On Wednesday, we spent the entire day in San Juan, which was about an hour drive from our resort.
Here is the whole group of us... all 19... waiting for the bus to take us to San Juan.
The girls even caught a nap on the way.
I snapped these pics of Pam and Gary (Chris' mom and dad). If it wasn't for them...we wouldn't have even been in Puerto Rico. But, what amazes me is how cute they are... still in love and holding hands! I just LOVED it!
We visited the fort and spent some time souvenier shopping while we were there visiting!
This is our nephew Shannon. He is such a goofball and was posing for us on the roof of the fort. I just couldn't help but put these on here. He makes me smile!
Quick story... The fort had so many areas that were just huge drop offs. You can see them in the pictures above with my nephew cody (in the blue shirt). Many areas were fenced or had railings, but many areas did not. It was a little scary with three little girls! I was afraid they would crawl up on some ledge and just fall off into the deep blue sea! SCARY!
Well, as we were leaving the fort, Brian had the girls ahead of Chris and I. Well, Chris was back in the tunnel area (see below) and the girls were being put up on this grassy area to take a picture. The other side was one of those drop off areas and the grassy area was high, above our eye level...
From the tunnel, this is what we saw (minus the girls standing there).
Do you see the ledge? The ledge that looks as if my child could crawl up and fall over it? Well, Brian was putting the girls up over the ledge on the grass...which, of course we couldn't tell was grass because...well, you saw it, it doesn't look like there is grass up there! He wanted a picture and all we saw (or Chris saw) was three little girls climbing up on a ledge that he assumed was a drop off into the water! He screamed...and I mean literally screemed at the kids to STOP (and it was even louder because it echoed in that tunnel. I think we scared everyone around us, but that was the scariest thing Chris has ever experienced...thinking your children are climbing to their deaths! Whew....good thing there was grass on the other side...well, that and Brian, who really knew what he was doing was watching them.
This is what it actually was like...when we got closer?
Anyways, scary story...but I thought I would share. Hope I didn't lose you in it. Otherwise, the pic above is all the grandkids with Grandpa! By the way... I absolutely LOVE his hat! Only Grandpa J can pull of a hat like that so well!
Later that day, I even got a little Baby Drake time...
That evening after dinner we celebrated Brooke and Kelsi's birthdays with some cake that I picked up on my outing to Walgreens the day before.
Thursday was our trip back home and we had to be at the airport relatively early that morning....but we made it out to the beach for some fun family pics one last time.
This was the entry way of our resort! Beautiful! It reminded us that it was Christmastime...even though it didn't feel like Christmas!
These houses were so ornate...with such detail. Awesome. I never seen any gingerbread houses like them!
The airplane trip home wasn't quite as easy as the trip there since Brooke decided NOT to take a nap on the 4+ hr airplane ride...well, at least not until about 45 min from touchdown. Bummer! But, we managed... I guess! Everyone was tired, and somewhat cranky, and needed a nap...but we managed.
But more important...we had a wonderful time...we actually relaxed and enjoyed ourselves. It was a great vacation!
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