G from San Juan to Rio Grande

Hello everyone!
So much to do and so little time and.....finding a cyber cafe doesnt seem to be my priority. So far we have had 80 degree weather. A few showers in the past few days but it feels good. My flight from Boston was streamlined to a T. I arrived at 859 am for my flight at 2pm which was not going to get in until 1130 pm which is a bit dodgy to arrive so late. I went up to the desk and she checked me into the 930 am flight that was NOW boarding so I walked right through security the gate and onto the plane in 15 minutes and they put my backpack in a big bag. Everyone's luggage was wet practically except mine. Anyway I stayed at Casa del Caribe in Condado which was a frizbee toss from a giant beach. The area reminded me of Cancun but just not as much glam and glitz but expensive. PR is like USA as far as prices however you can get lots of delicious pollo (chicken) cooked on the streets and other delicious fried meat pies etc.
It is the Festival of San Sabastian so the streets in Old San Juan have 300,000 people on them from Thursday - Sunday. I met Duncan at the airport on Friday and we made our way out into the jungle of people and live bands. It was absolutely positively THE wildest street party I have ever attended. Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street........nothing to compare......... fun fun festive and again good food beautifully dressed young people and wonderful music of the Caribbean.
We visited El Morro a HUGE fort in Old San Juan and walked the streets with gorgeous houses and cast iron balconies draped with tropical orchids.
Now we are at the "Wyndam vacation package" for 4 days at http://www.wyndhamriomar.com/

I have never stayed at this fancy of a hotel. We have a view on the 6th of 7 floors of the rainforest (no way for me to get photos onto this system) and maybe if we are lucky we will be upgraded to an ocean view on the 7th floor. We will see. But for 3 days we have perfect sandy beach, bars by the pool, many pools, jacuzzis, and we visited the Bacardi Factory yesterday. largest rum producer in the world. drank our share of different rum cocktails, Cuba Libre (rum and coke w/lime) and Mojitos (rum, sugar, mint, lime juice and club soda) my favorite. So we bought a bottle and joined a family of 17 from Long Island, NY who are here for a week and an African American man from DC who wanted to get away from DC because of the inauguration... and a refueling pilot from Ohio. The two men were having disputes with their girlfriend/wives and joined us at out little outdoor party. Very cool.
Sadly Duncan ripped several layers of skin off the bottom of his foot getting into the jacuzzi so I am off to the store to find some medicine for him and then we will have our mango and pizza for bfast and hit the beach!
Besos galore, Georgie
PS I am not sure how often I will be posting on this journey so...just give it a check when you have a chance and I hope you are warm and well at home.