Hey loves! I am back from Puerto Rico (unfortunately!!) Hope everyone enjoyed the guest posts while I was gone! The weather in San Juan was beautiful and it was an amazing time. I will split my recap into two posts since I have a million pictures! Let’s start with Friday!
I woke up bright and early at 5 am and headed to the airport. I found the rest of the bachelorette party before boarding the plane! We arrived at San Juan around 12:00 in the afternoon and headed to our hotel. We stayed at the San Juan Water and Beach Club. It was so pretty inside!
Everything was blue! This was the bar and lobby.
Our hotel room! Our entire hotel looked like a club!
We were greeted with champagne and chocolate covered strawberries sent by the groom. We popped the bottle open right away before heading to the beach!
We got to the beach and ordered some frozen drinks and lunch.
I forget what this drink was called but it was amazing!
I got a Shrimp Caesar salad with balsamic instead of Caesar dressing. Very fun to eat on the beach!
After the beach we went to the rooftop pool.
View from the pool!
Later that night we went out for drinks and dinner! We started at the Parrot Club in Old San Juan. I got a vodka soda with a splash of passion fruit juice. Delicious!
As soon as we mentioned bachelorette party, the free shots arrived.
Next we headed over to a bar that was “home of the pina colada.”
It was delicious! We made friends with every bartender and waiter we met! They were all super friendly. It was a nice change from the typical New York non-friendly people.
Next we headed over to a restaurant called DragonFly. It was a tapas restaurant that was supposed to be amazing! We ordered a bunch of different dishes to share! They were all extremely delicious!
Rock Shrimp Tempura Tacos:
Shrimp and Lobster Dumplings:
Salmon Poke: sesame scallion marinated salmon ceviche-avocado-platano gaufrettes:
Asian Marinated Churrasco (steak) with wasabi dragonfries:
Tuna Tartare:
Szechuan Glazed Baby Back Ribs with papaya and jicama slaw:
It was all so so good! I also had a few of these:
After dinner, half of us decided to continue our night and went to the El San Juan Hotel.
We found some salsa teachers and danced for a while!
We headed back to our hotel after and went up to the club.
The club had beds everywhere which was really cool. After some more dancing we decided to head back since we had plans for a rainforest tour the next day. Unfortunatelythe club was right outside our room so we could hear everything! We spent about 20 minutes trying to shut the shower window to block out the noise! Then we decided to turn on the heat for minute because our room was freezing. They love air conditioning in Puerto Rico. The heat made our hotel smell like a fire! I went to sleep but one of the employees came up to our room because he smelled the burning! Luckily I missed all of this drama!
The next morning we woke up bright and early for the rainforest! The next night was also the “real” bachelorette party….TO BE CONTINUED!
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THAT LOOKS LIKE SOOO MUCH FUN!! yall all look freaking AWESOME!
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Everything looks like so much fun!! I know a bachelor party that was in PR this past weekend and stayed at the El San Juan….hahahahah. Can’t wait for Part 2.
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Missy Maintains Reply:
April 21st, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I probably met them! We met 2 bachelor parties at that hotel lol.
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Wow, that is one insane hotel room! How did you sleep?! lol
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Missy Maintains Reply:
April 21st, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I didn’t!
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You and your girls look beautiful!
The food looks amazing and I’ve never seen a hotel like that! Looking forward to reading about the rainforest.
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beautiful pics! you look so happy and gorgeous! what an amazing hotel and drinks and food yum!!
next time i get caesar i am asking for balsamic..can’t believe i never thought of that!! so much healthier
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that looks like so much fun! beautiful pictures!!
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YAY what a great time and welcome back! I saw some of the pics already on FB and you and your gals look SO happy and beaitiful! you prob have a killer tan too!
your room loosk awesome…very ‘clubby’ indeed but so contemporary and has just an overall great vibe!
best thing about vacays are the tropical drinks!!
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Everything looks so fun!! The hotel is awesome, I love the blue- and how nice of the groom to send champagne!! Can’t wait to hear the rest of your recap!!
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Oh my gosh….I can’t get over your hotel room! I’d wake up feelin’ like I should slam a red bull and hit the dance floor. That is awesome!
You all look AMAZING, too – bet the boys of Puerto Rico loved you!
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Ugh! Im so jealous!
You look amazing in all the pics!
and I really really miss PR! its been 5 years since I have been there. I am planning to go there before my 30th to find relatives that my father has never met!
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Oh my gosh! What a fun girls vacay!! What a bunch of hotties.
PS you won my giveaway. The CSN folks will be contacting you so that you can claim your prize.
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Sounds like great fun and great food! O hope it was a really refreshing break
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Such a cool room!! You look gorgeous.
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Ahhhh I am so jealous!! Especially because I know you’re a party girl, like myself
It looks like you had a really amazing time. And thanks again SO much for letting me guest post. You’re a doll! xoxo
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Aww, every meal looks delicious. Did you have any after parties in your hotel room? Does look like a club in the room. lol
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Missy Maintains Reply:
April 21st, 2010 at 10:03 pm
No after parties but plenty of pregame parties!
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It looks like you guys had a blast!! I need a friend to have a bachelorette party like that! All the food and drinks look amazing!
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hahaha your bachelorette party totally kicked mine in the behind! seriously it looks like a great time! hahaha why couldn’t we have gone to puerto for my friend’s bach party!
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Great recap! So glad you documented all that yummy food from DragonFly… and I totally forgot about the heat incident haha… yayy bachelorette!! Can’t wait for part 2!!!!!!
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Looks like you ladies had a great time! I can’t wait to see moe pics and I LOVE the fact yall became friends with the bartenders. And that is one modern hotel, looks really cool!
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Wow – amazing recap, Missy!
Looks like y´all had tons of fun
Have a great day!
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela
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Woah-I totally missed that you were in Puerto Rico! I’ve been a little outta the blog world lately. How exciting. Everything looks fantastic-the beach, the food, the view. Ughh, I’m so jealous.
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