Puerto Rico

When I have a flight, I try to sit as close to the front desk as possible, just in case they say they need someone to give up their seat for a flight voucher. I've sprinted to the counter many times, but on the way home from Thanksgiving last year was the first time they needed my seat.  Landon left me in ATL because he had to get to the hospital. I missed the first half of a final---but there are more important things in life :)

So one day I decided Landon and I should go to Puerto Rico for his spring break with my voucher. I bought our flights and forwarded the confirmation to his email. He was pleasantly surprised.

We called the trip a babymoon, but I think that implies that we are having one last hoorah before the baby comes and we are trapped in our apartment forever--which I do not foresee happening.

Here are some pictures and maybe a few stories...

We rented a girls apartment on the eastern side of the island in the hopes that we could get away from the super touristy areas and for the most part it worked! Check out this parking spot.

See how there is no one on this beautiful beach? Well it's kind of an interesting story. We lined up 2 hours early to take a 1 hour ferry ride to the island of Culebra. So did a LOT of other people. When it appeared as though we wouldn't be making the cut. The security man running the line told me to go to the front because I'm pregnant. woot woot. After getting our tickets he sent us ahead of all of the other people to a very short line to get on the ferry which I learned was for senior citizens, people with handicaps, people with infants, and pregnant women. It was awesome. They loaded our line first on a huge cargo ferry, then the captain said the seas were too rough and we needed to leave right then. We thought we scored--until 10 minutes into the trip they started distributing barf bags to everyone. Yeah, you could say the seas were pretty rough. That crowd was the saddest sight I'd ever seen. I was dying, but all I could do was pray for the puking parents, holding their puking infants and thank the Lord that mine was safely inside me at the moment. Moral of the story - we had one of the most beautiful beaches in the world all to ourselves. And the ride back was pretty nice :)

flamenco beach

saw lots of fishies, sea turtles, and sting rays

a peaceful ferry ride home. thank the heavens above.

Hiking at El Yunque National Forest. 

he is such a model. not even trying.

The last two days we headed back to Old San Juan and visited some historic sites like Castillo de San Crisobal. We were the first people to arrive at this lovely historic site so we got to roam around freely and do all sorts of weird stuff - as featured in the photo below. The ticket man said it was 'national parks week' and we got in free. Score.

I may have had a bit too much salty food and walking in a short amount of time. Time to put these babies up.

Overall, I'd say Puerto Rico is a pretty lovely place!