My husband booked a trip to the Dominican Republic, a beautiful country in the Caribbean, to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Everything on the flight was uneventful, but when we were leaving the plane, something blew into my eye.
It was quite painful, but I waited until we arrived at our hotel to look at it. When we got to our luxury suite, I immediately washed my eye with water. However, the next morning it wasn’t any better – it was red and painful and I couldn’t see anything from that eye.
We went down to the hotel lobby and the receptionist sent us to an eye doctor in Santo Domingo. The doctor cleaned my eye very carefully and gave me some eyewash to use. It was quite painful for the next two days but it finally returned to normal and I started to enjoy my holiday.
The third day of our holiday started well. The weather was beautiful and we stayed on the beach all day. We were having a great time. But that night, just as we were going to sleep, I felt something touch my leg. My husband said it was nothing. Then something touched his foot, too, and he asked if it was me. But it wasn’t!
He turned on the light and we saw a small snake at the bottom of the bed. It went into the bathroom and my husband quickly closed the bathroom door and called reception to tell them. Several minutes later, someone from the hotel arrived at our door. The man went into the bathroom, caught the snake, and called the cleaning staff to clean the bathroom.
It wasn’t a very nice experience, but the hotel staff were really helpful, and the manager gave us a free dinner and a larger room for the rest of our stay. And we didn’t see any more snakes!