Back - and you never knew I was gone!

And I'm sure the title is true. I was going to throw a quick blog up last week but ended up getting swamped and didn't have time to blog about vacation.

But I just got home after 6 days in the Dominican Republic. I stayed in an all-inclusive resort in Punta Cana and left the resort only once the whole trip, and that was for about two hours for souvenir shopping. Overall I had a blast - lots of swimming and lounging on the beach, and I went with my wife and four of our close friends so it was like college, partying all day and staying up all night drinking. Also a side benefit of being in a foreign country with many foreign tourists: topless hotties everywhere. The downside: there were twice as many women I'd prefer never to see topless.

And somehow, I'm not sure exactly how, I drank the water. It could have been in the ice in one of the frozen drinks, or maybe I wasn't careful enough taking a shower - but somehow I ingested just enough to wake up yesterday morning with "that" bug. I'll spare you the details - the most prevalent symptom ain't pretty. Fortunately it came up late enough in the trip that it didn't really affect things.

Anyway I'm tired as hell and I have to go back to work tomorrow so I'll wrap it up. I have way too many drunken pictures that require a lot of explaining so I'll just leave you with one of the nicer pics from the trip. (The woman lying down sunbathing to the left of the two guys... yeah, she's topless).