Trip Down in the Caribbean (Part 3)

Picking up from where we last left our heroes... stranded on a tropical paradise, what will happen?!

Mmmm, crap. This ain't good. After such a long time, I have a poor memory of the things that happened in Puerto Rico. Plus my sister's blog has little to offer for these next few days >.<; Ack, well I'll at least attempt to speak in length about Wednesday, as that was one of the two memorable days of the trip for me.

Tuesday: Really, I think my sister spoke well in her blog for this day (and Thursday, but that's coming up): nothing did happen on Tuesday. For the most part, we were hearing a lot of that Chris storm that could supposedly keep us stuck in the house for a while, but my parents weren't too worried. Instead we just went to the store, got some food and water and such, and just stayed in the house for the rest of the day. Bo-oring.

Oh, almost forgot. Yes, since Wednesday was the planned bowling day, I had to ask and convince my parents to let me go (even though there was a tropical storm *ooooh*). Actually, that wasn't too hard. I told them I had a friend who invited me to go bowling, told them the place where it was at, and they said they'd drive me over as they visited a family friend around the same area (aren't I vague?). Yup, it was that simple. I had something to look forward to and a whole day of sitting around and reading to do so.

Wednesday(!): So this was the big-ish day. Man, and how.

As excited as I was, I had to wait a bit since the bowling thing was not 'til 4:30. So I just woke up at my usual time--10 or 11 ^^--and hung around the house doing nothing, as per usual. There wasn't much to do there other than read and listen to music. Yeah, that was it. Pretty boring. Luckily for me, while time did slow down as it tends to, it did not stop altogether. We ended up leaving the house around 1 since A: it was far (by Puerto Rico standards) and B: my friend wanted me to go a little early.

About an hour or so later my parents, my sister and I arrived in front of me friend's house. Formalities were exchanged and a few minutes later I was inside already laughing for one reason or another. That's right, though I had never met this person in my life, there was absolutely no awkwardness at all. I have to say that she's the quickest friend I've ever made.

Needless to say, things went great. We hung out for a few hours at her house (bad memory means I can't remember specifically what we did 'sides talk and laugh) and eventually headed over to the bowling alley. Although we were supposed to meet up with everyone there at 4:30, that just didn't happen. See, there's this little thing about Puerto Rican culture--a lot of hispanic cultures actually--is that you never show up on time anywhere. Well, as long as it's something informal that is. But yeah, you always show up casually late. ... no, later than that. Around an hour later.

Luckily for us there was an arcade in the bowling alley, a nice one at that. It had just about every game I'd want to play; which really just means it had DDR and air hockey. No, but as cool as it was to be in a good arcade for once, I preferred to just hang with all the people that slowly arrived. Man, so much hilarity took place there. And for once I felt quite at home, even though there was that language barrier and even though I had never met these people before. I dunno, must be something about starting anew. Who knows?

The night really did end too fast. We began bowling around 5:30 and played two games. However, these games took a while since we had about fifteen people spread over two lanes. But it was still fun, even if I do suck at bowling and got my ass kicked ^^; Plus, we got to go to Wendys afterwards! If that's not incentive for a fun night, I don't know what is.

Unfortunately, I had to say goodbye to everybody--especially my friend--and had to go back to the house in the middle of nowhere with no cell phone reception. Quite a bummer. But, what I didn't know was that I was in for a surprise. Mmmm, now that I think about it, that's a lie. I had an idea, but just had no clue if it would come true or not. Before I left, my friend had told me that she wanted to invite me to a friend's birthday party or at least something else before I left a few days later. So I had that to look forward to ^_^ And look forward I did because the next day was more or less a repeat of Tuesday.

Thursday: (See Tuesday, but change around the vague specifics and add a lot more rain.)

More to come with the family fight, another outing with friends, family reunion, and the final dramatic conclusion to our tale!