A somewhat wrap up of our trip...but there is more to come!!!

These posts are a little late in coming. We have been so busy the last 2 days that Dad has not had time to help me with them. The below post is from Saturday’s adventures and then Sunday’s post and then the flight home on Monday

So I first want to say Happy Mother’s Day to everyone. I gave Mommy a big hug and kiss to her first thing this morning.

So here is my typical day down here in Rincon. I get up about 6:30 in the morning and I am looking for my bottle. After drinking that down, I go back to bed until about 8am or so. I go with Mom and Dad down to the continental breakfast. I pass by the parrots, that are in cages and the lizards, that run free and have some waffles, lemon poundcake or some bagel with cream cheese. We then pack up the car for our daily adventures around the island.


So yesterday we packed up the car and drove down to the coast to Mayaguez, Cabo Roja, Saint Germain, Lajas, Boqueron and La Parguera. We stopped at our new favorite roadside place and got sandwiches and that rice/green chili/stew combo. We then headed down and had lunch at the InterAmerican University in San Germain. While having lunch there, the guards locked the front gate. We had to find them driving around on campus and show us the way out. We then stopped at this cemetery. All the plots are above ground and some of them were really old. One was dated 1893.

We were going to take a night trip at Phosphorescent Bay. It is this really cool place where at night, the tiny macrobiotic organisms glow in the dark when the water it churned up. But we meet this loco damas (crazy lady) at the beach and she took us around Boqueron and Daddy ate oysters and drank beer with her. We walked awhile and saw the street side shops and bars and had dinner at another street side place. We had pollo and carne empadillas, fritos and a coke. We were all so tired that we ended up driving home.

On Sunday we got up real early, 730am and headed down to breakfast. Mommy had booked us a snorkeling trip down at the dive shop. We went out on a 25 foot catamaran with some other nice people from South Carolina and Toronto Canada. Captain Brian even let me bring my crab on board the boat. We went about 4 miles off the coast to the Tres Palmas reef and went snorkeling We saw all kinds of different coral and some really cool fishes. Mom and Dad took lots of pictures with their underwater camera and we should have them back in about a week or so. After that we had lunch on the front “trampolines” and cruised around for the next 2 hours of so. I had my superhero Speedo suit on. It has built in floatation and makes me look really big and strong.

We also forgot to reapply sunscreen and all three of us have some red to our normally white bodies. My forearms are a little burnt, Mom got her legs and Dad got his shoulders. We got some aloe vera lotion and everything is good once again.

We finally made it down to the glow in the dark bay. We got on the 2 story boat that has a couple of glass bottoms and made the 20 minute trip to the bay. We get there and the captain says something in Spanish but I don’t see anything glowing in the dark. Then another man comes around with a bucket of water and Mom has to chase him down and she grabs a handful of water. We were then able to see them glow. To me, it was a waste of money…..we barely saw it glow and everyone on the boat was really noisy and it was not fun. That was the first time, the whole trip, that Mom and Dad made a bad choice in something to do….oh well.

So we have left Rincon and made the drive back up to San Juan. We got to the airport and had lunch at McDonalds since we were early and did not want to stop on the drive up. I have now found Ketchup…..and it is good!!!! I like to dip my French fries (pomme frites, frittatas) and lick it off and then dip again. Mom makes sure that I have my own dipping cup since I like to double dip and then eat the fries.

Our flight back to Miami was ok. I did not take a nap so I terrorized Mom and Dad the entire time. I pulled keys of the laptop when Dad would not let me type. I was just not having fun and cried and screamed a lot. I was the first time that I have not been good on the plane and Mom and Dad were not happy….but what can I do, I have been in cars, boats, planes, my floatie crab among other things and I am ready to run around and play again…..I cant wait to get home and play with my dogs and sleep in my own bed.

On the ride home from Miami, I was still a terror. But the nice man on the airplane, Reggie, let me work with him. We handed out napkins, drinks, cups and food. We even got to wear some really cool hats while doing it. Everyone than really liked me!!!

Dad was finally able to get his special project done. I will work on that later in the week. I will also be posting a bunch of photos that we took on our trip in the next week or so.
Since there is no free internet at MIA, I will have to do this when I get home. Bye for now.