Puerto Rico - Day 4

Day four was back to Old San Juan. I had a little better plan than I did Sunday, but not much better. At least when I got dropped off, I knew where I was. My first stop was city hall. It looked a lot more impressive on my guide map. The plaza in front of city hall was nice.

After that was Cathedral of San Juan Bautista (John the Baptist). I didn't know what I was looking for and almost missed it. It kind of plain on the outside, but very pretty on the inside. Juan Ponce de León is buried there. (That was a lot of hard work for such a little accent) Across the plaza from the church is the Children's Museum, so the plaza had some cute kid friendly statues.

Next stop was La Fortaleza. This is where the governor lives. The governor must have been in, because there were police everywhere.
It was at this point that it started to feel like it might rain, so I decide to go the La Princesa. My guide map said there was a museum there and it looked pretty big. I can waste so pretty serious time in a half way decent museum. This was not even half way decent. They had about 20 paintings, all by the same paint, and they all looked alike. Personally, I didn't think they were all that great. So I sat outside the museum and waited on the rain with the plan to go inside the museum for cover.

When the rain finally came, it didn't leave. This was not one of the fast moving storms we had so far. After about 30 minutes and watching the radar on my phone I decide that the rain was going to be a while, so I wrapped up anything that could be damaged by water and went out in the rain. Then I made a bee-line to El Morro so I could get a poncho.

After I got a poncho, I went to San Cristóbal. Even though I went there Sunday, I didn't get a chance to fully explore the fort. Thankfully, the part I got to explore Sunday was the top level, because that was closed for safety reason. While I was exploring the fort, the rain turned in the a thunderstorm. I was in this room that was telling about when they demolished part of the wall so people could come into Old San Juan. (I really should know the story better because I "watched" it so many times.) They had a video telling the story and it had exploding sounds on it. Well, lighting struck fairly close at the same time the video made a exploding sound and it scared the fool out of me. I had to sit down for a while and collect myself.

The thunderstorm finally passed and I found a covered area to contact Jason to find out if they were coming to Old San Juan for dinner. They weren't. I was glad because I looked awful.

I went back to the hotel and freshened myself up. We ate at Che's with a bunch of people Jason works with. The meal was very good, but took forever. I was very glad when the day was over.