Back to San Juan on Saturday

Well, as all good things do, the cruise came to an end on Saturday morning.

We were to meet up in the Martini Bar at 9:30 so Doyle and I got up and went and had a quick bite to eat. We then went up to the pool deck and I took some pics of arriving in port.





We then picked up our carry-on luggage from our room and headed to meet Paige and Barry. Once we had disembarked from the boat and cleared customs, we caught a Taxi and headed to our hotel.

We stayed in the Hotel Normandie. Beautiful place.



Our rooms weren't quite ready so they took our bags into storage and we headed into Old San Juan for a day of tourist activities.

We saw many cool buildings and did more shopping. The "brownstones" were very cute. The streets were extremely narrow - allowing for one row of parked cars, one row of travelling cars and sidewalks to fit only one person at a time.






When we were walked and shopped out, we headed back to the hotel, dropped our stuff in our rooms and headed for the pool. I didn't last long and went for a nap before dinner. While I had my snooze, Doyle went for a walk and got some beach scene pics.




The bellboy made a fantastic suggestion for dinner - Maios. We had a delicious dinner. Paige and I had the absolute best tasting strawberry margaritas ever - with so much alcohol in them that we thought we would not be able to walk. And the boys tried apple martinis. After dinner, we followed our same pattern from the cruise ship and headed right to bed when we got back to the hotel.

On Sunday morning, we lazed in the hotel room for a couple hours and I had yet another nap. And must have missed Paige and Barry in the process. They went off on their own to do some exploring. Doyle and I went for a walk and for lunch before heading to the airport. It was sad to not see them before we left!!

Our trip home was pretty uneventful...except for the ticket problem in Toronto that took our entire layover to fix.

We arrived home around 3:30 am on Monday. Crawled into our own beds and just collapsed.

All in all...this was one vacation that we will never forget and will, for sure, want to do again - except for the lost luggage, of course