felicidades!

this is very belated but should be said none the less! Felicidades!! Happy Holidays!! (felicidades, is what i thought meant happy holidays, but after i heard someone tell a birthday girl, felicidades, i began to have doubts...so i asked a girl that we work with who is from vieques, what felicidades meant...it is a way of saying congratulations, best wishes, happiness to you etc. So basically some pretty great stuff! ) 


while talking to my mom the other day she pointed out that i had not posted anything in forever, sorry about that!! So i will try to catch you up on what has been happening down on the island! 


I was able to go home for Christmas! Which was soo great! it was wonderful to see my family and friends! i was only home for about 5 days which was not enough but we made do with the time that i was there! i arrived home the night before christmas eve, i knew it would be cold at home but i wore a long dress and sandals on the plane anyways because it was hot here! So i arrived at the airport at home and went outside to meet my parents and it was ooohh sooo cooold!! people in the airport looked at me like i was a little crazy but i just smiled!! :) my nephew Cole has gotten so big since i have seen him last but i got to see him and my sister everyday, so that i could catch up on my squeezes!! he is soo cute and growing up so fast!! it was so nice to be home! Christmas with my family is always fun! We play and laugh and eat and laugh and play some more!! 5 days at home went by way to fast but i was happy to have been able to spend Christmas with my family! :)  io


 on my way back to puerto rico, i had a 9 1/2 hour layover in Philly!!!! over night!! it was not so fun! that airport is huge, and very confusing. After wandering around for a bit, I find out that the only terminal open over night is C...i am in E. they are doing construction on D. so I asked someone sitting at the information desk how to get to C. I tell them I have a 9 1/2 hour layover and as this woman is explaining to me how to get to C, this other guy starts handing me a pillow, a bottle of water and one of those silver emergency blankets. he stocked me up on the essentials for overnight camping in the airport. so after the woman finishes explaining to me the complicated way to get to C, i start walking....and then...dead end into construction. so i turn around and then turn around again just to make sure i cant get through the construction as i am walking back to the construction i run into a guy who is walking the other way and i must have had this completely confused look on my face because he asked, you stuck here overnight too. i said yes and we started trying to figure out our way to C. we asked more airport employee's and then are informed that we have to go outside!!! OUTSIDE!! seriously! i have on a tank top with a thin hoodie, capri yoga pants and flip flops. i was not dressed in any way for the 20 or so degree weather that was outside. i was happy and warm inside i didnt not want to have to walk outside.... but i toughened up and went for it and it was cold but not so bad...again everyone outside in their parkas were looking at me in my flip flops like i was crazy! we got a little lost but finally made it to C!!  i thought that since they said C was the only terminal open over night that there would be an area with chairs and tv's and vending machines etc to make our stay more comfortable........not the case. we ended up waiting around in a hallway kinda thing with ceiling to floor windows on both sides, with one of those moving sidewalks, on one side of the hallway, and a couple chairs on the other side. so we set up camp by the chairs, made another friend who missed her flight and had to wait until the morning, and settled in. i made myself a little bed behind the chairs propping my little pillow up on my bag and i had brought a bottom sheet for the bed in vieques and put it in my bag since i knew i would be sleeping in the airport and thought it woudl be nice to cover me up as well. I got out my shiny (verry noisy) emergency blanket and put that on top of me and then sheet over top of that. So i wasnt this shinning silver body. i tucked myself in and tried to get a little rest inside of my human chip bag! it was verry cold next to the window so i was very thankful to have that chip bag of a blanket, even if it did make soo much noise when i moved the slightest bit!! my alarm went off at 4:45 am because that was when the gates opened and we could get in. so my new friends and i parted ways and wished each other safe travels and then we were off. i slept the whole way on the plane to san juan! as soon as i got to vieques, i had time to take about a half hour nap and then i had to go work! 


Chris' Christmas was a little different than mine and everyone elses. they had a huge storm come through on christmas eve and the house leaked and got seira's computer all wet (which still isnt working) and was just not what you want on christmas eve!! the next day the rain went away and they all went to red beach with everyone we know here to celebrate christmas with our "vieques family" he said they had a fun time but was sad because he wished that he had been home for christmas and it just didnt feel like christmas down here. But he got over that when i got back with his christmas present from his family!! a new canon s90 point and shoot camera he has been droooling over for a while!! :) 


the weather was so gross the next day after i got back. it was really stormy and the weather said that there could be 10-18 ft waves on the northern exposed reefs!! We did not see any of those big waves though. so it rained for a couple days and i could not go to the beach, so we just hung out at the house and watched movies. 


Christmas was wonderful at home! 
i will post some pictures from christmas soon! 


FELICIDADES!!




io