Puerto Rico

Our Trip to Puerto Rico was fabulous! We were able to spend alot of time with Miguels Family. My favorite part of visiting is always the beach! Oh how I love the Beach! But it was just our luck that we had a hurricane pass about 100 miles off shore! So we were lucky enough to get a lot of rain. That ment no beach for us. We did loose electricity for a couple of hours, it kept going on and off, it was rather annoying, so Miguels mom had some sleeping pills that we all took so we could sleep though the power outage! All and all our trip was more of a relaxing trip. We slept alot and took nice long naps during the day! We came back home nice and refreshed.

The first day we were there it was sunny (the only day). Miguels friend took us to this nice resort in the mountains that had a nice pool. We spent the whole day swimming. It was alot of fun.

We loved the way this wall looked and I loved the flowers....so we had to get a picture.

This picture is from the "power outage" It was really pitch dark, I just have an amazing flash on my camera

We did some shopping in Old San Juan. Which is one of my favorite things to do. The streets are old and the building are so neat. I love it. We went into this one store only to find this cute little pug! Well he is so ugly he's cute.

As we were walking around we found this great little resturant, I needed to use the bathroom (due to a not so fun bladder infection) so we stopped and they gave me a nice big glass of cranberry juice.

As we were walking around San Juan we kept seeing this guy, he would lean against a building and start to fall asleep, and just when we thought he would fall over he would wake up and move. We found him again on the way to our car...sleeping like this...he was a bit of a crack head...poor guy!

We also got a chance to go up to the "campo" which is what they call his grandparents house in the mountains. It is so amazing up there. It is also one of my favorite things to do. You can see the whole city of Cayey up there.

We picked grapefruits and mangos and wild berries off the trees and ate them. We also went avocado hunting and filled a bag up to take home. His grandparents are amazing and I just love them so much. I found myself getting emotional when I was saying goodbye to his grandma, she is such a sweet lady with the kindest heart. I only wish we lived closer to them.

I have officaly turned the big 26! I celebrated my B-Day in Puerto Rico! it was a great day! We did some more shopping in Old San Juan, where we found the "Home of the first Pina Colada" it was nothing to write home about but it was still good!

We also had a great lunch with Maria at this beautiful place in the mountains.

And no, I may look pregnant in this picture...but i am not!

Later that night Maria and her friend Raul surprised me with a cake and presents (we opened the presents that morning, cake came later!) They sang to me in english and spanish. I had no idea! Miguel knew and apparently had planned the whole thing, they all made my day so special.

We also took and day and spend it with Miguels dad. Miguel Sr. took us shopping at the hugest outlet mall ever! He bought miguel and I some shoes, It was a good day.

It was such a great vacation and much needed. I can offically say we are NOT glad to be home. The second we pulled back into the Valley we both said "wow this place really sucks"

"Home Crap Home"

Since being home I have started to do Rosetta Stone to learn spanish. It is coming along slowly and it gets discouraging at times. But I will speak it before we go back for another visit! It's hard being the only one that doesn't know what is going on the majority of the time!

We are already counting the hours to our next visit!!