Welcome to Puerto Rico (Part I)

Pat and I spent Christmas in Puerto Rico with Pat's four aunts, parents. siblings, cousins and nephews: 16 people in all.

One might think that you can get from LAX to anywhere in the world, which is absolutely true, but our journey to PR was an epic one: from Orange County to San Francisco, across the country to D.C. and from there on to PR. We arrived 16 hours after we started, a little rumpled but in good spirits. Our good spirits improved even more when the front desk handed us glasses of the Island's traditional Christmas libation (yum, rum). This picture is us upon arrival in the hotel room.

About an hour later, they brought us popcorn and beer. We both decided we could get accustomed to this life pretty quickly.

Our room at the Sheridan overlooked the cruise ships docks which provided many opportunities for people watching.

We also spent a lot of time watching the big ships come and go.

Later, in the hotel lobby, we ran into Pat's sister Kerrie. She had been to Senor Frogs, the restaurant next door, where apparently they pour sangria down your throat and force you to wear a silly balloon on your head. I warned Kerrie she was about to make the blog...

I didn't get any pictures at dinner the first night but I did take this shot of Pat and our nephew with the sign advertising $2 tequila shots. Yeah, I am pretty sure we are bad influences...