Two weeks ago we were waking up to sun-filled mornings and roosters crowing. Today we're snuggled under our down comforter using the 80lbs. dog as a giant hot-water bottle and wishing (at least I am) that we had a snow blower to remove the 12 inches of snow from our driveway.
Ah well...let's dream about Puerto Rico!
This was the view from our hotel balcony. The owner of the hotel (John, a lovely man from New Jersey) said that you can normally see the whales frolicking in the warm waters from our balcony. Unfortunately the frolicking whales had not yet arrived because it had been a warm winter along the East Coast of the US.
We stayed in Rincon, which is on the west coast of the island. People come to Rincon to surf, unless you're us, in which case you come to watch the surfers while laying on the beach.
The frustrating thing about Puerto Rico was the traffic. It's a populated little island and you must have a car to get around. We spent an unfortunate amount of time in the car stuck in traffic.
Scott was our trusty driver, deftly negotiating the narrow mountain roads filled with switchbacks and on-coming traffic.
While Jen was our chief navigator, trying to get us from point A to point B with less than helpful tourist maps (sometimes she would take a break from the map reading).
We were always very happy to arrive at our destinations. We traveled to Ponce and Arecibo.
Ponce had just kick-off their annual Carnival celebration which is similar to Mardi Gras, but without the flashing, drinking and beads. This year's theme was New York, New York.
Here masked creatures dance in front of the Manhattan skyline.
In Arecibo we visited the Arecibo Observatory, home of to the world's largest radio telescope. It was the one featured in the Jodi Foster movie Contact.
The bulk of our time was spent reading...
eating....
and drinking.
Good times... good times.
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