WE MADE IT!

We finally made it here after a number of delayed flights and and unexpected over night stay in Denver on Sunday night. Luckly, as we were sitting in the Denver airport at midnight... we just looked up and there was Andrew Campbell (a good friend of Jon's from college). He was there with Fisher (another guy that went to college with us) and they were trying to figure out a way for Fisher and his fiance to get back to Phoenix that night... turns out that we weren't going to leave Denver until 8:30 am on Monday so we ended up driving back to Boulder with Campbell and sleeping in Big Brad's bed that night (he was not there... again, lucky! :) just kidding). Anyway, after a dramatic transfer in Boston, we ended up making our San Juan flight and arrived in Puerto Rico at about 7:30 pm on Monday night (8 hours later than expected). We were missing 4 of the 5 bags we had checked, but at least we were here!

Tuesday, we ended up getting our bags brought to us that afternoon. We took our Rodeo (that we purchased without seeing) to the shop to get the oilpan fixed (actually, it still leaks... oh well). And we met our neighbor (Andrea, another American teacher at Guamani) and she took us in her car to go shopping and out to dinner.

Here are some pictures of our place so far. As you can see we are not unpacked yet (that is the plan for today). We are thinking of painting a wall or two in our living room (you can't have plain white walls in Puerto Rico... especially with a couch like THAT!). We will post a more updated video when we are all set up.

You may confuse our house with a bird cage, but that is the way that most houses look here. I suppose that it has a dual purpose. First, protection against hurricanes (the real purpose) and second, protection against theives (it makes me feel better).

We have a master bedroom and two guest rooms. (So book your stay soon!) Two rooms with full beds and the other with bunk beds. We have a back porch (also inclosed in bars), a view of the ocean out our back yard (barely, but it is there!), a nice bathroom, a canepa and mango tree in our backyard, and "good enough" kitchen.