Art Fart

We've been messing around with Photoshop again. Its really addicting but I have to say that I hate that The Mr. knows more than I do about it. In my defense, he has the time to learn this! I'm in school. And work has been killing me lately. I can get better at this during winter break! I know I can!

Wow, competitive much?

Prior to getting our DSLR - I had this vision of what I wanted to do with a wall in our dining room. Its a blank slate with so much potential. And its small. And its in an open floor plan so you can see it from the living room, kitchen, stairs, etc. We actually have a very generic picture from Ikea on that wall but it isn't really "us" and it was more of a filler piece than anything.

Back to my vision. I love the look of a wall covered in framed pictures of differing styles, shapes, colors and size. Are you with me? Can you picture this? And I thought it would be interesting if we had pictures of doors and windows. Its a little artsy fartsy and I'm not trying to be pretentious or anything but considering our space is somewhat small, it seemed interesting to have pictures of windows in our home. And Baltimore has some interesting architecture so it would be easy to find.

Easy, that is, until we bought the frickin' DSLR. Its like all of the interesting doors and windows have gone into hiding. Yarg! Anywho - we took some interesting pics in Puerto Rico and through the power of Photoshop, we aged them and made them look even more interesting. I think these might earn a spot on our wall (unless, of course, all of the cool doors and windows I've been dreaming about reappear).

Under Construction

Alright - today's post is dedicated to the resort, El Conquistador, we were lucky to stay in for Rob's wedding.

What can I say about this resort? It was very pretty although it seemed that half of it was under construction the entire time we were there. The bellhop took us to our "ocean front" view of 5 porta pots and construction. Whoo!



We were woken up in the mornings not by the magical sound of the ocean, but of the construction taking place. And about 2 days after checking in, a small family checked into the room next door so we had the pleasure of a crying baby all night. Very relaxing.

And, I'm trying to squeeze in as much as possible in this post about the resort but its taking way too long to upload pictures so I'm going to highlight some things:

- There was a $15 daily charge for using their WIFI connection!
- They charged $20 for the bellhop
- Dinner at the Italian eatery cost $70 for a plate of spaghetti and chicken parm (with no pasta!) and a beer.
- Dinner at the Hibachi cost $90 for a vegetarian plate and a chicken plate with 2 beers
- Don't get me started on breakfast... and the beefcake waiters
- Starbucks, we realized late in the trip, had the most reasonably priced items
- There were wet paint signs everywhere!

Okay, that's it. All in all it was nice but I'm still complaining in my survey. that'll show 'em. I'm giving them a negative rating! Burn!

Be-yoo-tiful wedding. So tired and

Be-yoo-tiful wedding. So tired and we're about to kill 7 hours in san juan. We'll be back in cold baltimore tonight.

We're going to a rainforest!

We're going to a rainforest! And i threw my back out last night. Fun fun!

Holy crap- its crazy expensive

Holy crap- its crazy expensive here! Dinner was $70 for spaghetti, chicken parm and 2 beers!

America's Spanish Cousin

We're here... in lovely, hot and humid Puerto Rico! It only took a 4 hour flight at the ass crack of dawn, followed by another (what felt like) an hour trying to get our car rental info straightened out, getting lost... and then walking around the hotel and taking some weird light rail type thing... oy. We're here.

First, I was so dedicated to posting everyday for a month that I lugged a laptap (thanks, Ryan!) down here so that I could take advantage of what was posted as "free" wireless internet. However, upon signing in... it looks like there is a $15 daily service charge for internet. Say what? Sadly, I might resort to sending a text message post (I'll look up how to e-mail a blog post, Nanette!) because this is ridiculous!

I'm not going to lie... I was a little sketched out by the scenery but this place reminds me of Punta Cana. The resorts are ridiculously over the top while the rest of the place... not so much. This isn't a dig at the country, but lets just say we witnessed a lot of citizens simply throwing large amounts of trash out of the vehicles as they were driving down the highway.

This hotel (El Conquistador) is beautiful. We were sort of in awe as we drove up the long driveway. I even made friends with a restaurant owner. She was wearing MY favorite Blondie t-shirt and I commented on it. It turns out that she and her hubby moved for NYC to PR and opened a restaurant. Exciting.

Anywho, let me just cut to the chase. We booked an "oceanfront room". Luis, our bellman, opened the door to our room and showed us the cutest little decor:



Cute, right? I like the yellow and white. And the modular furniture. And cute padded headboard. But see, this is an oceanfront room. Wanna see our ocean front view?




Jealous? These pools better be amazing! Alright, I'm off to eat and do something that I don't normally do on vacation. Socialize with others!