Day 76, Year 10: Feliz Navidad from Puerto Rico
Date: Thursday, December 25, 2014
Weather: Partly Sunny, Temp in the 80’s F
Location: Visiting with Justin, Jo, Ziggy, and Coco in Aguada, PR
I’m sure you’ve heard the Christmas song, Feliz Navidad. So sing along.
We want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
We want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
We want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of our hearts.
We do hope you had a Merry Christmas. We certainly did. We opened presents for what seemed like hours and the only complaint came from Coco who cried uncontrollably when there were no more presents to open. Coco and Ziggy were up VERY early, before the sun was fully up, but Ziggy was so excited when he ran over to the guest house to tell us that Santa had come and filled our stockings that there was no choice but to join in the jubilation. We all rallied and opened all the stocking gifts from Santa before we stopped to have breakfast. We had that wonderful acai fruit bowl that we had when we went out a few nights ago–acai, homemade granola, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, papaya, fresh pineapple, and coconut oil. Yummy, yummy, yummy. This gave us the energy to continue opening presents. It was a BIG Christmas. There were all sorts of remote-controlled vehicles, Legos, doll furniture, both big and little for Coco’s dollhouse, a gardening kit for Ziggy, and Monarch butterfly wings and tutu for Coco. Justin got a surfboard as well as a quiver and arrows for his bow. Among many other things, Jo got an auto-harp which makes beautiful music. Wow! Mark got a drawing app for his tablet, a new drill bit set, wooden puzzles, and a much needed dive suit as his old one is thread-bare. I got the new Ken Follett trilogy which will make great passage reading, a collapsible bucket, and an Amazon gift certificate to share with Mark (if he is a good boy). There were many, many more gifts, but I won’t bore you with more detail except to say one more time that it was a fantastic Christmas. Thank you, JJZ&C!!! We talked to Heather, Jed, and boys via Skype video. They were having a wonderful Christmas in Maine. But seeing them made us wish that we could all be together. And we also had a Skype video call with Jo’s family in England. We got to see Kitty, Jo’s sister’s new baby, which was quite a Christmas treat. Justin, Jo, and kids will be flying to England on Saturday, and they are so excited about that trip. After all the presents were opened, we had a huge feast in the late afternoon—roasted chicken breasts, baked root veggies, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, Mark’s cranberry salad, broccoli, and later in the evening we had fruit crumble. And between dinner and dessert, we all headed to the beach. “Let’s go surfin’ now.” It was low, low tide and kids had a ball in the shallow pools of water near the shore. The waves further out weren’t great, but Justin did get to stand up on that new surf board for the first time. I think surfer Justin and auto-harp playing Jo might have been more excited about Christmas than Ziggy and Coco—and that’s going some!
Tomorrow at noon Justin and Jo have arranged for someone to pick us up to take us to the airport in San Juan. And if flights go smoothly, Lee Kaufman will pick us up at the airport in Myrtle Beach at 10 pm. Then we will switch gears. We’ll transform back into cruising mode and spend the weekend and Monday preparing for four months of fun in the sun in Florida and the Bahamas.
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