Puerto Rico: Good Eats and Laughs

One night, the Littles ate early at the house, and Aaron sent me with the big people on a Dons run. 

Dons in another country?! Peak. The boys were so happy to have nuggies and Big Macs that they joked they were going to blitz Aaron and smooch him right on the face when they got home. It was so funny. Ryan couldn’t do it and left brogan hanging. There were so many laughs like this all week. Younger kids, too. I sometimes don’t realize how funny my kids are until we are on vacation and only have each other for entertainment. They feed off each other well. We had so many epic moments that kept things light and joyful. 

Another night, we were out swimming in the house pool.  I was just doing laps and Reese was throwing a few pairs of goggles into the deep end while the boys had their backs turned toward the house and then when I said, “go!” they raced over and dove around to find them. This game went on for a solid hour and quickly got competitive. Reese and I eventually realized she could throw the goggles while I was in the deep end, and I could gather them up, hide them behind the back of my suit, and I could swim right in front of the kids, and shout Go without them having a clue I had taken all the goggles. 

So they dove around forever on the dark, frustrated and unable to find them. Reese and I continued our laps and I would pass the goggles to Soren so he “won” every time. 

We hustled those older boys for a solid 30 minutes. 😂😂 they were baffled by their inability to dive and Soren’s increased skill and techniques. 

When we came clean and told them we’d been cheating, Reese and I were dunked and slimed out. 

We found some horses next to a beach we checked out on the north shore. 

During a lunch stop, I turned to aaron and said “did you see that giant pink swirly roof?” Aaron responded with: “yes and I don’t know what they sell in there, but it’s our next stop.”  Naturally. 

We had to do the coconut milk at least once right? Bear and Soren later cracked it open with their hulk strength and ate the coconut flesh. 

We found a restaurant for mofongo and pinchos and left stick figure us on a wall 

What the what? China flavor? Logan’s car had just left or we would have taken a pic of both our Chinese boys with this 😂  Not cool, Puerto Rico! 

Homemade choco tacos?! Nutella ice cream inside, Nutella chocolate. Peanuts and almonds outside. 

Mickey cones 

Soren really wanted to buy local produce. We found a guy selling pineapples and HUGE mangoes from the back of a pickup truck. I only had $4 in cash on me but pulled over anyway and negotiated the whole transaction in Spanish. Very proud of my efforts! 

Nutella stuffed pistachio and mixed nuts chocolate dipped popsicles because all things with nuts 

I mean come on 😍 

There was a coconut ice cream place just 2 min walk from our house in Rincón 

One of our favorite things about Ryan is the way he matches our food energy and understands concepts like “emergency donuts.” Which is the same thing as “donuts”. Always a yes. Always a necessity. We found these on the way back from crash boat beach. Two other times, we stumbled upon Gaby’s hot fresh tiny donuts that were the best thing we ate all week. So good, one of my kids better name their first born child Gaby as a tribute to their greatness. 

Tiny pancakes and ice cream. Yes. 

Pizza with fried chicken and Mac n cheese on it? 

God bless America. 

Soren loved all the produce. These avocados were giant! Reviews of the papaya were mixed.