I know i am a bit behind on the whole "updating my life on the blog" idea but hopefully you will take what you can get! Last week was our week back from our two week vacation and i feel like we spent all last week playing catch-up! I could barely make my way around the laundry load and, quite honestly, considered keeping the laundry pile as an addition to our bedroom and buying all new underwears... My husband wasn't too keen on the idea so, alas, everything is now in order and here i sit in our Christmas-tree-less living room.
Here are some pics of our vaca!
So, in case you didn't know, Tez and i went to Puerto Rico to visit my grandparents. As a child until high school i would spend my summers there with my grandparents. At the time I HATED spending my summers there! I was away from my friends, no one else went out of town for that long and all the tv was in SPANISH. But now i look back and appreciate the opportunity so much and wish i could still spend my summers there now;)
Puerto Rico is BEAUTIFUL. The culture is one of a kind and, although i am STILL working on my Spanish, i feel i can honestly say that I am not just a Puerto Rican by blood. There is something about knowing the island... it feels like home.
As soon as we got there we tried to get Tezar assimilated to the culture...
Had fun at La Parguera. We ate tiburon Shish Kabob's (that's shark) while my cousin Eddie and Tez took turns serenading us with Eddie's Spanish guitar.
A lot of my favorite fruits were out of season, The avocado's were still flowers, mangoes weren't blooming. No canepa's to be found...but, of course, there are always coconuts. My grandpa taught tez how to cut them open. Isn't he so manly? My friend actually mentioned that he looks like Mogli from the jungle book here...quit trying to picture him in a lion cloth!
Organic...it's all the rave these days.
What's going to Puerto Rico without any beach action?! My cousin's dog, Chelsey, looks like a BEAST in this picture.
Blue waters... You can see the lighthouse on the cliffs
We decided to hike to the lighthouse. I took some pics of the cliffs with my dad's camera-they were out of this world!!! But i have yet to get them from my dad. You'll have to use your imagination. I did contemplate acting out some scenes from Lost in while atop them...
Need i say more?
Ok so Puerto Rican's love them some pork, but around Christmas time it just gets OUT OF CONTROL. I mean, what's a Puerto Rican Christmas song without mentioning el lechon (the pig). Mostly roasted. Taste's phenomenal. I'm pretty sure on Christmas i ate pig three times... we threw caution to the wind.
To put this in perspective On dec 24th we decided to go kayaking... this was the car in front of us. Notice the pig on the roof...
Tez found a starfish while kayaking
Santa visited the Island.
Santa also visited my grandparents. I love my grandma's reaction to her present. We framed one of our wedding pics done by my wedding photographer. She LOVED it. This makes me so happy.
So my grandma's birthday is ALSO on Christmas. Her name in spanish means Christmas. So it was double the celebration and i could tell my grandma felt so loved- she ate the attention up! Ummmm.... she definetly changed her birthday candles around.
Some of the family came over to pay their respects to my grandma(that's how Puerto Rican's roll)
SO that's a little about my time in PR
We then came back home the 26th and the next day it was out to Nashville for New Years Conference. (Or as the college students refer to it NYC). My husband and I were involved in a ministry called Campus Outreach when we went to the U of M. My husband is now on staff with the ministry and they throw this event. It was awesome, ton's of fun, a catalyist to my spiritual growth and, i know, the college students who attended. Click the video to get a little sneak peak of what our week was like. (In the video you can see the hubs pullin some sweet dance moves..hott!)
And there you have it! The end of 2010... Now if only i could stop writing 2010 on everything...
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