Day 1 - Getting there is sort-of fun

Up at 04:00 to get to our 09:00 flight out of Dulles. An uneventful (but very full) flight landed us in San Juan about 15:00. Getting our rental car (Routes Car Rental) was an exercise in patience since it took over an hour to deliver the car once we finished the paperwork. In the meantime, most of the rest of our group arrived and went to the hotel. PR is an hour ahead of the east coast, so it was already late afternoon.

Our group consists of Andrea and John (Gail's sister and husband), Paul and Lori (friends of Andrea), Marie (another sister) and Rita (Marie's high school friend) and Gail and I. Andrea, John, Paul, Lori, and Rita flew in from Minnesota. Marie arrives in the evening. On the pic, that's Paul and Lori on the left, Rita and Marie in the foreground, John and Andrea and Gail in the back.

We met up with the rest at the Condado Plaza Hilton and had a drink to catch up and plan out the rest of the day. We'll explore Old San Juan tomorrow. The Hilton is in the Condado neighborhood a bit west of the downtown and towards the old town. Nice place among several other hotels in the upscale area.

We made a dinner date using a recommendation from the bartender. Gail and I headed to the airport to pick up Marie and found our way to the restaurant - after a minor detour from a missed turn. Thank goodness for the GPS in the car and on my phone. Traffic is a bit chaotic with cars crowding into lanes and not using turn signals. Had good dinner at a Spanish themed place called Condal not far from the hotel. Most of us chose the seafood paella, which was good.

We headed back to the hotel and called it a day.Читать далее