This is the day we left Arecibo, which made me sad. Yeah, we were going to San Juan, with woring internet and chichi restaurants, but it meant saying goodbye to my
animal friends and Salitre. Once again, we took WAY too many pictures, but there's no good place
to break this set in half, so it's going to be a loooooooong page.
As usual, pics taken on Michelle or Karen's camera will have an M or K in front of them.
Firstly, I said goodbye to my little neighbor dog friend, who always seemed so lonely.
I had actually bought a box of dog treats for him and he didn't like them much, so we had leftovers. The night before we actually made arrangements with
Elizabeth from Salitre and she said we could drop the dog treats off with the kitchen staff. She would
make sure the local dogs (including the one I loved so much ^_^) got the dog treats. So between Elizabeth and me, my dog treats didn't go wasted. Yay Elizabeth!!
Michelle made sure to say goodbye to the horse across the street...
(M)
Goodbye awesome little house on the beach *sob*
This is a weird picture, I know, but it's a bit of graffiti I saw in San Juan. I just thought it was an awesome little piece of
impromptu art, and I wanted a copy, possibly so I could learn to draw it...
We headed over to El Canario by the Lagoon, but found out we couldn't check in yet. Here's a shot of the place anyways...
...more lobby.
Outside...
Everyone was hungry, so we decided to stop the first place we found that seemed halfway decent. Turned out it was
a Sizzler. I was a little hesitant, but everyone else agreed, so I didn't make waves.
Luckily, since I was in NO mood for eating boring old American food while still on vacation, they actually had an area of the salad bar
set aside for Criollo food (traditional PR dishes). Between hitting pretty much ONLY the criollo area and having me a Medalla Light,
I was able to meet my high food standards.
Yes, I'm very picky.
Here's a movie of the view we had of one of the countless marinas in the area...
I also got a shot of Condado, which is a world famous beach that we were near. We didn't have time to go, but I wanted to remember it.
After this, we headed back and checked into our rooms. I did a quck bedbug check and decided all was cool.
We immediately pulled out our laptops and tried to make up a little for the weeklong
backlog of not having the internet we were promised in Arecibo.
See that little table there? That's where
I made this post!
I also made a quick movie of the view from our balcony.
If I was going to break up the page, this is where the break would go. This page doesn't seem long enough, though. So if you want a break yourself on looking
at these pictures, this is the time to take it. After this, we're taxiing in to Old San Juan.
Ready??
Here we go...
I actually took about 10 times as many pictures as I'm showing here, including several of a cruise ship in port, the streets blocked off due to some
bike race or something, and other neatnesses, but most didn't turn out okay. Here's one that did, though...
We debarked our taxi in Old San Juan and began shutterbugging our little touristey selves insensate.
