More jet setting insanity

On Friday we headed down from Cincinnati to San Juan to go to Jose's buddy's wedding in Dorado, PR on Saturday.  I keep telling people that when we lived in Cincinnati we would've NEVER made the long trip from Cincinnati to Puerto Rico just for a weekend.  But now living in Europe it puts everything into perspective, an 8 hour trip to Puerto Rico doesn't seem long at all!  While the weather forecast was supposed to be rainy and dreary, our friends got super lucky as they got an absolutely beautiful day!  Sunny but not too hot, beautiful sunset and an incredibly simple yet beautiful setting.  My highlights for the weekend were:
  • A little bit of time in the beach/pool 
  • A little bit of time with abuela from Peru 
  • An incredibly beautiful wedding ceremony 
  • Getting to catch up with old friends (barely but still enough time to see what they're up to!)  

  • Incredible food (not pictured!), and
  • Finding this graduation gift from my Granny (RIP) while spending a little time in my mom's house.
 

I am burdened by this feeling of not having taken good care of that house due to being away from PR. At some point I need to find a week's time to go down to Puerto Rico and clean out all the junk that's piled up over the years so that we can maybe begin some remodeling of things that have fallen in disarray. Don't know when we'll be back in Puerto Rico next but I will certainly look forward to it, even if it includes an intense week of working on the house.  Oh, and once again, the diet begins tomorrow. :) 

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