Don't Be Crabby

In a desperate plea to warm myself up, I am continuing to peruse my Puerto Rico pictures. I have a suprisingly large number of photos of crabs, I discovered.

From Puerto Rico to DC

So I was walking down the street in Dupont Circle the other day, and I passed this little shop that has great photographs in the window, which I see all the time and I love. For some reason, I had never noticed until now, that one I really liked was actually a street sign from Puerto Rico that I had seen when I was there. In Old San Juan, the street signs are tiles on the sides of buildings, and frequently have pictures to go along with them. The one that was in the store was of Calle de la Luna, but it was a better picture than the one I have of it. That one had a picture of the moon. After my brutal walk in the cold wind this morning, I want to be in Puerto Rico right now. Ahhhh....I'll just bask in the imaginary sunlight for a little while.

A Pictoral Record of Laura Losing her Sunglasses

Today's story is particularly near and dear to my heart, as it is the story of me losing my favorite sunglasses ever....for the third time. Well, technically the second time, because the first pair broke, so I replaced them, and the second pair went missing in a non-remarkable way, but I have photographic evidence of me losing the third pair.

So after a long hard day playing at the beach, we're just about ready to go, but I decide to go rinse off one final time. There's no need to take off my sunglasses, because it will just take a minute.

Let me just play for one more minute....I'm almost ready to leave, I promise!

And this is where the scary movie music comes in...Da Dum, Da Dum, Da Dum, as the approaching wave grows larger and larger, while meanwhile, I am completely unsuspecting, just playing in the water.

Bye-bye Laura.

I throw my hands up in disbelief, as I realize the full enormity of my loss.

Where, oh where, can you be, my beloved sunglasses?

Luckily though, the story has a happy ending. Target has a seemingly unending supply of my favorite sunglasses, so I now possess pairs 4 and 5, just in case.

Old San Juan

Carribean Color

So I've always been inspired by a coffee table book my mom has of Carribean architecture, and I just realized today that I have some pictures of my own that match. What's the point of taking hundreds of photos on vacation if I don't ever do anything with them? So I might as well post them here, because the chances of me ever finishing my photo album are looking mighty slim at the moment.

Ahhhh...the beach

The fourth and fifth days were spent, not so relaxingly, at the beach. The joys to be had with an inner tube on massive ways, while quite enjoyable, are tiring. John has all of those pictures on his computer, so once I get them back I can post them as well, but here are my favorites from Vieques.


The most georgeous tree ever - the Royal Poiciana tree. I bought one a couple of months ago, but unfortunately it went the way of my banana trees.


A common slogan on Vieques - Peace for Vieques. Two-thirds of the island are former bomb testing grounds for the Navy.

El Yunque, the Rainforest

The third day was spent hiking in the rain forest, and then other ridiculous adventures, which involved riding in a plastic chair in a van with a drunk birthday boy, swimming with tiny glowing bacteria, and other things. All the pictures are from the rainforest.

San Juan, Part II

So the second day we took the one metro line in San Juan out to the Botanical Garden, as of course I must check out the public transit. So they totally ripped off the design from DC, just executing it in metal instead of concrete. The trains, the fonts, even the ad boards were identical.


In the garden itself, we saw some wildlife, which was obviously used to posing for pictures.

Old San Juan

I don't have many recent photos to put up, so I'll catch up. These are few of my favorites from Puerto Rico, in Old San Juan.


Puerto Rico is where I fell in love with my digital macro, and now I pretty much only take pictures of things really close up.

This picture (of the water main covers) is my all-time favorite picture of the trip. I took so many pictures of them all over the city.