Sandals Royal Caribbean

In May of 2008 me and Ashley went to Montego Bay Jamaica. We stayed at the Sandals Royal Caribbean Resort. I thought I would just Post a few photos to show how beautiful it is there. Sandals Royal Caribbean is a small resort with just over 100 rooms, so they have really good service. If you can afford it, I recommend going there on vacation. They have a private island with swim up bar, how many places have that in this world.

Welchs Homemade Wine

I recently started brewing my own wine after trying several bottles that others had made. I came across recipes for using Welchs frozen concentrate to make wine. I thought this was interesting and since most of Welchs Grapes are grown right here in Michigan I thought I would give it a try. Here is the recipe for Welchs Concord Grape Wine.

2 cans (11.5 oz) Welch's 100% frozen grape concentrate
1-1/4 lbs granulated sugar
2 tsp acid blend
1 tsp pectic enzyme
1 tsp yeast nutrient water to make 1 gallon
1 camden tablet
wine yeast

As with ALL recipe's the canned or fresh ingredients you use will differ in there sugar content so you MUST check starting SG before adding sugar amounts listed. The goal is a starting SG of 1.090 for alcohol content of 12%-13%. Bring 1 quart water to boil and dissolve the sugar in the water. Remove from heat and add frozen concentrate. Add additional water to make one gallon and pour into secondary. Add remaining ingredients except yeast. Cover loosely and set aside 24 hours. Add activated wine yeast and recover (I personally use an airlock). When active fermentation slows down (about 5 days), rack into seconday , top up and refit airlock. After additional 30 days, stabilize, sweeten if desired and rack into bottles.


I am almost to the Bottling stage and have to tell you that this recipe does make a really good tasting wine. Especially if you are not a fan of this stuffy store bought reds. This can also be adapted many different flavors of frozen concentrate.

Punta Cana

Well we decided it was time again to leave the great state of Michigan for somewhere warmer. Me and my wife just booked 6 days at the Barcelo Premium in Punta Cana Dominican Republic. From the pictures the beaches look almost identical to Lake Michgan, but the water is 80 degrees not 40! We booked all inclusive so we can just relax and drink and eat as much as we want. Here is a link to the resort http://www.barcelo.com . After going to Jamaica last year we thought we would try another Island. We are also hopeing to get up to mackinaw city this year also. There are Travel deals to everywhere, and i recommend you use Expedia if traveling out of country. They are by far the cheapest.