Beautiful Wedding

YESTERDAY:

• took it easy in the morning
• head to a cafe for lunch
  • Kat and Vikas had a crazy looking smoothie
• get ready for wedding!
  • apparently we were 30 mins off on the time estimate
  • luckily I had provisioned an extra hour in case of traffic
  • made it to the ceremony with a few minutes to spare
  • clouds looked ominous and we felt a few drops of rain
  • luckily, the weather held and the ceremony went off with no issues!
• neat to walk down the streets of old San Juan cheering for the bride and groom
• lovely reception in the hotel
• dinner was delicious
• wedding dance was lovely, choreo’d by our instructor
• a salsa instructor that choreographed Bad Bunny’s music video gave a lesson!
  • super fun :D
• danced with the groom’s mom at some point in the evening
• also took a photo with four Andrews
• helped Mark and Pawan take some profile pictures
• overheard some tension between another salsa instructor and his date for the evening
• hotel closed the wedding dances around midnight

TODAY:

• drop off Irania at the airport around 4 am
• woke up around 10:30 am
• got everybody out the door by 11 am to head to Ceiba for a ferry ride
• turns out we were able to get tickets for the 3 pm ferry without issue
• head to Fajardo for lunch
• team split up
  • half went to Burger King
  • my group ended up at Extra China
  • massive quantity of food for $11.50
  • I actually couldn’t finish all the fried rice and french fries
• passed out on the ferry to Vieques from Cieba
• group took a little hike up a hill to take a photo by a sign
• took a taxi to Esperanza, a little seaside town on the opposite side of the island
• got an acai bowl
• did a bit of work
• some fun photos by a swing set as the sunset
• bio bay tour was super fun
  • Shubham and I did well as a kayaking pair
  • biolumniscent plankton were super neat
  • tour guide also showed us baby shrimp and fishes
  • Kat, Mark, and I ended up going barefoot and got very muddy feet on the way back though
• ferry back from Vieques to Cieba was super chilly
• team voted for an Asian noodle bar for dinner
• found a crazy Kaiju-themed Japanese ramen place
  • it’s basically a large dim lit basement that’s very cold
  • wallpaper is full of various kaiju scenes
  • food itself was so-so, but the warm broth was great
• got home by 1 am ish

LEARNINGS:

• there’s only 8 remaining bioluminscent bays in the world
• they require higher concentrations of salinity that only occur due to mangrove forests
• Vieques has four types of mangroves and the tour guide claims has the highest concentration of the bioluminecent plankton of the 8