Having 18 foot ceiling in our house is great…until the light bulbs all burn out! Then we have to buy a $300 ladder in order to change a $0.50 light bulb.
True story.
Haha.
When I moved to Puerto Rico, I was expecting the food to be similar to Costa Rica, but unfortunately I was wrong. Typical Puerto Rican fare is fried fried fried and then probably fried one more time for good measure. There are also a lot of really unhealthy fast food joints like your typical McDonalds, Burger King, Popeyes, etc. It really is hard to find a good meal around here, but that is something Stefan and I have accepted and perhaps it’s a blessing in disguise because it gives us an excuse to cook at home more. But, oh what I wouldn’t give for a good sushi joint…
Any how, we were in San Juan last week and went to check out Plazas Las Americas (the biggest mall in the Caribbean). We got a bite to eat at the food court and came across “La Vaca Frita” and it made us laugh. For some reason that just doesn’t sound appetizing to me, but then again I’m a weirdo, I guess because plenty of people were eating there.
This sign was posted at The Hot Potato, and it also made me laugh. I had to take a picture:
When I first moved down here, I rented an office to run my business out of while we were fixing up little things at the house, like: WALLS, ELECTRICITY, KITCHEN, BATHROOMS, WATER. The office I was renting already had cable Internet, so it was my first experience with service down here. Wow, it was really bad. It was slow (even though it was sold as ‘high speed’), went down all the time and had horrible customer service.
Well, for the first time since last year when we got the DSL lines installed, our Internet slowed down and went out completely. For the past two days we have been getting an “Authorization Error” from Puerto Rico Telephones DMAX DSL Internet service and have been unable to get online. It has been tough to get work done for our businesses, but we have been doing fun stuff together and around the house, so maybe it was a blessing in disguise. We are quite addicted to work.
All and all though, I need to recommend DMAX DSL over Cable Internet to anyone thinking of getting service down here. The customer service at PRT is bad, and even when you hit the right number (2) when prompted for English you get a spanish speaking operator that puts you back on hold for 20 minutes….but my experience in the past year is that you won’t need to deal with their customer service.
Chichieto was having a flashback from the night we almost ran him over, so I snapped a couple of pictures:
Don’t worry, he snapped out of it…
Littering is not that big of a deal to many Puerto Ricans, which might sound bad, but compared to California, where littering is a social sin that carries a minimum $1000 fine, there is definately a difference.
Flick a cigarette butt out of your car in CA, automatic $1000 fine. If someone sees you littering in CA, you might as well be stabbing a puppy with the looks of disgust and anger that you will get. Puerto Rico? Not so much.
So, I thought it was cute that someone handpainted a bunch of pretty “No Tire Basura” signs and put them up all around Rincon. Each sign is handpainted with a pretty sunset background and each one says something slightly different, but all along the lines of “No Littering”. I was driving past the cemetery today and saw one of these signs posted at the entrance:
On closer inspection, it is definately the funniest “No Littering” sign I’ve seen. It says: “No Tire Basura. Noooooooooooooo!”
I guess they really wanted to drive the point home that they do not want you to litter in the cemetery. 
