Hi all! Our first week and we are FINALLY entering our first Blog: Jim and Sherry’s Most Excellent Adventure has begun.

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Very little access to internet, in spite of our sincere belief it would be ever so accessible…ah well. Rest assured we will blog when a) we are able to access internet and or b) we are not having too much fun, and c) we are reminded about how many people we told ABOUT the *&^%$ Blog

Week # 1

We left Seattle Tuesday at 10:30 pm.FYI American Air Lines budget seat size has shrunk a good 15% rendering even Gravol induced sleep only frustrating and impossible!  Our Thursday afternoon 2 pm arrival had us staggering out of bed after 12 hours in a lovely mauve bedroom, air-con cooled in our Puerto Rican condo. Note to Pacific North West coffee addicts:  at our Miami layover it took us 6 escalators and a 1 mile skytrain trip to find Sherry a Starbucks.  Seems the SE ,unlike the NW,could care less about decaf Americano.  In San Juan we rented our Toyota Yaris and drove to Fajardo not knowing that Hwy 3 is 1/2 Puerto Rican and 1/2 Indy 500.  We arrived, dent-free, but in last place  3 laps down. Right after getting acquainted with our condo (its great)we f  ound a grand daddy iguana sunning itself on a Bouganvilla fence – excluding the tail it was about 2 ½ to 3 feet long.  At dusk every Coqui Frog in the jungle sings us to sleep…. They are a PR specific frog that refuses to thrive, or even survive any where else other than PR and one Hawaiian Island. 

Alixandra  and Erik’s Wedding

Amazing, Wonderful, Beautiful and so Enjoyable!  The group of guests paled only to the glowing bride and  groom:   American, Puerto Rican, Swedish and (one) Canadian with smiling faces and friendly ‘love to get  to know ya’ chatting.  From the ornate Spanish Cathedral to the reception and party at a   beautiful PR mansion/home, overlooking tropical landscape and green/blue Atlantic Ocean,  It would be an understatement to say everyone had memorable day.

Kayaking Bioluminescent Bay:

Yippee! What fun with Christie and Shaun (Jim’s ever so cool niece and fiancee’)– involving a (occasionally) romantic nighttime paddle through the mangrove channels to the luminescent waters of ‘Laguna Grande.  With every stroke and splash of the paddle, the water glowed brightly with blue iridescent light.  A phenomenon occurring only in 5 locations in the world, this location is the largest concentration of microscopic plankton.