Puerto Rico Recap!

Good Morning!

I am home and all settled in after our week vacation in Puerto Rico!  Only, I haven’t quite come out of vacation mode yet because I totally missed the 6am Title Boxing class this morning. Doh!

I was up but just couldn’t get moving in that direction.

It has taken me forever to get this post together because I have so many pictures to share and want to tell you guys every detail about our trip.

I'll do my best to sum it up.

Where We Stayed:

We stayed at a resort community in Humacao, Puerto Rico (located on the west side), called  Palmas Del Mar together with Justin’s Dad and Stepmom.

The property was beautiful. It was a gated community. 

It had a beautiful marina. A couple of our favorite places to eat were at the marina.  It was fun to see all the yachts.

There were some BIG ONES!

Two golf courses.

Two pools.

13 restaurants, a mini grocery store, and a couple of other little shops.

The only problem was, we were there during their low season, so only a handful of the restaurants were open and some of them were not even open until the last couple of days we were there.  It was kind of bizarre.  We never really knew anyone’s hours.  Nothing was posted.

The beach was really rough.  The ocean on that side has a super strong current and is suited better for surfing than lounging.  There were signs posted all over the beach about NOT swimming!

We still walked up and down the beach each day and took in the ocean as much as possible. It may not have been good for lounging and swimming, but it was beautiful!  Hearing and seeing those waves crashing against the shore was awesome!

One day, we drove 30 minutes north to Fajardo and spent the day on a clean beach with calm water!  This was a glorious day!

On another day, we drove to the rain forest. Ugh…not our thang!  The rain forest was beautiful, but the road to get there had Justin and I so shaken that we will probably never go there again.  AND, the National Park part of it was closed once we got to the top!

That is the closest we will ever be to the rain forest in Puerto Rico!

Vacation Workouts:

The first two days, I did great! I got my fanny up and outside for some running.  There were a couple of pretty steep hills I used for sprints and lunges.

On the third day, Justin walked the beach with me and then we treaded water in the pool.  My will to exercise started to dwindle on the fourth day.  I let it go, though.  It felt good to sleep in and do whatever I wanted to do.

Vacation Food:

Of course, we had some good food!  The places that were open were all good.  We had our favorites that we kept revisiting.

Our favorite lunch spot was a tapas bar in the marina. It was part of a fancier french restaurant Chez Daniel, which we enjoyed for dinner.

We were all starving on the first day!

We ordered different stuff and shared.  I ordered the chicken and peppers with french fries.  I had this a couple of times while we were there!

A couple of other things we tried at the tapas bar:

So, the french restaurant, Chez Daniel, was super good!

We all LOVED everything we ordered!

You can tell by all the pictures, we ate at this restaurant more than once!

Another place we liked was called La Brochette.  We ate here twice as well.  I got the same thing both times!

We found a place that made chocolate martinis and enjoyed those along with Bailey’s on ice for several night caps!

After a week…..

It felt good to come home.  We feel like we got all the sun, ocean, and good food we needed to last us until next year!

It is always good to get a way for a week and take a break to truly appreciate our everyday life.   I love that I get to work along side Justin everyday. I appreciate the life we have built together and that the business we have allows us to care for three people that teach us to get the most out of every day and never take our lives for granted!

Happy Monday!