Puerto Rico Day Five - Rest and Relaxation

Hola!

  Today was our last day in Puerto Rico and we spent it going back and forth between the ocean and the pool.  It was a perfect day for swimming, hot and sunny with barely a cloud in the sky.  David, Jacob, James and I all got some degree of sunburn but nothing that should bother us too much on the plane tomorrow.  

Jon was thrilled to get cake for breakfast

  The ocean today was calm and beautiful.  The surf was still a little rough for the boys, certainly too rough for them to practice swimming.  But Will had his "adult attitude" and he came out to jump in the waves.  David stayed near him and was really great at protecting Will from the high waves.  Although at one point after a big wave Will told James, "A wave knocked me down and I went into the black"  I'm not sure what he means exactly but I love his turn of phrase.  

Will and Daddy in the waves

Our beach

Playing on the beach

Swimming in the Caribbean

Jacob and Jon

  
























  Jon had his inner tube and enjoyed riding the waves back into shore.  I think we'll need to get him a boogie board this summer.  The boys also spent a lot of time on the beach with Daddy building sand castles and burying themselves in the sand.  In the afternoon Jon made friends with a little boys who had a squirt gun.  Jon shared his shovels and pails and the little boy shared his squirt gun.

Jonny riding the waves

Building castles

Will on the beach

  While we ate lunch Jon serenaded us with his new ukulele, he was so cute!  Afterwards, James and I played Munchkin (a really fun card game) with my brothers while Will and Jon painted with Grandma.  Will and Camille painted a picture of the view from our balcony and Jon used bright colors to paint the city of San Juan.

Painting with Grandma

Jon's picture of San Juan and Will's picture of the palm trees in our backyard.

   Although the adults loved the ocean, the boys favorite place to be is the pool.  The pools here are all pretty shallow, mostly under four feet so Will could stand in them and practice his swimming.  Jon used his noodle to swim around although he also practiced his swimming in one of the shallower pools.

Jonny under water

Will swimming under water

  Will was doing great swimming under water and toward the end of the day he met a girl just a little older than him.  They talked about swimming and she taught Will a few tricks.  I hung back so they could play but it was fun to watch them.

Will Swimming

Will doing an underwater flip

Two cute sharks

  After hours of swimming James and I left our tired boys in the very capable hands of Camille, Jacob and David, and headed for a little date night.  We had a delicious dinner in Fajardo which is just past El Yunque and Luquillo.  On the way over we took a back road through a tunnel of trees.  The trees intertwined above the narrow road and provided a complete canopy.  It was very cool and I wish we could have gotten a picture.

  On our date James and I processed our trip and discussed some of our favorite things.  One thing that we've both been struck by is how much our boys are growing up and what we've learned about them.  Jon loves food.  I've always known this but I didn't realize how adventurous he was.  He turned down pizza for broccoli soup, he loves pina coladas, and he ordered and devoured food that he's never seen before.  

  Will notices people and has a kind heart. In El Yunque he said hi to every single person we saw.  And in San Juan, after we passed a man in the street, he told me "That man has a sign that says 'help the blind'.  His eye doesn't work but he needs money so they can repair it and then he won't be blind anymore."  (He had read the sign and the rest he thought of himself.) We talked and Will and I decided that if we saw that man again we would stop.

  OK, one last recap and then I'll be done.  I love the people here.  Everyone we've talked to has been incredibly nice, even when we didn't speak the same language (although almost everyone did speak English)  The countryside is beautiful, the people kind and the food delicious.  I wish we had more time here but I think we will definitely come back again.  

And so until next time... Adios!!  
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