Mom's visit & stuff...

This year I have really been lazy with my blog (sorry Patrick). Anyways, I have been busy lately. My mom and Angela were here for Thanksgiving. We had a great time. Relaxed a lot and hung out at the beach. On Thanksgiving we had a great dinner at the Mudd's house down the street. I did end up breaking my camera, which I am very sad about.
Last week I had another visitor, Chamron. This was his second time here. We did not do too much either because I was still working. We did go to Culebra for the night and camp on the beach. There was a meteor shower that night, and it was awesome! I have never seen so many stars and so many shooting stars. So cool! It is the most awesome place to camp. You are right on the beach, which is an amazing beach. White sand and clear clear blue water. There is great snorkeling and it is so much fun. I think I will be headed back there with Andy, Karli, and Pat who will be here in a few days. On Wednesday I will have more visitors. They are going to love it. It is going to be great to have a friend and some of my family here for Christmas.

This is Audrey and Ethan. I had to put a pic of them because they are so cute. I work with their dad Jason and I am good friends with his wife Kim. Great Family.
Happy Thanksgiving!

At a restaurant near my house in Pozuelo called "The Casa de Pastellio"

El Morro in OSJ

Angela and I at El Morro

Standing in one of the sentry boxes in El Morro

In Old San Juan

Isla Verde in San Juan
Some of the beautiful homes in Old San Juan

Angela and I after a long day in the sun

Beach in Caja de Muertos
a small island off of of Ponce

Mom and Me

Angela, Kim, and I
Mandi, Angela, Kim, and I

Catching up with my blog...

It has been a while since I updated my blog. I am so lazy. So let's see, what have I been doing???
Well I had a birthday a couple of weeks ago. It was actually a sucky birthday because I started getting sick on my birthday. Ended up with Bronchitis. Did not get to go to the school Halloween party and couldn't go out on Halloween either because I felt like crap. I did put my costume on though. That's a long story too. I felt like crap, but I was going to go out anyways because I made my costume. Ended up waiting for like two hours for this guy I was dating to pick us up. Never came. Needless to say thats why I say, "Guy I was dating..." Hahah. Next! I am all better now. I hope it stays that way. So many students have been sick at school.

Two weekends ago I went with the Arrant family to the Ponce Hilton, which is about 4o minutes away. We hung out at the beautiful pool all day and then at night I went to the casino with Jason. I ended up winning like $200! I was playing this nickel machine and kept winning. It was a lot of fun.

This past weekend the girls went out to a Mexican restaurant. It really wasn't Mexican though and the food was bad. We went out afterwards and had a good time though. Saturday we went to Mr. Zayas house for a boxing party. Pacquioa and Cotto were fighting. It was a huge deal in PR because Cotto is from here. It was a great time. We sang karaokee until the fight started. They had it projected onto the house and it was a beautiful night. The guys ended up drinking a little too much, but a good time was had by all. Cotto lost.

Jason and I. You can see the fight on the house in the background. We projected onto the house. It was fun.

After the fight. Alyssa and I were stuck on that mic.

The guys taking shots of rum. No wonder they started getting all crazy.

Alyssa and I watiching the fight

Shotgun! I lost.

I was kissing my ring that was made out of a five dollar bill. Mandi dared me to pet this guys hair for $5 and I did. She should know that I will do things like that. Haha

Singing Karaoke

Ladies night out. Kim doesn't always get to come because she has two kids, but we always have so much fun when she does.

Kim and I at Soul's

This lizard walked up to the pool and took a crap and it ran off into the water. GROSS!

One of the pools. It was so relaxing and nice.

Nice view from the hotel

Me at the Ponce Hilton

First time I won that night! WoooHooo! $94.60

Beautiful view from a boat ride we took near Guayama

Me in my little mermaid costume. Did not even get to go out. Next year I will wear it.

Ladies night in Old San Juan

I saw this bird on my way to the bathroom in the restaurant. I asked this lady if I could hold it so she got the chef and he put it on me. Kim and I were trying to talk to it. Then I remembered where we were, and said, "We have to speak Spanish to it." So we tried and he started saying, "hola!" I was super excited. The bird was also 40 years old.

This past weekend all of the American girls decided to have a ladies night in Old San Juan. Old San Juan is the oldest city in America. It is a really cute town with tons of stuff to do. We went to a restaurant called Barrachina. It is the birthplace of the pina coloda! It was a super nice place. We chose this place because they have a live flamenco dance show. We all had a great time!

Alyssa, Lindsay, Kim, Me, Mandi, and Jodi

One of the flamenco dancers. I loved her bright outfit.

Caja De Muertos trip

We got a group of 18 together to go to one of my favorite places in PR. It is a small island off of Ponce that you take a ferry boat to. I love this place. It is so beautiful! The water is amazingly blue and clear. We went on Sunday and the weather was perfect. I took a hike with Barb and we tried to go up to the lighthouse, but we were attacked by mosquitos and had to turn around. I did hike back up there with Kim and found a beach to snorkel at. We saw some cool fish. I think I stepped on some coral or something because my foot was stinging for hours. It was such an awesome, relaxing day. Makes me remember how thankful and grateful I am to live here!

small part of the island

I love this pic. The mountains in the background is PR!

Lindsay, Alyssa, Me, and Mandi (all people I work with)

Me on the hike up. It was hot and long!

Cool cactus' that lined the trail.

Pics of the house

Mandi and I finished painting in the house today. I thought I would put some pictures up for everyone to see. I really like how the colors turned out. I never thought I would have a fuschia wall in my house. I guess if you live in Puerto Rico you can paint your house any color you want.

This is taken from the kitchen

Kitchen & the wall we painted yellow.

Our pink chalkboard wall. Got a recipe to make chalkboard paint from Martha Stewart. Wish I would have had that when I was a kid. It really cool. We mixed grout into the paint, and then sanded it. Now you can write on it with chalk!

My bedroom

Living room