Puerto Rico Trip: Our wonderful accomodations

I just can't.  Look at that water!  The sky!  Those waves!

Birthday balloons and our shoes.  :)

To the beach!

The above-ground cemetery is on the lower left.  The mountains and El Yunque Rainforest are in the background.

One of the resident kitties!  We named them Tortuga, Marmalade, and I can't remember the name of this little fellow.

Coral from the beach!

My last look before leaving, sniff.

Puerto Rico Trip: Birthday Piña Coladas

Gahhhhh this was the best.  So wonderful.

Sea urchin!

Puerto Rico Trip: The Food!

Mofongo from Bebos in San Juan: delicious.  Always delicious.  And they do a nifty thing with acid to denature garlic's raw taste and put it on evvveeerrrryyyytttthhhiiinnngg, and it's great.   

(see Serious Eats if you're curious in how this works!)

All of the fruit!

Delicious pastries!

Cream of plantain soup - kind of like mashed potato soup?  But plantainy?  From one of the kiosks.

Farmer's market goods!

Allll the piña coladas.

From El Rincon del Sabor: A full fish fillet with a sweet tomato sauce, beans, and rice (beans here are more of a bean soup, which was unexpected but delicious). 

Puerto Rico Trip: The Beach!

I can't get over how pretty it was on the beach here.  Just...stunning.