PR: Day 6 - food, rain forest, burns, and bio-bay

It's our 2nd to last day in PR and we woke up and hit the ground running!  We used Yelp again and had such good food!  Pan Mas Rico here in Fajardo was A-May-Zing!  Chris got a pastrami sandwich on sweet bread and Coke (finally saw Coke at a restaurant) and LouAnna got a #2 breakfast platter of 2 fried eggs, honey ham, sweet toasted bread and a cafe con leche (coffee with milk - highlighted in the picture below).  Chris ordered the small sandwich thanks to a review and so LouAnna took a second picture of his big hand on the "small" sandwich for reference.  😂  The entire order was less than $10!  😮  Did LouAnna talk to anyone while we were here, you ask?  Why yes, she did.  haha!  An older gentleman wished us "buena salud" (he told us meant "good health" in English) while we were eating and then asked what do we say on the mainland when people are eating?  Puerto Ricans say "good health" so that the food is a blessing and nourishes the body.  LouAnna explained we really don't say anything but that "good health" is such a lovely sentiment.  Puerto Rico - you are adorable!

Then, we headed out to El Yunque National Forest.  It's a rainforest; the only one in the U.S. National Forest System.  Chris and LouAnna aren't hikers, so we went, got out and took pictures, and left.  But, at least we can say we've been to a rainforest and it was very pretty and lush.  The road up the mountain was very narrow in parts and also had a lot of big potholes so driving up (and down) was an adventure.  A jeep would have handled it like a champ, but we were in our rented Kia Soul.  😄  The amount of bamboo in this forest was amazing and beautiful.  Some bamboo was about 10" in diameter; gorgeous! 😍

Then, we headed back to Luquillo Beach.  We checked out some shopping at the Kiosks, which is like shops you'd see along a boardwalk in the mainland.  We didn't have any food because we had just eaten a couple of hours prior, though we hear the food here is very good.  It was mostly cloudy today and the water was a bit rougher, but it was still delightful for us.  Due to the overcast, we didn't put on sunscreen...until it was too late.  Both LouAnna and Chris burned today...we laid on our stomachs for too long.  Chris's back is burned, though not badly and LouAnna's back and the backs of her pasty white legs. 😖 Luckily the condo has aloe in the fridge and Chris spread on a generous amount on her legs once we returned home at the end of the day.  Aaaaahhhhhhhh!  🙌

Lastly, we headed out to do a Bioluminescent bay tour with Yokahu Kayak Trips at Laguna Grande here in Fajardo.  There are several tour companies to choose from but we recommend this tour.  Chris and LouAnna finally found something they aren't good at; two-person kayaking.  Chris's strokes are so much stronger than LouAnna's that we had some trouble kayaking upstream, which resulted in being escorted/towed 😂 to Laguna Grande by one of the guides; LouAnna was fine with that - it was super narrow in the canal that led to the lagoon and it was SO.VERY.DARK anyway.  On the way back, we figured it out enough to navigate ourselves the entire way back (it was about a mile each way).  👏 Also, for the ladies; LouAnna can vouch for tour guides who were all very nice and handsome. 😂  The tour lasted 2 hours and it was a great night to do it!

Tomorrow is our last day in PR.  Since we are both burned; we are going to lay low and get ready to head home.  We fly out at 2am and have about a 12 hour 😩 layover in Orlando and should get home around 6pm on Wednesday.  

We love you PR!  💝 😘