Puerto Rico! Day 6 - 3.30.08

Another lazy morning yesterday and we had a difficult time trying to decide what we wanted to do. However, we waited just long enough and about 12:00-12:30 the gray skys rolled in and parked over Guaynabo for the rest of the day. So as the Puerto Rican's would say, "What to do?" We decided to go see a movie last night. I was between "Horton" and "Drillbit Taylor" Becky, Amanda and I agreed on "Drillbit" It was a really funny movie I would definitely suggest going to go see it, or at least put it on your Netflix when it hits DVD.

"Becky doing her Karate kick"

The theater we we too down here was a Caribbean Cinemas. As Becky said, "It looks like a Disney World ride!"

Today is the day that we have been dreading. I guess that would be tomorrow when I have to get up and go to work. Our flight back home to Philly is at 6:12 pm. Everyone knows that the planes never leave on time why do they always schedule such exact flight times? It is sad for us to be leaving our friends in Puerto Rico, but Becky and I were saying that we both are starting to miss home.

Puerto Rico! Day 5 - 3.29.08

We got a really late start to the day yesterday. We didn't leave the house until after 12:30. We went to Rebecca's apartment and sat by the pool for the rest of the day. I was craving Starbucks ALLLL DAY!! So, finally after we left the pool. . . I got my Starbucks! Carmel Frappachino with whip it was great. Not much else to write about it's kind of a short day when you don't get started until after 12:00.

Puerto Rico! Day 4 - 3.28.08

Our trip to the Rain Forest yesterday was absolutly amazing. It's about an 1.5 hour drive from Guaynabo. (which is where Matt and Amanda live) The weather was perfect for hiking. It's amazing how much the weather changes from "town" to the "forest" I took about 200 pix in the Rain Forest and now I have to try to pick out a few of them to post.

I absolutly LOVE this picture!

Last night Amanda, Becky, and Amanda's friend Rebecca cooked dinner. MMmmmmMmm . . . quesadillas. They were frickn' awesome!


After dinner settled we played 'Phase 10' and ate the dessert that Becky and Amanda also made. It was a lemon/strawberry frozen dessert. (I think someone forgot the sugar)

Puerto Rico! Day 3 - 3.27.08

Yesterday we all slept in a little. Amanda and I slept in till about 8:00-8:15 and Becky till . . . it was going on 10:00. We spent most of the day sitting by the pool at the Hilton which we aren't staying at, but Amanda and Matt lived their for two months of their life so they feel like they own the place. We grabbed lunch about 3:00 and headed home about 5:00. Becky and Amanda went to the grocery store to buy stuff for dinner last night and tonight, and Matt and I just chilled at the house.


This has been a very relaxing and greatly needed vacation. The only downside is we're going to have to go home at some point.

Today it's off to the Rain Forest!!

Puerto Rico! Day 2 - 3.26.08

Amanda, Becky and myself started off yesterday at the beach and we were there for just a short time before we realized the wind and the sand was blowing way to much for us to enjoy our time there. Before I move on to lunch. . . I was almost attacked by an Iguana [pics later] I was laying on a sheet and I had my eyes closed when I opened them there was a 3 foot iguana just a couple feet away! It scared the crap out of me. He then decided he wanted to be friendly and proceeded to get closer to us. Amanda and Becky were not down with that. (Amanda got some great pictures)
After the near death experience with the 3 foot iguana Amanda's friend Rebecca called her and asked if we would like to come and sit by her pool. Needless to say it was a unanimous "YES" so it was off to grab some lunch at "pinky's" and then to the pool for the rest of the afternoon. The water was great!
Matt met us at the pool after he got off work and we chilled for awhile then it was off to the Chinese Restaurant for some dinner! Matt called two of their friends and they met us for dinner as well as Rebecca. We ate and ate and then ordered more and ate again! I was using my chop sticks to eat my fried rice. . . always takes a while and the waiter came up to my and with his Puerto Rican accent said, "we close at 11:00 don't take all night" We all about died laughing. After dinner it was back to the house for bed. . .

Puerto Rico! Day 1 - 3.25.08

We got into San Juan yesterday at about 1:30 and we met our friends in old San Juan for a light lunch and Pina Colada's. Apparently, this place is were they originated. (I'm curious if this is for real or like the Worlds Greatest cup of Coffee on "Elf".) Either way it was pretty freakin' awesome.
Matt and Amanda's friends John and Lauren were down from Reading, PA, but had to leave for the airport around 3:15. It was good to see them again and hopefully we'll stay in touch when we get back to the states. They run the website http://www.trimaxendurancesports.com/ check it out if you are in the Reading, PA area.

Today we got up and it was a little cloudy and it rain for about 5.2 min. and now it's off the the BEACH!!!

Vacation is HERE!!

We were up before 4 AM and on the road by 5! We made it to Greenville, SC safe and sound now were a getting ready for dinner. I am soooooo freakin hungry we are waiting for everyone to get checked in at the hotel we are staying at the Hyatt Place (just newly renovated 'AmeriSuites' It's AWESOME) My parents and my Aunt & Uncle and some cousins are all coming in. Well I've got to get ready for dinner.

Vacation is almost here

I'm getting excited Vacation is pretty much here! I'm taking off work tomorrow in order to pack, run to the bank, pickup anything we may have forgotten at the store, and straighten up the house. Becky is packing right now because she still has to go into the office tomorrow.

I'm chillin' on the couch listening to Jack Johnson and designing a website for my friends band. NavyBlue has been together since '99 and they are trying to get more gigs in our area. (southeast, PA) Hopefully I will have the website up within the next couple of weeks. I'm trying to decide if I want to design it in Xhtml straight or use a CMS particularly Expression Engine. A buddy of mine told me about EE and I would really like to use it. I'm sure it will make updating the site a breeze and we can even include a mini blog if we wanted to.

Vacation is coming

We are going to Greenville to visit friends and family over Easter weekend. Then on Sunday we are going to fly out of Charlotte, NC to Puerto Rico. We we will be staying with our friends Matt & Amanda Walls for a WHOLE WEEK!!! I can't wait I just realized today how close vacation was:

6 days left to work
10 days till we leave for Greenville, SC and
12 days till we leave for Puerto Rico!!!!

So excited to make our yearly trip to Tropical Warmness!!

New MacBook Pro!!!

I bought my first Mac!!

Last Friday I received a call from Best Buy telling me that my piece of garbage 'HP' laptop was approved for a warranty replacement. Thank goodness I was about a week from the warranty being over! I went to Best Buy Saturday afternoon to see what my options were for receiving a replacement computer. Turns out they give you the amount of money you spent on the original computer to replace or put towards a new one in my case.

Let's see if I can make the the least confusing as possible. On the Tuesday before I went to BB apple released their new line of macbooks. I went to BB to see if they had the new ones in stock yet. Turns out they didn't, but what they did have was the old line of macbooks all marked down. (Merry Christmas to me) Long story very short I asked the Manager if they could give me anymore for money towards my laptop. When I bought my HP retailed for about $300 more than I paid because it was marked down as an open box return. He told me they couldn't give me any more money, but that they had the old $2,500 MacBook Pro marked down to $1,699. I think I told him I would take the apple before he finished his sentence.

So . . . the new computer is a 2.4 Ghz 15" MacBook Pro with 2Gb of RAM and a 120GB hard dive. I absolutely love it!! If you are in the market for a new computer I highly recommend the MacBook Pro.

I've been a Windows-PC guy all my life, but finally decided I was fed-up with Microsoft after the so called upgrade they released. (Vista) I wasn't going to purchase a new computer just to be frustrated and stuck with an Operating System that didn't like.