Honeymoon: Day 2

Our first full day in Puerto Rico actually started at 4:45 a.m. We went bass fishing. Not just any kind of bass though mind you, peacock bass fishing! According to Jason and YouTube they are one of the most aggressive types of bass and are beautiful to look at. So for this reason I found myself sitting in the hotel lobby barely obvious at 5:00 a.m.

Our tour guide and captain, Captain Paco met us in the hotel lobby, which was great because after seeing how people here drive I do not want to get behind the wheel. I was extremely surprised to see he had the bass boat with him and that we would be hauling it to the dock with us. On top of having crazy drivers, the streets are ridiculously narrow, they should honestly be one way streets, but are being used as two lanes. I braced myself.

W had our first "wow, we really should have learned Spanish" moment when we stopped for coffee at McDonalds in somewhere, PR. The poor cashier looked at us like we were crazy and then we did the same when he started speaking. He finally went and got his manager who was able to translate that we wanted to coffees and that they would be $2.18. Relearn Spanish is now on my things to do list. I'm still unsure why we even stopped for offer because the next road that we traversed was so winding a bumpy half my coffee ended up on me or on the back seat of Capt. Paco's car.

It was worth it though. The lake was beautiful, the sun was just rising over the Mountains and there were dozens of white herons and pelicans in the trees and diving into the lake. Our guide was amazing, we were catching fish within 10 minutes of getting to our first fishing spot. There were three main types of fish that were biting: Red Devils, Peacock Bass, and Jaguar Bass. They were all beautiful looking fish with bright colors, the fought like crazy so it was a fun time trying to get them in the boat and I soon fund out that Jaguar bass actually have two fangs. A bit scary.

I total we caught around 20 fish, which was amazing. Capt. Paco packed up his boat and took us back to San Juan where we spent the rest of the day pool side with a pitcher of sangria trying to decide where we were going to eat dinner. We eventually decided that we were going to go to Pikayo in the Conrad hotel and then try out there casino. Once we walked there and the saw menu and found out there was no poker in the casino we decided to go elsewhere and had dinner at Vitara instead, a wood burning rotisserie place. Jason and I split the caesar salad with fried plantains, then he had the new York strip with mashed potatoes while I had a yellowfin tuna with grilled asparagus. Both were good, but a little underwhelming given the price tag. We wouldn't go there again if we came back.