Another beautiful day in San Juan – 88 and clear when we
woke up.
We had breakfast with Tim and Barb and then while Tim stayed
at the hotel to work, the three of us went on a driving tour of Puerto Rico.
We headed south to the city of Ponce, the second largest
city on the island. The route took us
over the “mountains” in the center of the island and the road was very, very
winding but it was fun. Also, the
scenery was awesome with all the houses built on the sides of the mountains.
We also traveled thru the town at the highest point on the
island. Most of the homes were built
right on a ridge with maybe 10’ of back yard.
After getting to Ponce and heading north back towards San
Juan, we found a very small city with a great center square and so we parked to
walk around. We walked into a church
which turned out to be Baptist and watched some kids practice singing and the
kids and adults welcomed us to visit. One
of them suggested a local restaurant so we went there for lunch and it was
great. Great food, great service and a
great setting.
After we left the restaurant, we travelled down the mountain
in a major rain storm so we had to go very, very slow.
We finally made it back to San Juan at 5:00pm after driving
lots of miles all day, but it was fun.
We changed for dinner and Barb and Tim came up to our room
to have Champaign on our balcony.
Then we went to a local restaurant that we had found a
couple of days ago to have a wonderful 2 ½ hour dinner.
After dinner we walked back to the hotel and played a
session in the casino where Barb lost a little and Ed won so we are up a little
bit after playing 4 days n San Juan – a great start.
We then packed to be ready tomorrow to head to the ship
after going to a local Catholic church a few blocks away.
Night from San Juan and tomorrow it will be from the ship –
The Freedom Of The Seas.
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| A house on the edge of a ridge |
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| Lunch - all local, all freashly made |
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| The Baptist Church in town |
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| It really is a dollar store!! |
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| Inside the dollar store |
