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| Waiting at St. Croix airport |
It wouldn't be a Hayley and Lizzy adventure/trip with something going wrong! Our flight for San Juan was scheduled to depart at 215 Monday afternoon. Problem was that we worked the night before, and of course I overslept! Woke up at 1230, showered packed and hit the car to go pick up Reggie, our third musketeer. Okay so we get to the airport, have about 30 min till the flight leaves, and we have to go through Customs. What the crap? We are going from one US territory to another? Who knows. So we make it through customs and security, after stressing for like 20 minutes, and find out our flight had been DELAYED! Maintenance problems. At first they told us it would be 7pm before we could leave, but they were able to get another plane there by 515! We also each got a $12 voucher for snacks. Really? $12 for 3 hour delay in an airport smaller than Montgomery?! Oh well, we got TONS of snacks :) So we finally got our flight, flew to San Juan, and landed! We then headed to the rental car place got a car and headed our awesome hotel!
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| Goofing around |
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| Photoshoot |
We were irritated again once we got to the hotel just thinking about our flight delay and the fact we lost so much time of being able to enjoy this hotel. It was 8pm by the time we got checked in and took our stuff up to the room, so of course we were starving by that point. The hotel had 5 restaraunts, so we had plenty of options. We looked at all the menus, and found one that looked good and had a veggie selection for Reggie. After dinner, we took a stroll along the grounds, out to the beach.Next comes the part where I freaked out! We headed to the casino, and of course the woman at the door wanted to see only my ID, and of course it was no where to be found! I bet the lady thought this girl isn't 21 and shes just pretending to have lost her license. So anyway, we retraced our steps outside and Reggie found it with his hawk eyes! LIFESAVER!!! So, we went back to the casino and I proudly showed my 27 year old ID :) Reggie and I watched Hayley go from machine to machine, play a few slots, and lose some money. Then it was time for me, her good luck charm, to choose the slot machine. We ended up winning her $20 back and then some!! Woohoo!! Next it was on to Roulette, we decided to only spend what we won, so she bet $10, that didn't last long. We don't have that type of luck.
Well grandpa, Reggie, was getting tired, so we dropped him off in the room and then headed out for a photoshoot around the hotel. Keep in mind it was about 130am, and we had only had about 3 hours of sleep in 36 hours. So delirum was the name of this game! We walked on the beach, around the pool, stopped at the bar, got in trouble for being on the counters at the bar, hugged a palm tree (my fav thing to do when I'm sleeped deprived), etc. Pretty much had a blast in Hayley and Lizzy fashion! So finally around 3, we made it back to the room and crashed!!
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| About to head out on The Beast |
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| The Beast Stats |
The next morning we all woke up and headed for breakfast. Reggie and I had the most amazing omlette ever, and some awesome fresh fruit! After we stuffed ourselves we took one last stroll around this amazing hotel and thought about all the fun things we could have done had we not had a 3 1/2 hours delay :( Oh well, we still had a blast as usual! After getting our bags, we headed to concierge to figure out how to get to the Zip Line, Toro Verde, only to find out we were 2 hours away!!! Oops. And we needed to be there in 1 hour. So we headed to car and Reggie put the Hyandai Accent into ful drive! We were doing some fast and furious stuff, okay maybe not, b/c grandpa was driving haha. So we get there around noon, get checked in and they tell us our tour starts at 1pm. We figured it out that if it started on time, we could do the tour and make our flight at 7pm. Whew! Well, that was if everything "started on time." I guess Puerto Rico was on island time also. It didn't end up starting till around 1:45, so instead of being able to go on 2 tours ("The Beast", and the Zip Line regular tour) we were only able to to The Beast, which is fine since it is the longest and highest Zip line in the world! Just wish we had had time to do both. Well I won't bore y'all with the rest of this blog, as some of you might be bored already, but we had an amazing time, made it back to drop off our rental car and make our flight in plenty of time (for once!). Our next adventure is to St. Thomas this weekend with Hayley's parents! Till next time!!
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| View from The Beast |
~Hayley and Elizabeth~
Well grandpa, Reggie, was getting tired, so we dropped him off in the room and then headed out for a photoshoot around the hotel. Keep in mind it was about 130am, and we had only had about 3 hours of sleep in 36 hours. So delirum was the name of this game! We walked on the beach, around the pool, stopped at the bar, got in trouble for being on the counters at the bar, hugged a palm tree (my fav thing to do when I'm sleeped deprived), etc. Pretty much had a blast in Hayley and Lizzy fashion! So finally around 3, we made it back to the room and crashed!!
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