Puerto Rico

Jen and I were able to go to Puerto Rico in September.  I had to go for two weeks for business and luckily Jen was able to tag along for the first week.  She couldn't stay for two weeks because of school and because she would have missed Noah too much.  We took a bunch of pictures so I am just going to show them and put a little description above them.  Unfortunately they are all out of order because I still don't have a grasp on this blogging thing.

This is a picture of us leaving Culebra.  It truly was a beautiful place.

This picture was taken after we realized that we got fried on the island.  We applied our sunblock twice, but it didn't seem to help.  Take a close look at Jen's arms and neck.  Yikes!
More pictures of the beach at Culebra.

On Saturday we took an hour ferry ride to the island of culebra.  The island used to be an old marine/navy/army base.  Not sure which branch.  The island had the most beautiful beach I have ever seen hands down.  The water was so clear and warm it was surreal.  Here is a picture of one of the abandoned tanks on the beach.

Here is Jen looking for the cheese at the end of the maze.
This is the waterfall at the rain forest.  Again this was one of Jen's excursions that I did not get to go on.  It looks really nice though.
Here is a picture of the rain forest.
This is a picture of the second hotel we stayed at.  It was a big resort with a golf course.
This is Jen sampling some of the native cuisine.Buen Provecho!
Jen went out on a little adventure with the girlfriend of one of my coworkers.  They went through the most poor area in San Juan.  I guess Jen thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of a family playing in the fire hydrant.  Notice the mothers outfit.....
This is at the fort at old San Juan.

This is the first hotel we stayed at.  It was the Marriott in San Juan.  The beach here was beautiful.  Both of us having grown up in Northern California had never experienced such warm clear water.

This is me in Old San Juan.  I guess this is the place where the Pina Colada was invented.  I have yet to verify that statement on Wikipedia.  I must say they had the most delicious VIRGIN Pina Coladas I have ever had.

In Old San Juan there is a street that is nothing but high end stores.  Here is a picture of the Burberry store.  All of the stores had apartments above them with really pretty flowers.

The second hotel we stayed at did not have a beach.  Instead it had it's own private island and had a ferry running back and forth all day.  Here is a picture of the island.  Only Jen was able to go because I had to work.

This is another picture of Old San Juan it was really neat because a lot of the streets are still the original cobble stone.

We had a blast and can't wait to go back next year!

Sunday Morning

Today was Sunday and I thought that we should do a little photo shoot with Noah. He was in a really good mood, so we took advantage of it. This is Noah climbing into his little recliner that Grandma Gardner bought him. He loves to just relax in it after a long day of scooting around like a gorilla.I tried to take a picture of Noah wearing my suit jacket, but I could not get one with his eyes open. He quickly ripped it off to show off his manly chest.

Happy Birthday to Jen!

It was Jen's birthday on Wednesday. She is now a quarter century old. She had to go to school, so I decided to bake her a yummy cake. As you can see from the picture above it turned out pretty good. It is a triple layer chocolate cream cheese cake with sprinkles :) Now would be a great opportunity for you to wipe the drool off of your chin and your keyboard.
I think Noah was more excited than all of us for the cake. I think it gave him flash backs of his first birthday party. What a blast he had that day.....



Jen is happier than ever posing with her best friend....... Chocolate! All she wanted for her birthday was a clean house and a yummy cake and that is what she got. We all sat and chowed on cake until we felt like that it was going to come back up.

Trick or Treat!

I was in Ventura all week, and the minute I got back, little Noah was ready to go get some sweet candy. He was all smiles as we got him dressed in his scary monkey outfit. It was well passed his bed time, but he was in an excellent mood and had a great time saying hi to all of our neighbors and friends in the neighborhood. The most surprising thing of all was that he did not mind wearing his traditional monkey culture head dress. He normally does not like to have things on his head so you could tell he was totally feeling the spirit of Halloween!