Puerto Rico in 7 days - Day 2

Today is Chris and I's 15th wedding anniversary. I am very blessed to be able to share my life with such an adventurous and humble spirit. I love that he likes to try new things and is able to see the good in everyone. He is a great dad to our girls and he works hard to provide for our family. Since today was Sunday we started off our day going to church. What had originally seemed like such an easy thing for us to do given the directions we were handed when we checked in yesterday turned out to an adventurous morning. Even though we had the directions we still didn't know what time the meeting started. So Chris got on the phone and started to call down the list of 5 numbers in the phone book. One person answered out of the five and it wasn't for the ward we had directions. That was fine. We got new directions from this bishop. Then we decide that we should probably rent a car because if we take a taxi to church and back and then a taxi to Old San Juan and back we would spend more if we had just rented a car for the day. And we need one anyway for tomorrow. Well that takes another hour to do. Finally we are in our car and off to find the church using my new Sprint Instinct's navigation system. I hadn't tried out that feature yet so it was a gamble. My phone worked great to get us where we were going but there was NOT a church at the address we had. It ended up being a different address altogether and the only way we found it was through prayer. At this point there was only about an hour of church left and we had been driving around for quite awhile. I decided to pray and asked Heavenly Father to please help us find the church because we really wanted to go but if it wasn't meant to be to help us find food instead! I was starving! Well, i told Chris to take a U turn and turn left at the next street which just had a bunch of houses on it. We drove down that road and then we decide to turn left. We go about half a block and I scream out "There it is, there's the church." "Where?" "Right there, see the steeple?" We back up a few feet and drive in the driveway. I guess Heavenly Father thought I was better off with food for my soul instead of for my tummy.



Since we got a late start to our day we skipped most of day two of our Walking Tour and instead just chose the things off that tour that we really wanted to hit. We went to the Fort Christobal Historic Site which houses the fort that protected San Juan from invaders during pirate times and during war.

We ate at two restaurants today. The first one is in Old San Juan and is called Raices. The service was fine, no long waiting times. I had a traditional Puerto Rican dish, Mofongo with skirt steak. I rarely eat steak of any kind. Maybe once every couple years. But I do like skirt steak and I do like plantains. Mofongo is a mixture of mashed cooked plantains with a meat or fish of some type. I was disappointed with my dish. It came in what looks like a wooden cup with the plantains on the bottom and my steak was on the top. The steak was greasy, so much so that there was a layer of liquid grease between the steak and the mashed plantains. I didn't eat very much of it. Chris got the fish Mofongo and his was really good. Our other restaurant was latin Star. It gets two thumbs up from me. I had the Arroz con Pollo and it was cooked perfectly. Yum.

Here is Chris in our cabana. This is right on the private beach of our hotel. We hung out here for an hour or so tonight and watched the surf, read and well...this is a G rated blog.