Puerto Rico was a blast! New Year's Eve was a picture-taking extravaganza. We drove into San Juan from our beach house with Jason on the phone with a friend in Boston, who was Googling good bars to go to. With 10 minutes to spare we found Oyster, a run down New Orleans-themed bar in Carolina. They had drinks and the countdown and a high-performance a/c system, so we shivered as we rang in 2007. Al and I shot pool all night, bought a football at Walgreens, and the gang danced away at Oyster and Monighan's, the Space-Irish club next door. It had a geodesic dome design, stars on the second floor ceiling, and no Irish paraphenalia I could see besides the green neon sign outdoors.
We went to the bioluminescent bay near Fajardo and raced our kayaks through the mangrove trees under a nearly-full moon. The little plankton ("half plant, half animal" said our guide) lit up blue-green when you disturbed the water ("because they are reproducing and dying"). El Yunque rainforest was five minutes from our house so Al and Jason and Will went up to check it out towards the end of our stay. Looked a lot like Gabon, but wetter.
New Years
"The confetti won't go!"
"You have to take the plastic wrap off."
Waterfall, rainforest.
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