Friday, January 29, 2016

10 year anniversary - St. Thomas and Puerto Rico

One night at dinner, I ordered peach soup. This is what they brought me. Thayne started cracking up. The did come pour some soupy stuff over the top later. And it was delicious. I ordered it for dessert again.

Our next stop was St. Thomas. This was my favorite port. St. Thomas had a lot to do and was beautiful. We had fun walking around and went on an excursion through the cruise ship to the other side of the island to a private beach to snorkel. The private beach was just so so but the adventure of driving in the open air cabs all through St. Thomas was great.
We walked to some shopping first thing in the morning.
Snorkeling
The private beach
They had these gigantic lizards on St. Thomas. They weren't very afraid of humans and could climb trees super fast.
The view from a look out on top of the island.


Puerto Rico
We did a city tour. Puerto Rico was an interesting place. Lots of people. Not enough jobs. Our tour guide gave us the low down on politics and who wants to be a state and who doesn't. It seems as if most of the country doesn't want to be a state because they don't have to pay federal taxes but they still get all the benefits of food stamps, insurance, and social security. 
Upside down in the capitol
Capitol building
An old pirate ship
Puerto Rico has these cool fortresses and castles that you can explore. 

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