This week we got to celebrate Labor Day with one more day off of school and a road trip to the center of the island to a beautiful little town called Aibonito. It was a bit of a drizzly day and it made the ride up through the windy mountain roads just that much more beautiful. This town is known for its gardens and greenhouse shops and holds an annual flower festival every year in June. We missed it by a couple days last time we were here so decided to take our own trip to see this town and buy some unique flowers and plants. It turned out to be worth the drive! It was so fun to walk through the little garden shops and find some of our favorite flowers to bring home to our yard. Beck even found a Roostery pit that he’s going to put in the front right next to our other mascot Rupert.
We found a spot that sells lots of fruit trees and Ray the owner was the best at introducing and informing us on all the different kinds. We ended up with a great variety of trees that will be so awesome to watch grow! By the time we left this cutest little town our car was full of plants…and children somewhere in there.
While we were down south we ventured just a little further to the town of Salinas and walked along this rocky beach to fleecy shells, sea glass and anything else we could find. It’s fun to explore another part of the island and see how different. These beaches can be compared to the ones by us. Since it’s Monday Beach Day we wanted to make sure we made it to Salinas Beach before heading home. It did not disappoint and we left with a trove of treasures we found!
This week we also tried out a new pizza place just down the street from us and it was delicious. Yunques Pizzeria just down from us in the little town of Palmer that we drive through daily on our way to and from school. We’ll definitely be back. We also discovered the incredible sunsets that we have off of our deck and can’t get enough of them.
Desh comes home from school every day sweaty as a 6 year old boy should be after playing hard all day!
We’ve been cleaning out the downstairs and still moving things up as we go. This week we cleared out our bedroom and remembered how big that room actually is! It looks and feels so nice to have this room done.
Kids. Are. Weird. Anyone else recognize that or is it just me?
And we got the boys bed delivered this week and worked hard to get it together! It is an awesome triple bunker so they can all sleep in it together and it doesn’t take up too much room. The mattresses have been a bit hard to find as the middle and top one are a full xl and a twin xl. The full xl (which I actually didn’t even know was a real size of mattress) we found randomly in just pure luck here on the island at a tiny mattress shop that we went into just as it was closing and they pulled it out of the back like a miracle. We fit it in our car and drove home wondering how on earth we found that random size of mattress in this corner of the earth! The twin xl we ordered from Costco and just like that this bed came together and the boys have their room! It looks really great all put together.
We have also had a really rainy week with one day in particular that produced a downpour and some pretty good flooding in just a short amount of time. We watched as our yard filled up with water and found out the problem spots that need some work on the drainage. Some water did get into downstairs and flooded the kitchen as well (good thing most of our stuff is moved out) so that’s also something we’re going to have to figure out before too long too. We had the most spectacular sunset that night as the clouds were breaking up just as the sun was going down.
Other fun happenings:
Kids. Are. Weird. Anyone else recognize that or is it just me?
And we got the boys bed delivered this week and worked hard to get it together! It is an awesome triple bunker so they can all sleep in it together and it doesn’t take up too much room. The mattresses have been a bit hard to find as the middle and top one are a full xl and a twin xl. The full xl (which I actually didn’t even know was a real size of mattress) we found randomly in just pure luck here on the island at a tiny mattress shop that we went into just as it was closing and they pulled it out of the back like a miracle. We fit it in our car and drove home wondering how on earth we found that random size of mattress in this corner of the earth! The twin xl we ordered from Costco and just like that this bed came together and the boys have their room! It looks really great all put together.
We have also had a really rainy week with one day in particular that produced a downpour and some pretty good flooding in just a short amount of time. We watched as our yard filled up with water and found out the problem spots that need some work on the drainage. Some water did get into downstairs and flooded the kitchen as well (good thing most of our stuff is moved out) so that’s also something we’re going to have to figure out before too long too. We had the most spectacular sunset that night as the clouds were breaking up just as the sun was going down.
Other fun happenings:
Eduardo and Junior have been working on installing toilets in our bathrooms upstairs! And I actually got to be the first one to use a flushing toilet on the upper level!
Joshs bidet was installed and the kids took turns trying it out. Hilarious reactions.
Nightly Spanish lessons continue.
I found an indoor basketball court!
And Friday night we were invited to spend the evening at our branch presidents house with him and his wife. She made us a delicious Puerto Rican dinner (piñon which is a Puerto Rican lasagna made of sweet plantains) and then we swam the night away in their community pool. It was empty except for us and soo fun to be with them!
Saturday morning we worked hard planting out new trees and plants and recognize after a couple of hours it just gets too hot to work outside. We did all we could then moved inside to do a little work on the house in there.
Date night Saturday night and the kids got to play nintendo while we were away.
And Friday night we were invited to spend the evening at our branch presidents house with him and his wife. She made us a delicious Puerto Rican dinner (piñon which is a Puerto Rican lasagna made of sweet plantains) and then we swam the night away in their community pool. It was empty except for us and soo fun to be with them!
Saturday morning we worked hard planting out new trees and plants and recognize after a couple of hours it just gets too hot to work outside. We did all we could then moved inside to do a little work on the house in there.
Date night Saturday night and the kids got to play nintendo while we were away.
Josh drew up the plans for the table he’s going to build with Carmelo.
And I got the sweetest gift from Hermano Vasquez. My very own rice pot to make the perfect rice that he taught me how to make! He is the kindest man and I’m so grateful for friends like this that we’ve found here!
Our week ended as we found a new pet in our yard today and the kids room turns holding him before they let it go. We can’t help but feel so lucky to be in such a beautiful spot at this time of our lives. Things get tough and it’s not all sunshine and rainbows but we sure try to make the best out of it and have found that it’s pretty great!
Our week ended as we found a new pet in our yard today and the kids room turns holding him before they let it go. We can’t help but feel so lucky to be in such a beautiful spot at this time of our lives. Things get tough and it’s not all sunshine and rainbows but we sure try to make the best out of it and have found that it’s pretty great!
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