Puerto Rico

The Summer's invited us to go on a "work" conference with them.  We knew I would be 26 weeks pregnant so we didn't know how things would work out with my pregnancy.  So we booked our trip a little later than them just to make sure everything was going ok with the pregnancy.  Because of that, we weren't in the same hotel but it still worked.  We needed to rent a car so we just kept the car at our hotel and then Matt would drive over to their hotel for the conference.  It made it nice to have a car so we could see lots of things.  We went to a beautiful beach one afternoon.  The waves were very strong and they pounded us but we still had fun.  Tiff forgot her sunglasses so she bought new ones during our first shopping day.  While we were playing in the ocean, Layne told Tiff to take her glasses off but she said "they're on tight. They'll be ok."  The next wave came and knocked Tiff over.  When she came up, her glasses were gone.  It turned into our joke for the rest of the trip.  We had such a good laugh at poor Tiff's expense.  Luckily she was a really good sport about it.  But she didn't buy any more sunglasses.  February 10th.  

I laugh when I look at this picture because Tiff bought a really cute sun hat.  So I saw how cute she looked in hers and I thought I would were the one I borrowed from Shan.  After I saw this picture, all I could do was laugh!!!!   Tiff looks much better in her sun hat!

We found the "Original Pina Colada" place that we discovered when we went on our cruise with them.  We were walking around the town when we stumbled upon it.  We wrote down the address and came back for the best ever Pina Colada's on February 13th.  

Our taxi cab driver recommended the restaurant Barrachina to us.  It ended up being really good but it was ALL meat!!!!  The men were in heaven!  Look at those ribs!!!! February 13th.

We wanted to go to the Rain Forest so on Tuesday, Layne and Matt skipped out a little early and we drove over an hour to get to the El Yunque rain forest.  We went on a mile hike to get to the La Mina Falls.  It was beautiful and well worth it.  (The hike was not too bad.)  We played under the falls for a while until we got too cold.  The water was freezing at first but we had worked up a sweat from the hike so it felt good at first.  The best part was watching Layne and Matt goof off under the falls.  Tuesday, February 11.  

We went on a little excursion one night through the Bio Illuminesence lagoon.  Most people take a kayaking tour but they wouldn't let me because I was pregnant so we had the "lazy" tour and were on a boat.  I was worried about the boat ride but it was an opened boat and it had to go really slow.  It ended up being an awesome night!  The scenery was beautiful!  It was a full moon so we were worried that it would make things too bright but we were still able to see the lights in the water.  

Once it got dark, they gave us pvc pipes to stir the water around with.  As you moved your stick in the water, the water would light up because of some fungi that's in the water.  I don't understand the science behind it, but it was really cool!  Wednesday, February 12th.

We were supposed to fly home on the 13th but because of a big storm hitting the east coast, our flight was cancelled in Atlanta.  Luckily the airlines called us on Wednesday, February 12th and told us to reschedule our flight home.  It looks us almost a day to finally reach a real person on the phone and reschedule our flight.  The earliest we could fly out was the next day on Friday the 14th.  Mom and Marilyn were great to stay with the boys an extra day.  Because the storm was so massive, we were worried that we could be stuck until next week.  But luckily we were delayed by only a day.  We were just grateful that the airlines called us ahead of time and that we didn't get stuck in an airport.  It was really rough to spend an extra day in Puerto Rico.  It ended up being my favorite day because I told Matt all I wanted to do was relax!  So we slept in and I sat by the pool for a couple of hours.  Then we went out to dinner with the Summers.  What a great trip!