Back and Battle-Wounded

So I've tried to put some of these pictures in order, but it's just not working with me! Anyway, here we are back and recovered from Puerto Rico! My sunburn is on it's last peeling stages and my bug bites are finally letting me rest of their itch. Talk about battle wounds! You should see my legs! I look like I've had an outbreak of the chicken pox...

If you want to see the ENTIRE Puerto Rico album, just go to my Facebook page, as well as George's page and view ALL 500 pictures! Don't cha just love digital these days?

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2044157&id=122800083

We had an amazing time down south in the Caribbean! From the first moment we got there, we realized that iguanas ran rampant and the little lizards are like our squirrels in Boston!

We had an awesome underwater camera with us, and not one of those silly plastic encased ones, we had an actual black waterproof digital camera. It went a little bit like this:

Will (roommate): "Hey guys, you wanna take my waterproof camera to PR?"

George & Myself: "Heck yes we do!"

Will goes into his room and hands us a slim black digital camera with a large red floaty attached to it...

George: "This is waterproof??"

Will: "Uh, yeah...(babble geek speak, insert here)"

Me: "Wow, that's sweet!"

George: "Yeah, we'll try it out."

Ok, now fast forward to a beautiful Puerto Rican beach, waves, blue sky, surf and sand. We get into the warm water and George has the camera...

George: "Ok, you ready for this?"

Me: "Yeah, well let's do this.." as I slightly wince.

By the way, I forgot to mention that Will said he'd never actually tried out the camera's waterproof function. So, we're a little nervous at this point that we may break it!

George: "Alright, here goes nothin'!" He tosses the camera into the wave. The red buoy holds it up. I grab the camera and turn it on...so far so good.

"click"

Me: "It works!"

George: "Nice!! Let's do the damn thing then!"

Then we continue to take about a million underwater pictures! It was amazing. :)

And now for a few preview pictures:

This is George doing his "Lost" pose. How "Sawyer" of him... :)

We caught, well George and our friend Jake caught, so many little anoles! Little lizards!

This was the Caribbean side of the island.

I'm just loving it!

Iguanas!
Oh my goodness, we got sooooo lost in San Juan! And let me tell you how crazy Puerto Rican drivers are! Worse than Boston, as if that's even possible...

George is a tree-hugger at heart. :)

So least we can say is that we had a lot of fun, and maybe a few times in the rain that weren't so fun...my bites and sunburn being the worst part of the trip. BUT...the great part was that we had a wonderful host named Amy. She and her boyfriend had a beautiful room/bathroom for us to stay in and they were so generous and hospitable! Amy works at General Mills and served us many a granola bar, while Spencer is a pretty awesome pilot with a great moustache and aviators! He, however, is originally from Utah (St. George to be exact), so we had some pretty great conversations about growing up in the Beehive State.

I will say I'm pretty proud of the fact that I actually got on a surfboard, even though there was definitely NO surf that particular day. But, for now, my daydreams of being a surf bum chick in tropical paradise, are slightly satisfied.

If you want any more stories, say of creepy rest stops, getting stuck on a small island and drinking margaritas...then you'll just have to give me a call!

As for life right now, I'm knee deep in April Vacation Week at work. I'm directing a children's art program and have been blasted back to Newtonville, (the town I work in) which is a "ville" full of velour sweatsuit, coffee drinking, yoga doing, I've adopted a child from a foreign country because I have the money to do so...moms. Ahhh, the suburbs. :)

I had a 5 year old girl eating a full lobster for lunch yesterday! For lunch, lobster in a tupperware! Sheesh. I thought I was happy with my roast beef sandwich...

Today, I dealt with kids needing band-aids and peeing their pants. Well, that was only one kid, but you know, all in a good day's work.

Thanks for reading family and friends! I will be sure to update you with my experiences in the next few weeks at work. It's sure to be exciting...