honeymoon: part two

early tuesday morning, we went out to this local beach in luquillo.

that afternoon, we took a 10-minute ferry across the bay to the hotel's private island, palomino. the island had warm, turquoise water, white sand beaches, and was surrounded by shallow reefs on one end. perfect.


todd loved walking out on the reefs. i spent most of my day watching him from the shore, afraid he would get sucked out by a rogue wave or eaten by the sharks. the deepest water i got in was up to my knees, and there were two-foot sharks swimming around. (yes, i freaked out when i saw them. and stomped around in the water to scare them away. then ran away. )

i forgot to charge the camera battery, so i didn't get many pictures of palomino island. i should have taken pictures of the sunburns we got that day-- we thought we were being so responsible, but we got fried.

honeymoon: part one

we stayed on the seaside cliffs of easter puerto rico at the beautiful el conquistador resort. this is the view from our room. tough life, right?!

our first adventure in puerto rico was to el yunque, the only rainforest in the caribbean. the view from this torre was beautiful!


we took a really nice hike to this waterfall, "la misa." the whole hike, we could hear the bird and the "coqui" frogs singing. todd jumped in and went behind the falls... i thought the water was way too cold.


after driving through el yunque, we drove back to san juan to visit the old town. our first stop was one of the old military forts. puerto rico is known for these little guard towers called "garditas." there are only 5 original garditas left in san juan, and this is one of them.


the view of the ocean was awesome.


i like this face. silly todd.


i loved old san juan. the cobblestone streets, the wrought iron, the colors... it was so beautiful. i wished we had my scooter to cruise around on! we ate our first and last authentic puerto rican food here, at a little hole in the wall the lady at the rental car place recommended. todd didn't mind his seafood paella, but i doubt i'll ever eat mofongo again. by some miracle, we didn't spend the rest of the trip in the bathroom.

june 19, 2009

our wedding day was beautiful and perfect.
thank you again to those who made the trip!

click: a sneak peek at some of our photos