Howard Johnson Old San Juan

... back and have done some more research on our specific boat - I know that you can book thru Castillo tours directly and save yourself $6. AND after doing more research I found that if you book through GoToPuertoRico.com you can get the same excursion for only $65, that would have saved us $20. I guess we lived and we learned, but still had a great time regardless - and I was ok with the $85 that we paid ...

Our original intent today was to go explore Old San Juan, however when we woke up we decided that we needed to recoup from the previous night, so we decided to make it a pool day. We got ourselves ready for the pool and then made our way to Don Jose's, located on Ave. Isla Verde. Breakfast here was cheap and yummy! It was a great place to grab a "quick" bite, and I mean that ...

... of Old San Juan, went to the forts and the museum of the americas, which was really good, and enjoyed great food and salsa music. Then, on the third day, the cruiseships arrived. It was like a different town. More beggers on the streets, more streetsellers, fat tourists with hugh shopping bags everywhere, children selling chocolates.. it was a prime tourist place, most charme lost in the crowds.. <br>

... recall, we are flying American on this trip because Star Alliance (i.e. United et al) have pretty poor service to Barbados. So we traded for some AA miles to make this happen, and as a result are flying an airline in coach without status for the first time in a long time. Like good boys and girls, we arrived at the airport exactly 2 hours before departure, since this is an international flight. Now, AA flies 3 routes from BGI, namely to MIA ...

Day 3 or is it 4 at sea? We are still at sea, and the ship passed the halfway point to Africa at 5pm yesterday. The weather has been fair with highs in the 70s. The days at sea have already started to blend together, and we have relaxed quite a bit from the frenzied pace we were on during our final two weeks in Atlanta. Honestly, there is not much to report about being at sea. However, we want to keep the blog active and decided to go ahead ...

POLSKI: Rano spedzilam w galerii. O 12tej ja i Ben mielismy wolne, na 7 godzin. Dawno nie opuscilam statku w tak ekspresowym tempie! Bylo upalne poludnie, a my udalismy sie na zwiedzanie miasta. Poszlismy w przeciwna strone niz ja ostatnio i jednym z pierwszych obiektow, na ktory sie natknelismy byl... konik morski, a dokladniej jego rzezba. Ben idealnie wymawia to wyrazenie po polsku. Kto by pomyslal, ze z tysiecy ...

... it was probably best to get out from under it before one of us got hit with something, and as we were leaving another family had come. A mother was holding her daughter as the father fed the pigeons, which scared the little girl because she screamed at the top of her lungs to the birds "Get away from my Dad!" It was absolutely the sweetest thing, so I asked to take a picture of them. The Mom asked if I had MySpace so she could see the picture, which was ...

... but it was very cool. All the tables were covered in sayings like: "An eye for eye leaves everyone blind." It was pretty chill and their Key Lime sorbet wasn't bad either. We headed out to El Morro, a fort that was built in the mid 16th Century. It took 200 years to build, and is a very prominent part of Puerto Rico. It was attacked a number of times and was controlled by the Spanish and British at different times in history. There were steps up ...

... They range in color from brown, reddish-brown to gray. Many possess incised lines similar to Silverman's Tajo descriptions and Strong's "Modeled and Incised Proto-Nasca" utilitarian ware. The collared jars are quite variable color, paste quality, temper, and size of inclusions. None bear decoration, but some have a natural-colored slip. The necked jars have sharply everted necks and are generally brown to reddish-brown, with a micacious coarse paste, and a slip of the ...

... then moved back indoors. After that we all decided it was best just to head back and so we all got in a cab(all nine of us!) and went back to the ship. Once we were back at the ship we set a time and place to meet and go back out but unfortunately I mixed up where we were suppose to meet and missed both groups. So I got to get a little more organized in my cabin which I needed. My roommate got back around 1:30 from the bioluminescent bay which she loved. I was so ...