Arecibo

On Sunday we went with my mom (Andrew stayed to watch football) to visit Arecibo and the northern side of the island.  It was about a 2 hour drive, but we wanted to see some of the rest of Puerto Rico.  We also wanted to visit the Arecibo Observatory, a huge radio telescope which was made famous by Goldeneye and Contact.  





Ike climbing the many steps to get up to the observatory and museum.

That's a lot of stairs!

Dave playing with cool science stuff.

At the telescope.  It was huge!










After the observatory, we drove along the coast to get to cueva del indio.  Before we got there, we stopped at this beautiful beach to snap a couple of pictures.

The kids were not feeling the pictures!










Cueva del indio (cave of the indians? maybe...) was awesome!  Probably my favorite thing we did on the whole trip.  We paid $2 to park and then some guy told us to walk out to the red flag and we would see the cave.  This was the way things went a lot of times while we were in Puerto Rico!

And then we walked up to this!













Turns out the cave is "naturally lit" which just means there are tons of holes everywhere that a small child could fall into.  Yep, wasn't stressful for me at all.  :)  We decided not to go into the actual cave (the ladder down did not look all that sturdy), so I took some pictures and we wandered around for a little while.

Waiting as I took some pictures.

Cave drawings from the native islanders.

So beautiful!

Josh and Dave off exploring.

Probably not safe.  I had a kung-fu grip on his wrist most of the time.

View of the "arches".  I didn't really understand what the guy was saying about this, but it was pretty.







After the cave, we drove some more along the coast-where the road turned into a one lane street that went both ways of course.  And then we were back to being beach bums again.