¡Da me mas gasolina!

Gasolina “la primera bebida alcoholica en una bolsa”. This stuff fills your drunk tank instead of your gas tank. It is packaged like a capri sun, sold in the alcoholic beverage case. For about $0.99 you can get your hands on a high octane rum cocktail. It contains rum, tequila and fruit juice, 11% alcohol. Oh and the straw is placed right inside, for your convience. It says it's only packaged and sold in Puerto Rico. It got me wondering, why?? Is it the alcohol content for the individual package? If you slam two of these it's like drinking 6+ beers. So when we get visitors we may just have to limit drinks to two (like Zombies at the Pearl). They don't taste that great and they have many flavors pink martini, fruit juice, mojito. The locals love it, we bought one last night because two people ahead of us both got them! Just another "interesting" characteristic of beautiful Puerto Rico...get drunk for under $2!! Only after baby girl goes to sleep, of course! :)

Puerto Rico's climate

After a small couple surf sessions @ Maria's and parking lots. I am "surfing" the web and wanted to check out the climate in PR. Our backyard has inspired me to check this out because when it's dry our overgrowth will HOPEFULLY DIE. Eliminating the misquitoes, yeaaaaaaa!! In this tropical paradise we get a rainy season from April to November. Dry season November to April. We get some East trade winds, they are such a relief. The weather here is not as predictable as it is in New Jersey. When you see those big cumulonimbus clouds in the distance you can expect some thunderstorms later. Or when the sky get's all dark & gloomy you know what to expect. Not here, no way, We get clouds, then it's windy and looks like it's going to downpour. They dissapear and the sun shines bright. Or we get mean, monster dark clouds and it downpours for 10 minutes then stops. Unpredictable. Because of the moutains and hills the weather is shifted and pushed and changed and changed again. The poor weather guys in PR. Ha. The difference between winter and summer is a whopping 6° change. Average temp is 82°, it's really humid, bad for curly hair. Tsunamis are a threat here too! We get small earthquakes thanks to the Puerto Rican Fault. It's the deepest part of the Atlantic. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/PR10/13.23.-71.-61.php

another round one

middles action

what's up to everyone.
i just thought i'd give the jersey crew a little preview of what middles was doing this morning. i got out early so luckily i scored a couple before the local isabela crew came out and dominated the lineup.
i actually had a rad day so i might as well share it. i got up at five, made coffee for cora but she decided to sleep in and meet me later. then i packed shit and was out. i got a call from kirk and the grom crew saying it was way overhead and pumping when i was passing the airport. well all of you who know me realize i was freaking out. i parked the car and got out there the first sequence is my first wave, which was before seven. i surfed till after ten, then grabbed a bite with mikey c, his dad, and mark a cool photog from rincon. we went and surfed surfers for a bit. i caught a couple it was like a mushy overhead lowers. then i met up with cora and the neighbors and went to chill at jobos. i kicked it with the girls for a bit, but had to get a couple it just looked to fun. after some grub it was back to middles for a long evening session. when i first got out there was only like six of us and the wind just died, so, shit, i scored again. after all that it was time for some brews. what an awesome day!!!!

Giving Thanks

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

Since this is the last of Sienna's first holidays we had to go big! I cannot believe she will be 1 years old on December 12th! It seems like only yesterday she was our lil bundle of joy and now she's a walking, talking and giggling machine!! She brings joy to our lives every second of the day and that is what we are thankful for, among plenty of other things.

Our health, our family's and friend's health is a blessing in itself. We are so greatful to have such supportive families. We do not know what we would do without you guys. Our friend's are dear to us as well as we miss you guys too! We are thankful for being able to live in such a beautiful island and can't wait to share with EVERYONE. It is an amazing feeling to know that we are loved and everyday people want to see what we are up to. I hope everyone had a great day and ate as much as they could. YUM YUM. I always love a good Thanksgiving meal.

Our meal was fabulous. We cooked with our neighbors downstairs, Shannon and James. They are from Florida and are engaged! They are awesome and we are stoked we are neighbors. They have a blog too so check it out! http://www.shanjamespr.blogspot.com/ They both work at Rincon Surf School, Shannon teaches yoga and James gives surf lessons. Way cool.

Jacques drove up north on Thanksgiving early in the AM. (He will be blogging all about it later). And James went out for a surf. Shan and myself took Coop (their doggie) and Sienna for a walk down our street (up and down hills, it's a work-out!) and did some Roxy excersizes (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=55D729FACA7E5789&search_query=roxy+athletix). After a rinse we got to cooking! We made green bean/broccoli casserole (PR doesn't have those crunchy onion things so we used plaintain chips instead), mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (I tried but burnt them 4 times, so they were nixed), stuffing, salad, mac-n-cheese and roasted chickens! There is a little story behind the chickens...we wanted to originally get road side chickens. These guys set up shop on the side of the highway and roast chickens all day out of their vans. For about $7 bucks you get a tender, delicious, greasy chicken. We were like screw the turkey! We'll buy some PR chickens. When we went to buy them the guy was done for the day. A lot of people must think the same cause he was sold out and closed! We decided "ok, we'll cook a turkey, no big deal" jumped into the car headed back to town to the supermarcado. A PACKED PACKED supermarcado. NO TURKEYS. SOLD OUT. Ok, so we buy our own fresh chickens and roast them ourselves! The men handled the birds because we are not into performing surgery on poultry. Shannon and I went out for a fun surf session, Maria's was chest high on sets and clean. We came back to the men in the kitchen, bird in the oven and empty bellies ready to fill up!! Everything turned out delicious and thanks to both our Mom's (Shannon and I's) we had beautiful decorations! All we were missing was pumpkin rolls. Mmmmm, hopefully I will get my pumpkin roll fill on Christmas...

Here are some pics of Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a good one!!

The only "fall" we are seeing is water!!

It was flat a couple days ago so we decided to go to the waterfalls!! We tried to find it last time we were visiting PR and got totally lost. But alas, we found it this time!! It is soooo beautiful. Fresh water, cold, refreshing fresh water. In the pictures you will see where people are standing behind the waterfall is where you jump. We think it's about 30-40ft. People were drinking and chillin there all day. Sienna loved the water there too!! The hike down was HARD, even with our pimpin stroller. On the way back I carried Sienna and Jacques drug the stroller behind him. It was a work-out, my legs are still sore! When we get visitors this is a sure thing to do!!!

Dog days!!

Sienna with our neighbor's dog COOP. (pronouned coupe). He is the sweetest doggie to her, they are best buds. But Zoe is still the bestest dog EVER and we miss her & everyone!! Enjoy the giggles!!