There is so much to say about the cruise. There were a lot if hiccups along the way but it was a great time and it was good to see family again. The last time I saw everyone was under different circumstances … It was a grandmother’s funeral.
Anyway, I’m not going to say much about the last week right now but will be periodically posting stories and pics about the experience.
Yesterday we got off the boat around 11:00. My mom — who never got her luggage — went to a hotel with my aunt while others tried to find a tour guide to check out the city. We ended up finding a guy that dropped some of us off at the hotel where my mom is at so we could go to a near by beach (pictured below) while the rest took the tour. It worked out perfectly because the bus was big enough to hold all the luggage so we didn’t have to cart it around. I ended up deciding to not take the tour and stopped off at the beach. My mom was there, I had yet to checkout the beaches in PR and I was supposed to meet up with my couch surfer host soon.
We hung out at the beach for a while and then decided to get Puerto Rican food. Sadly the timing was a little off and the tour bus got back to the hotel just as we put our order in. We waited for a good 25 minutes before it was ready. I ordered arroz com pollo and jugo de acerola and it all worth the wait.
Soon afterwards, I met up with Estela, my couch surfing host, and her aun Mariat. We had more Puerto Rican and talk a lot about her experiences and why she thought Puerto Rico was like no other place on earth! Hah!
When it got later, we dropped Maria off and Estela showed me around Loíza. She is really nice and more then helpful. Apparently, it is really packed there on Sunday nights. I had a “arcapulia” (I know I’m spelling that wrong!!) which I liked and danced merengue since I would have embarassed her and myself if we danced salsa!!
Oh, and also we stopped at this place for a meeting called Open House. It’s not really a church meeting, bit more of a diaologe about religion and social matters. There was an interesting vibe there and I liked it.
Well, today Im off to the rainforest. It’ll be a self guided tour, but let’s hope and pray that I make it out well! Haha, not even sure how im gettibg back but everything will be fine.
