I got Cabareted

Check out these pictures of Cabarete, Dominican Republic where I was last week.



FYI ~ These pictures are from Google images.



Our visit to Cabarete unleashed a few days of circumstances and incidences that can only be described as character building experiences. We woke up the day after we arrived only to find that someone had been in our room while we were sleeping. We walked downstairs and asked the bar tender if he saw anyone go upstairs to the rooms last night. He told us that he saw a group of prostitutes go up there late at night. He just figured that Darren and I were….well you know. Little did he know and soon the next day did we all learn that those women broke into our room and stole multiple items from us. Darren and I would eventually learn that my laptop, my digital camera, his digital camcorder and my cell phone were missing. Adding insult to injury they also stole my traveling baseball cap. It is a great hat and I am sure that it will bring them more business, but did you really need to take it. Luckily they did not take our passports.

Darren and I immediately found alternative means of housing for the following night. We then went back to the bar where the bartender saw people going up into our room. Unfortunately, he did not remember what they looked like but he did see someone he knows talking with them. So like Sherlock Holmes and Watson we set out to try and retrieve our items. We eventually found this woman and told her this, “Look we know you know who took our things. We want all our stuff back and will pay the thieves $200 and you $60 if we get them back.” She definitely took interest in this offer. Although, even with her enthusiasm our attempt would turn out to be fruitless in the long-run, however we hung out for two more days to see what happened. It turns out that these two days would continue to be unwanted icing on a “shit happens” cake.

Darren and I had a great time initially riding the two scooters we rented to get around town and to our new hotel for the night. However, in the rain on the night after the robbery I had a flat tire on the ride back to our room. Then the next day after I got the tire fixed there were two successive accidents that Darren got into and I had to watch. Thankfully he is okay and got off with just some scrapes and bruises. He would be sore for the next few days but heal up fast. Needless to say Cabarete was getting the best of us and while we wanted to leave we also wanted our stuff back.

Darren is a champ and I am lucky to somehow find the best of any situation. As things continued to occur we both remained in high spirits. We recognized that the way things were going was less than ideal, and for some reason things just kept happening to us. However, we knew that we could not change what had happened. The best thing to do was to think about all that had happened and learn from it.

The last night we were there we really hoped that we would get our stuff back. Darren ended up playing in a local Reggae band that night. This is exactly what he needed and he played a great show. There was another trumpet player in the band, yet it was crystal clear that Darren was much better. While he was winning the trumpet battle I met some really great Russians, and spent the night mending cold war scars. We both were happy at the end of the night. Even though we determined that there was no way that we were ever going to get what we hoped for.

The morning of last day in Cabarete we could not leave fast enough….after breakfast that is. The town is amazing with great people, food and nice tourists from around the globe. However, for some reason this just was not our trip. I will return to Cabarete one day and it will be a much better visit!


Add this one to your vocabulary.
Cabareted

- Dictionary results from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cabareted
cab•a•ret

–noun

1. a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show.
2. a café that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature.
3. a floor show consisting of such entertainment: The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret.
4. a form of theatrical entertainment, consisting mainly of political satire in the form of skits, songs, and improvisations:an actress whose credits include cabaret, TV, and dinner theater.
5. a decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced esp. in the 18th century.
6. Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors.
–verb (used without object)
7. to attend or frequent cabarets.
8. to have reoccurring demoralizing incidences take place over a series of days leading to one great night that while highly enjoyable does not negate the previous days hardships.

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Origin:
1625–35; < F: tap-room, MF dial. (Picard or Walloon) < MD, denasalized var. of cambret, cameret < Picard camberete small room (c. F chambrette; see chamber, -ette)

—Synonyms
2. nightclub, supper club, club.

Used in a sentence:
Rob and Darren got Cabareted in Cabarete.