The Arbitrary ChuckJerry

Even before the cruise started we were getting our vacation on. They didn't let us start boarding the boat until about 2pm and our flight got in at 11am. The boat left from San Juan, Puerto Rico so we decided to drop our bags off at the ship and look around the city for a while. They weren't going to leave until 10pm anyhow, so we weren't in any danger of missing the boat.

We took a cab to Old San Juan, most of which was built in the early 1500's after Christopher Columbus "discovered" the island during his second voyage in 1493. The city has a big ass fort to protect it from pirates or other invaders and it also has a wall that goes all around it. The wall is like 50 feet high and 20 feet thick. It's a pretty impressive wall (but not a very happy wall, i'm afraid...Anyone? Luke, Brian?). Anyhow, we don't have pictures of that stuff, but here are some of the streets in Old San Juan




All of the street signs in Puerto Rico look like the signs in America, except they're all in Spanish.


Anyhow, we walked around there for a while and had lunch at a place called Flamers, which we thought was like Applebee's, but ended up being more of a fast food place. They need to open a Flamers in New York because it was pretty good. They must have those somewhere else on Earth, but I don't recall ever seeing one. Anyway, it was crazy hot, so after a while we just went back to the boat.