Hello! Glad everyone enjoyed Part 1 of my Puerto Rico recap! I will start from where I left off yesterday!
The 2nd day of our trip was the rainforest tour! It was pretty cloudy out so it actually worked out perfectly that we did not have a beach day planned. After about 4 hours of sleep, we woke up for some breakfast. They gave us free continental breakfast for 2 of the days.
It included, fruit, juice, coffee, a cheese and strawberry pastry. Talk about sugar overload! This was not the best breakfast after a night of drinking. I stuck with the fruit and coffee and had some of the cheese pastry for a little protein.
Waiting for our tour bus to arrive…
It was about an hour long drive but very pretty!
It was pouring in the rainforest so the ponchos were probably the best idea ever!
We walked for an hour or two through the pretty rainforest on thin trails. It was a great workout! There were tons of hills and climbing involved!
There were no monkeys but I did see a snail….
And a bat…..
And a cat!!!
Hector (another tour guide we made friends with) picked up a plant and lit in on fire. It smelled so good! It was similar to a candle.
We were all famished after the rainforest! The fruit was not filling at all. We stopped at an authentic Puerto Rican food stand for lunch. Hector warned us that everything would be fried.
Check out the doggie on the roof! I felt bad when it started raining again!
These were some of our options…
I got a chicken pastelle with rice and beans. They said it was wrapped in sweet potato and some other vegetables. It was really good!
I also tried a chicken taco! Nice and fried…and delicious.
After the tour, some of the girls rested and showered but Melanie (the bride) and I decided to take a walk by the hotel to explore.
Yes..cockfights. This guy told us ladies were free so we walked in out of curiosity. It was insane!!! All these men were cheering the chickens on so that they would stab each other. We saw one die and immediately ran away. It was so disturbing. I heard worse things happen there but I was not staying any longer!
Bachelorette Party!
Saturday night was our official party night. We stocked up on some goodies…
We pregamed in our club room. I had the techno blasting of course!
We put on our gear and headed out to dinner!
We went to a restaurant by our hotel that had pretty much everything. I got salmon and shrimp topped with mango sauce. It was amazing! Excuse the pink backdrop behind my plate!!
Our new waitor friend 
One of the waitors even came to the club with us that night!
Hi Daisy!
After pregaming at a few bars, we headed to Senor Frogs. It became spring break all over again! I have probably 100 more pictures but I will only post what I think is (somewhat) appropriate!
And I’ll leave it at that….
Once we got home around 5:00 in the morning, we were starving! We tried for room service but they weren’t serving anything. The only 2 things open were Burger King and pizza. We found Burger King first!
We got fries and grilled chicken salads. I would probably never eat chicken from there again but desperate times call for desperate measures. It could have been much worse right?
3 hours later we woke up for the beach! It was georgous and sunny out so we decided we’d rather recover outside. Another horrible breakfast… I ate the fruit plus a Larabar.
We hung out at the beach and then headed to the El San Juan pool to find some friends we made from the night before.
Their pool was so fun! There was house music playing, a pool bar, and 3 hot tubs!
We had a few drinks and headed back out for another tour! This was called the Bio Bay tour. Hector came and picked us up and drove us to a cute town for the tour.
I don’t have pictures from the actual tour since we were in little kayaks! We did this at night so it was pitch black out! We took our kayaks through little canals over the black water! SO scary. We had to go when it was dark out because the water glowed!
Why does the water glow? (from the Biobay website))
This unique bay contains up to 720,000 single-celled bioluminescent dinoflagellates per gallon of water. These half-plant, half-animal organisms emit a flash of bluish light when agitated at night.
The tour was really awesome but very creepy! We could see the fish-like creatures glowing in the water. One even jumped into our friend’s kayak! Luckily our boat never tipped over because I would have flipped out!
We got back around 10:00 at night and headed to dinner.
We went to another Puerto Rican restaurant. We all shared some delicious guacamole.
I got grilled chicken with rice and beans. I promise there was chicken under all of that cheese!! I scraped most of it off to prevent any stomach issues from occuring!
After dinner we checked out a few bars but nothing was really happening so we called it an early night.
We spent our last day at the beach before heading back to New York!
It was such a fun trip! I want to go backkkk!! One of these days I am moving somewhere warm!
Well I am off! Thanks for reading!! Have a good day!
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LOVE the pics Missy! those chairs wat senor frogs are too cute! I want those in my house hahaah
you and your friends look like you had SUCH a good time! I would feel the same way with the breakfast!! I am so not a pastry person in the AM…good thing you had some larabars!!
xoxo
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omg your recaps are sooo good. glad you did this while it was fresh in our minds! we really did jam soo much stuff into the trip! and i was dying when i saw the peen behind your dinner at la casita haha. let’s seriously have an annual girls weekend. or just make someone get married once a year so we can have a bachelorette somewhere tropical. either way
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Missy Reply:
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Yes! Or… have a girl’s honeymoon after your own honeymoon lol.
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Love how the face moisturizer is in the shot of the goodies. =)
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i am so glad you got to try a pastele! i love pasteles! They take FOREVER to make!
Why have i not had an experience like THIS at puerto rico… oh, because i stayed with friends and family! LoL.
There are a lot of homeless dogs there and it breaks my heart! I think your pics are amazing. I cant wait to pick your brain about the par-tay over dinner this weekend
xoxoxoxox
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OMG it looks like such a wonderful trip! It’s sad that I have never been to PR especially when I HAVE family out there lol….
I laughed soooo HARD at those seats! classic
Dude core fusion is really working out for you! you look AMAZING in the pictures!!!!!! I am so proud of you =)
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Missy Reply:
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Ah thanks!!
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OMG what an INSANE trip! Glad you had an amazing time – I bet it was memorable!
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Aw I always take pics of cats when ever I on vacation because I miss my own!! And that one actually kinda looks like mine
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Loved your recaps! Puerto Rico looks like so much fun!!!
Love all the yummy looking food and your bride and bachelorette outfits are too adorable!
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ahhh day two looked AMAZING! hahaha i love love love those thong chairs! they’re hilarious. i’ve hear such awesome things about senor frogs so i’m glad you got to go
and your friends from the night before? sexsi girl.
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Look at your leg when you’re standing (dancing?) on the bar! The unbearable pain of thighs during Core Fusion actually pays off!
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Your trip looks like so much fun!! I love the cat.
I thought the cat was named “Hector” and then I read on! lol
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I LOVE the cock and balls in the food photo above. HILARIOUS!! Did you mean to get that in the shot?? I’m dying over here. And those seats with the butts, I love it. I am dirty, I’ll confess, I am so immature when it comes to that sort of stuff
So it looks like had a FABULOUS time!!! I’m jealous of the pool. Nick and I have decided we want to have a vacation house somewhere warm, but maybe not necessarily move somewhere warm (hurricanes, earthquakes and title waves?? No thanks!). Glad you had a nice time!
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This makes me want to go somewhere tropical RIGHT now!! Glad you girlies had a great time – had no idea there was a rain forest in Puerto Rico?!?
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Looks like you guys had the best time. I was just watching one of those travel shows Anthony Bourdain about PR and decided right there, it was my next BIG trip. Loved the pictures.
And can I say I must be totally naive, I didnt realize that cockfighting was real, I just thought it was that game in the pool.. oopsie. Pretty horrific, if you ask me, but I would have been curious to see it for a moment too.
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You and your ladies are hot!
The rainforest looked beautiful. I’ve always wanted to go there just to see the forests. Beautiful!
I love the club room. I should make one of my bedrooms in my new condo like that! You could come stay over!
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Its a wrap. The Lakers are the nba world champions. Yah! Kobe finally did it without Shaq. Whew!!!! Whew!!! Whew!!! I agree Kobe is easily the mvp. I will be up watching the post game coverage, and of course waiting for you to post your podcast. Have a good evening.
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