FAY!

So we are welcomed back to florida with hurricane faye. It will be raining all day and the hurricane is supposed to hit tonight at 2 am! 

***Update - as it turns out Fay was only a tropical storm but she did dump 26" of rain on us in 3 days!

WE got back from puerto rico and i have more tales to tell but i need a high speed connection for that so it will have to wait.

Where to start! Today we went to visit some towns that Adam lived in as a missionary- Cabo Rojo, Sabana Grande and Naranjito.

Pictures of Ponce

Today was fun. I should have been blogging as i went but i was having too much fun. I guess my favorite part of today was swimming at la playa.

This is a picture of a lighthouse at the beach that we were swimming at.  It was beautiful there.  There were probably only about 100 people swimming in this little cove by the lighthouse.  The finest most beautiful sand I had ever seen and a fun little tide coming in.  It was fun to ride the waves.

Today we are going to Cabo Rojo. We are hoping to go to the luminescent bay and of course to get some good food.

Well, after all that fancy food-mahi mahi, steak, salad with passion fruit dressing- it would figure that I liked the rice, beans & tostone best

Now for dinner we stopped at the restaurante tias. It is pricy/fancy but youonly live once so we are going for it! I am going to try mahi mahi.

Went shopping today at the Ponce Mall. We thought that with the rain it was best to stay in ponce -they drive crazy here!

Rain, Rain Go Away

This is a video I took of us driving in the rain.  It rained so much in such a relatively small amount of time...I was just amazed.

We stopped at a panderia (bakery/eatery) for brunch. We got a sanwich that is reminescent of a panini to me. It was really good but huge! Yum!

Today we woke to rain. We even made good morning today for a tropical thunderstorm. Not rated a tropical storm but more rain than we see all year

Canepas

What might you ask is a canepa?  Well, Adam showed me first hand on our first day on our Puerto Rican adventure by pulling over on the side of the highway and buying some from a peddler.   He was sooooo excited to taste them again.  They were messy and took a little getting used to, but they were good!  

Here is a definition and description:

The canepa, quinepa, honeyberry or ginip  is a seasonal fruit available from June through September. A must-try for anyone unfamiliar with this delicious fruit, you pop the skin by biting it, then put the fruit in your mouth and suck the flesh off of the large seed. Due to their very short shelf life (a few days), you won't find them for sale in grocery stores but only by the side of the road.

We are sitting at an oceanside restaurant in Ponce and we are on a pier over the water. We just saw a stingray swim by-brown with white spots! It kinda looked like this stuffed toy->

Mobile Bloggin??? Who knew!

Testing, testing...is this thing on?  Totally awesome! I sent this from my cell phone!  So cool.  Check back and I will see if I can't figure out how to send pics so that I can post and blog during our vacation to Florida and especially pics from Puerto Rico!  So, so cool!