So this is the Caribbean

Here are some pictures from my 3-month stay in Puerto Rico. Unlike my sister Stacy, I do not take a lot of pictures, so these will have to do. Even when I do take pictures, I don't get them developed. It's so expensive to get pictures developed! So I end up just storing them on my camera until I finally do something with them (thank goodness for the blog). Because I keep all my old photos on my camera, I have about 899 pictures hanging around on my memory card. (Some pictures are even from about 3 years ago, but I would never ever admit that.) Disfruta! (Enjoy!)

This is when the electricity in the neighborhood went out. I think it was out for about an hour. It happens.

The Convention Center that was way over budget.
A picture I snapped of our backyard.
The object that no one really understands. A sewer pipe/drain? The pelicans hang out on top of it.
The palm trees in my backyard.
My dad blowing out the awesome candles I put on stilts in the awesome German Chocolate cake I made for his birthday. You want that recipe--trust me.

Uncle Eric posing . . . with the pigeons? in Old San Juan.
My aunts, uncles, and me in Old San Juan! The fountain has no water in it! Yay San Juan.
Just a pretty plant on the highway exit.
A mural of the Taíno Indians. It's painted on an underpass. These Indians were already here when Columbus came to Puerto Rico in 1493.
Capitol Building. Don't quote me on that.

Building where the movie The Assassin was filmed. Have I seen that movie? No.
El Morro Fort from the 16th Century.
I can't remember.
I just snap the pictures--I don't really listen. Ok, I do, but I have a bad memory.
Our tour guide playing the cuatro (guitar/banjo-like instrument popular in PR).

Taken while riding on the Duck Tours. Here we are a duck in the water.
El Morro
A view from the rear of the Governor's Mansion.

This is where the cruise liners dock and all the tourists unload to walk the streets of Old San Juan.
The Duck Tours--here we are a duck on land.


The Hamburger. Clever! I learned that "hamburger" in Spanish is "hamburguesa."

Grandma and the boys.
Grandma getting pushed up the hill at El Morro.
El Morro

I blend in well with the cannon balls.

Here I am attempting a tricky stunt. I wanted to do the splits between the two walls. My mom encouraged me to do it (at my expense!), and I failed miserably. I am not the flexible gal I used to be.
Oww. Yelping in pain by this point. Mom: "The camera says memory full." Katy: "You've gotta be kidding me! Delete something!" Mom: "How do I do that?" Katy: "Forget i . . . I think I just pulled something."

Mom: "Did you have hair in your face because it sure was in mine." Click on that puppy to get a closer look.



Siblings at Lago de Dos Bocas. (Two Mouths Lake)

Grandma and her children.

We have our very own Jurassic Park here in Puerto Rico.
You have to take a ferry to get to the restaurant.

Arecibo. This is the largest "radio receiver" something rather, aka satellite. In the movie Contact. "I'm ok to go. I'm ok to go. I'm ok to go."

The sweet shoes you have to wear to walk on the satellite dish.

Taken from my living-room window. It's a cruise liner at night.
Lots and lots of kites! The kiteboarders owned the water that day.

I took this picture solely for the moon.