PR2: Day 4: Around Ponce

In absolutely no surprise to anyone, we slept until 1 in the afternoon. Which was probably a good thing, although it did give us a late start on the day. Accordingly, we scrapped our earlier plans to go out to caja muerta? I think that's what it's called... it means coffin-island. Instead we showered (with towels!) and went out to Denny's to meet our hosts boyfriend (not that he wants to be called that).

We stayed through dinner teasing the new couple with inventive innuendos, avoiding the rain, and folding paper cranes (Denny's has really pretty placemats) before we got bored enough to set out to go see the giant cross that overlooks Ponce - sort of a Rio de Janero wanna-be. As you can see, it's kinda ghetto, but it doesn't look bad from a distance. Since it was a Tuesday night, nothing was open, but that also meant no one was around, so we just hung out in the area looking over the city. Slightly down the street was an old, empty, house across from a mansion... the mansion had cameras that covered the main entrance to the old house, but left the gate to the side uncovered. I was up for jumping fences, but a reach through the gate found the lock mechanism, which let the girls come with. We took a few good pictures in a gazebo overlooking the city... but without a tripod they're only half as good as they could be. I am getting better at being still, so there's that. Maybe tonight? Maybe... we're bad at planning though, so maybe not.

After we left the overlook (with zero police interaction. Go team!) we went down to the center of Ponce, which was also mostly closed... but the ice-cream place was open! (Go team!) While we ate we looked at the fountains and the sand-castle (in town square for Carnival) before going back to our host's for wii and rockband.