Adventure of the Seas--San Juan, Puerto Rico

Our stop in San Juan, Puerto Rico started like this.

It wouldn't be blog worthy if it weren't such a rare occasion for Mark to throw a tantrum over a silly thing like his parents making him find and wear a hat as they don't joke with the sun! Maybe that's the side effect of eating too many shrimps...we don't know...

In any case, our first half an hour in PR was not particularly fun, but now we all can laugh about it and remember Mark's little episode because he is HUMAN!:)

And this is how we ended our stop! See? Everyone is happy (and Mark is still wearing a hat).

But let me backtrack a bit. Puerto Rico was not a stop where we had a tour or anything, and we only stopped there from 1-9 pm. So we decided to take our own walking tour through the streets of San Juan to soak in the atmosphere. 

The town is definitely unlike any American town I've seen. I know Puerto Rico is technically a US territory but it was quite beautiful and sort of South European in a way. 

We tried to find the less travelled streets but it was hard. 

Everywhere we turned, we could see the cruise ship people. 

Here is a neat place in the Old Town. 

Katya "went to town" with these umbrella selfies-haha. Or should I say "to Old Town"? I'll just be cracking myself up here is the corner, don't mind me:)))

We also walked towards the Fort San Cristobal but somehow we didn't get any awesome pictures by the fort! Everything looks kind of like this...

Anyway, we walked around that area some more--having a hard time telling you what in the world we learned...

There was a cemetery by the sea, right next to the fort. 

Oh, here we go! A semi normal picture of the fort in the background and lots of people flying kites and running around. 

Well, after walking for quite some time in this humid heat, we found an open church to sit down and cool down a bit. And then we walked over to one of the kiosks to get some shaved ice and churros.

We finished our walking excursion with eating popsicles overlooking the beautiful city of San Juan. 

And again all was well in the Watson family:)

To Be Continued...