Puerto Rico Trip 2024

 First of all, Happy Easter everybody! Hope you all had an amazing day. We definitely had an exciting one. We started off the same way as yesterday and grabbed breakfast at the Panaderia down the road. This time I did not panic and ordered an omelette! Also had bacon and bread in there (sorry for the bad quality picture). Anika Rating: 9.7/10 Also only after I finished eating did I make the connection that it was Easter and I had eggs for breakfast. "Ohhhh, it's Easter! So I got eggs, like Easter Eggs! I'm eating the eggs of my enemies!!" - me "Please, never say that again" - Clover Immediately afterwards we set off for El Yunque National Forest, the rainforest on Puerto Rico! Immediately as we got closer we started to see more signs of tourism. Most notably, the roads weren't as full of potholes as usual.  We ended up at the Visitors Center first so we could get a paper map to follow. It wasn't very crowded and entirely open air, I wouldn't want...

 Got up at 8 after an absolutely amazing night of sleep. Dad says there was a party nextdoor but I only heard the dog barking a few times throughout the night and it didn't really bother me.  For breakfast we went to Panaderia La Borinqueña La Original which had pastries and sandwiches. It's right around the corner and is open until 11:30 at nights so we'll probably end up there pretty often this week. We utterly failed at the first test of our Spanish, took too long in the line and I just ended up ordering something random. Dad says "Rule #1 of traveling: Do Not Panic". I definitely panicked- Anyways, I don't remember the name of the pastry I got but it was covered in powder sugar and had strawberry jam in it! Very flaky too. It was so flaky in fact, it got everywhere- But the coffee was good (even though the 'strong coffee' is just espresso, so we each got 12 ounces of espresso, great way to start the day) Anika Rating: 8/10 Then we got going for the...