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
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| In our living room of the hotel - ready to go out |
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| Dinner - Rice and Beans at top, left is Chicken in a Plantain bowl with lettuce and on the right is Fried ?? |
