First Days in Puerto Rico

So we are back from the heat, just in time to experience some snow flurries!  Glad we got some sun to help fortify us for the long winter ahead  :)  Of course, I have a ton of pictures from our travels, so I am going to break it down and do a couple days at a time.

We took off from Detroit bright and early on Tuesday.  Had great flights again from Spirit (they get a bad rap, but we have only had good experiences with them!).  A bit of a layover in Fort Lauderdale, and then we were off to San Juan.  Not a great start to the trip-it was raining when we got there!  And one of our bags was super late-so late that I thought that it was lost, but it ended up coming about 30 minutes after the rest of our stuff!





Riding in the plane!










Headed to Luquillo to see my mom and Andrew and check out our condo.  The area we stayed in was extremely shady looking-rundown buildings, stray dogs, etc. but it never seemed unsafe.  We were right on the beach and had a great view from our balcony.

Looking left off the balcony.










That first day we just hung out and got some groceries for the rest of the trip.  Wednesday we woke up to more rain (????) which we waited out and then went on to Old San Juan.  First we had lunch at a cute place right next to El Morro (the bigger of the two forts in San Juan).  After lunch, Josh dropped his phone and busted it, which led to a week of trying to figure out a new phone for him!  Turns out there isn't a Verizon store on the island (and why would there be?! haha) so it was quite a chore figuring out something for him to use for the remainder of our trip.  We powered along after the phone incident, and went over to the fort to walk around.

Playing in a courtyard by the restaurant.  Also where Josh dropped his phone.

Dave with the fort in the distance.

On one of the lookout wings.

View from the fort.

Everyone was posing for pictures at this spot so we had to do it too!

Ike was not happy to be stuck in the stroller for the majority of the visit...wasn't exactly safe for a toddler!!







We went to the beach after we got back to our condo.  The beach we were at was called La Pared and was more of a surfing beach so it was kinda rough.  The kids were fine in it though and it was really cool to see the surfers out catching waves!

The little spots are all surfers.















Ike loves the beach!!!

Went down to the local place by our condo that night.  They had the Pacers game on!














Sunrise the next morning.











Thursday dawned a beautiful day and we were off to Fajardo to take a boat/snorkel tour!