Rum, Rainforests, Casino, and Beaches...The makings of an awesome vacation

Well, I'm back from San Juan. And trying really hard to Wish myself back there.

The first day we got in and walked for about two hours down the beach to a nice restaurant, and then went to bed early since we had woken up at 5am. The only problem was that our room was only 2 floors directly above the live "san juan music", and it felt like our room was smack dab in the middle of the 9:30 club. The next morning we requested a room change. To our surprise we got moved to the club level suite with a ocean view and a sleep number bed and two luxurious rooms. I like sleep number 35 while Peter likes 45 but generally didn't seem to care anyway.

The next major thing we Did was go on a tour of the Bacardi factory. It was pretty cool, and came with two free drinks each, so i got to try the Bacardi flavors I had been wanting to try :) The factory is on this beautiful estate thing that you have to take a boat to get to so its really beautiful.

We then Rented a car and drove to the El Yunque rain forest. I figured we'd drive around and stop and get out and walk for like 15 minutes and then drive on...peter had another idea, and since Bacardi factory was what i chose, i felt like i should do what he wanted to do on this day...so we drove to one of the first stops. Got out, and Hiked up a 2 mile hill for 2 hours (very steep and rocky) and then hiked back down another 2 hours. My legs are still tired today. I must say, It was beautiful for most of the hike. Until the clouds rolled in and it rained. When we reached the summit it was so cloudy we could only see 10 ft in front of us. Thats ok b/c it was kinda cool to get rained on in the rain forest.

We spent the remainder of our trip split between the beach, shopping in old san juan, exploring the forts in old san juan, The Casinos, and sipping on pina coladas :)

It was an amazing vacation, and I'm sad to be back...and very burnt i might add.

San Juan Tomorrow!

We leave bright and early tomorrow to fly to San Juan. I cant wait. Which reminds me I need to check in online! this means there will be no new blogs next week. Sorry :( But you can be sure I'll be back the following week :)

If you've been to San Juan and want to recommend anything to do there leave me a comment :) Thanks!

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day everyone!

Leave a comment and let me know what you are doing for the day.

I get to try a new restaurant sette bello tonight (http://www.settebellorestaurant.com/) A couple weeks ago I checked out the menu and figured out what I want, so I wont have a disaster like the previously mentioned Thai restaurant.

Lets hope nothing comes up at work today and I get to leave a little early :)

Two days till San Juan on sat!

Thai Food is Dumb

I hate Thai food. I always have, and I always will. Lately I've been trying really hard to give it a chance. I found that I can usually find something on the menu that isnt very thai and that I can deal with. Like fried rice, or just a plate of veggies (although the sauce on the veggies is gross).

Well last night I got peer pressured into trying the green curry.

I hate spicy food.

We asked for it to be not spicy, and another veggie dish was ordered in case i didn't like mine. The only problem is that the other dish was Pad Thai...I hate Pad Thai. The noodles are gross and nasty.

Well not to my surprise at all the green curry was too spicy, and the pad thai was rubbery and nasty.

Next time I'm going with the rice.

Voting is lame

So Yesterday I nearly forgot to vote...that is until facebook reminded me before I left for work. So I walked across the street and got in line to vote. The line didnt look too bad, and it was only 8am so I should be in and out and on time to work, right? WRONG! The line moved about as slow as molasses in the winter in negative 12 degree weather.

I finally got near the front and saw the set up. There were 3 voting booths. Two registration tables, each with one person at it. And one guy just making sure everything was going smoothly. Well the one guy yelled in a loud booming voice to everyone as they came in "are you a democrat or a republican?". This slowed down the line because everyone had to stop and respond. Alternately they could have taped up a sign on each table so people could figure it out themselves.

There were no republicans, so everyone in line was waiting for one table, with one person registering. That meant only one person could vote at a time. What a disaster! I finally cast my vote and left over an hour after I had gotten there.

So much for getting to work on time.

White Boards

My boss has been giving me and my officemates a hard time about not having any white boards up so he cant draw diagrams to explain problems to us, so we finally got two posted in our office, but nothing on them yet.

One day I asked jim "will you draw me a stegosaurus?"...just randomly out of the blue (inspired by le petit prince's "dessine-moi un mouton s'il vous plait")...who knew that this was the exact right thing to ask him to draw. I have never seen a better stegosaurus! Clearly Jim has that problem that 8% of children have where they just cant stop drawing dinosaurs.

we decided to randomly ask other people to draw specific thing for us and its turned out awesome. We ended up with an additional Ewok, cape and all, with a shirt that said "ho's before bros", a pepsi machine, some birds, and some greenery so the dino and ewok could eat to survive.

Sometimes you gotta have fun with what you are given at work.

Success!

The Feb party was a lot of fun. We totally filled up grand central. Weather people were coming to see me, or for the 3 dollar drinks...I don't know, But thanks to anyone that came and made it as much fun as it was :) I'll try and post some pictures tonight or something so look out for it.

Also I attempted to test the limits of how many people could stay in my apt with NYC and Baltimore friends, but I think next time I can fit more :)