Today we waited around for my dad to come home. We ended up taking a walk down to Ballaja, a museum, i wanted to see their Taino Exhibition but we rain into a fountain that kids run through so the kids ended up getting wet and we didn't make it to the museum. We had hotdogs from a cart and Piraguas.
I'm planning on making it inside the museum tomorrow then the kids can play in the fountain.
3 more days till Sunday!!! Whoohoooo.
We hit the malls these last few days. First day we went to Plaza las Americas, a huge mall. I bought some clothes and let the kids go to KB Toys. Then we hit the food court for lunch.
The next day we went to San Patricio Mall. Then came home.
It is still so hot. What i wouldn't give for a sudden temperature drop.
Another visit to the beach. The girl loves to snorkel and is obsessed with catching a fish with her bare hands. We were there for a few hours.
The morning was spent doing errands and we had lunch at Pizzeria Uno. Love that place. The kids got to make their own pizzas at the table and then they took them back and cooked them up for them.
It's so hot here!!! Can't wait till sunday.
This morning we went to church. After church we went to breakfast to La Bombonera. We walked over to the Plaza de Armas and ran into some relatives of my mom's. We talked for awhile and fed the pigeons.
Afterwards we left for Arecibo Lighthouse and Park. The had some Taino things, and Christopher Columbus' Ships. There was a Pirate Ship, the Lighthouse, and a Play Area with swings and slides. The kids had a great time and it was nice to be able to let them run around without worrying too much.
On the way back we stopped at Pollo Tropical and had dinner. I love Pollo Tropical and have missed eating there since we moved from Miami. Afterwards we stopped by some friends house. The daughter, Vanessa, is moving to Los Angeles with her daughter to try the whole acting thing. She has a good chance since she's already been in an all girls singing group that's toured the world.
Tomorrow we might hit the Beach again.
Today my mom and I went off to Wonderpark with the kids. It's an indoor play area with video games and rides. They spent a few hours playing games and riding roller coasters, pirate ships, and bumper cars. It was nice to be inside in Air Conditioning.
After that we left to visit my grandmothers cousins, on the way there the Check Engine Light came on in the car so we turned around and changed cars. After the visit we came back to Old San Juan and were lucky to find parking spaces.
Tomorrow the plan is to go to El Yunque. I can't wait for the hubby to get down here so we can get out of the parents place, i need air conditioning.
This morning i got to go to La Bombonera for breakfast. It's this old little restaurant that my grandfather used to go to all the time. Afterwards we walked down to El Parque de Las Palomas, Pigeon Park. We took a bag of rice and fed the pigeons. There are hundreds of them and they are so used to being fed that they will sit on your arms, shoulders and heads so that you'll feed them.
When the bag of rice was done we walked up the El Museo del Niño, the childrens museum. It was a nice little museum with lots of interactive things for kids to play with. We stayed there for about an hour, then headed across the street to the San Juan Cathedral. We walked around and saw the statues and Stained glass windows. On the way back to the grandparents place it started raining on us, we got soaked.
We spent the afternoon in the apartment, and around 6 went to the car shop and picked up the borrowed car. When i got back walked down to the Ben & Jerry's and had some ice cream.
Not a bad day overall.
We left early and went to The Camuy Caves, the third largest underground river and cave system in the world. We took a trolley down some 500 feet into a sinkhole seeing all the plants and trees that flourish in the moist damp air. At the bottom of the sinkhole our tour guide took us into the cave. It was dark and deliciously cool compared to the outside temperature. He pointed out different structures inside, and explained that an inch of a stalactite would take hundreds of years to be created. The water trickled down the sides and sometimes dropped on us. We saw bats flying around, plus the river almost 200 feet below. It was very cool. We went to a different area that is open to the outside at the top, the light shines down and there are waterfalls on the sides. After visiting that cave we got back into the trolley to go to another sinkhole. It was big enought to fit the El Morro Fort inside of it.
After leaving the caves we took the scenic rout to Utuado by way of Lares. The road was curvy the entire way. Almost like a roller coaster with blind curves going up and down. The lane barely big enough to fit 2 cars and people are passing you. It was a bit scary. We made it to El Parque Ceremonial Indigeno de Caguana, and i was a bit dissapointed. There was no one available to give the tour in English. The kids had no interest in listening to someone that they didn't understand so it was us listening then translating quickly before he moved up to the next thing. The rocks with the petroglyphs were worn down and barely visible. The guide then kept reiterating that none of the Bohios were original, they were just what the archeologists thought might have been and it was just a dissapointing visit.
We left Caguana and noticed that the battery light in the car we had borrowed, for me to use, was on. The entire 30 minute trip was downhill and even more steep,blind curves. The air conditioner died halfway down, and when we finally got to the bottom of the road into the intersection to get back to civilization, the car died. So there we are hot, sweaty, and stuck in and intersection in the middle of nowhere.
One and a half hour later the tow truck arrives to tow the car and us back to San Juan, 80 miles away. The five of us squeezed into the back seat of a tow truck cabin. The kids fell asleep and after 2 hours we finally got dropped off in Old San Juan. It was the end of another fantabulous adventure.
Can't wait to see what's in store today.
