Thursday, December 28, 2017

New Years - 2018 - Day 1

New Years - 2018 - Day 1

The day started with the temperature below zero at our house at 3:30am when we got up. 

We quickly had breakfast, took showers and left for the airport at 4:30am for a 6:00am flight to Atlanta and then on to San Juan.

We knew the connections in Atlanta were going to be close and the schedule said there was a 49 minute time between arrival and departure.  Of course, they start boarding 30 minutes before.  So, the boarding was to begin at 9:01am and we were to arrive 2 concourses over at 9:02am.

When we were late by 29 minutes in taking off we thought we would never make connections – guess what – we made it.

Basically, we made it to the plane and about 5 – 10 minutes later they closed the door.

The flight to San Juan was 3 ½ hours so Ed watched Dunkirk and Barb slept.

After retrieving our luggage, we took a taxi to the hotel, except the car driver took us to the wrong one, adding about 30 minutes.  The neat thing was that we had a nice tour getting to the correct hotel.

You can for sure tell that there is a lot of hurricane damage; however, it was not as bad as we thought it would be.

After checking in we walked around to look at restaurants and on advice of the desk clerk went to a local place that he said he ate at.  No question, it was a local’s restaurant and we enjoyed it.  We had rice and beans, chicken in a fried plantain (banana) bowl and then another dish we don’t know what it was, but it was good.

After dinner we checked out the gym and went to our room to get a good night sleep.


Night from San Juan

In our living room of the hotel - ready to go out

Dinner - Rice and Beans at top, left is Chicken in a Plantain bowl with lettuce and on the right is Fried ??

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