Chillin' in the Caribbean--Part "Uno"

Kent and I wanted to take a vacation with Garrett and Tyler, so I did some research and decided on a week in Puerto Rico. We've lived overseas for so many years that we've not been south of the USA. Kent and I had a direct flight from DC and arrived Saturday night. Garrett came from Seattle, where he attended his friend's wedding in the Seattle Temple. Tyler came from Salt Lake City, since he's staying in Provo, working at BYU as a Conference Assistant. I found a two-bedroom vacation apartment that we rented for the week. Isn't this a fabulous shot of Kent and Tyler on the deck? Kent turned 53 our second night there, so we had the usual celebration. I'd brought the ingredients and aluminum pans in my suitcase to bake his birthday cake. The next evening we headed out to go kayaking in a bio-luminescent bay that "glowed in the dark" when the water is agitates. Caused by dino-flagelattes or something like that..... (go google it.) We felt very "Raiders of the Lost Ark"ish as we kayaked at night through the jungle.

It was hard to get a good shot in a moving kayak at night, so these aren't the best.

Our fourth day we went to Old Town San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. It very much had the feel of a 500 year old European City - which of course it is, except it is not in Europe.

The old Castle - was never lost by the Spanish over 400 years, until the US took it in the Spanish-American war. The fortifications were quite extensive.

Stay tuned for the wet, wild and wilderness of the rest of our Puerto Rican vacation.....