Babymoon!

We're on our way To Puerto Rico for our baby moon!

It's been a brutal winter already, and we're so happy to be getting away from the mountains of snow. I just want to lay by the pool for 3 days straight, my body needs to thaw out!

It was a little tough finding a place to get away. We only wanted to go for a long weekend ( saving those vacation days for post-eggy) so a direct flight from Boston was critical. PR is perfect, 4 hours on a direct Jet Blue flight (yay for tv!) and we're there! We're staying at a new St Regis down there, which looks really nice.

More to come on the trip!

Beach palapas at St Regis - this will do for now... but pls come back in 5 mins to spritz me.

UPDATE:  so, this place is EXPENSIVE (maybe not for Ed's tastes, but for ours!).  Rack rates are $1000+ / night!  Fortunately, we used Starwood Points (LOVE this affinity program - by far the best) and are staying here for the bargain price of 20,000 pts per night.  When we checked in, we were given champagne, and the butler is now coming over to our room to mix me a mojito and bring Lisa a chamomile tea!  Why are we only staying here a few nights?  Oh yeah, we went dry with our points!

We got here around 230PM today, and grabbed a quick lunch by the pool, and soaked up a few rays.

Lisa for poolside lunch - Mahi Mahi with spicy mayo!

Beach in the background - Most of the guests stayed by the crazy nice pool, but the beach is so close too!

We're about to head out to dinner to Pasta & Pueblo - which is supposedly one of the best restaurants in PR - run out of a shack by a few former surfers.  Ed, I'm sure you'd love this place!

Did I mention they have bocce ball here?!  But they call is boules... there will definitely be a bocce/boule throwdown over the weekend...

UPDATE #2

We’re halfway through Babymoon, 2011, and we’re having a wonderful time down here! This morning, after a light breakfast on our balcony, we went kayaking for about an hour,  where we saw lots of turtles/coconuts, iguanas (here Lizard, Lizard!) and golf holes. Richard was practically salivating watching the golfers out there, but the whole purpose of a babymoon is to spend time together, so he didn’t play (thanks Sweetie, I appreciate it!).

A large iguana

Then we got on a tandem bike, which I’ve learned is one of those things that looks more fun than it really is! Maybe it’s just cause I was in the  bike and couldn’t see anything, plus I missed the feeling of freedom and adventure you get when the wind is whipping through your hair. The property isn’t that big, so we only biked for about 30 minutes. There are a couple famous people with homes here, which we shamelessly took pictures of  (see below)

Lisa in front of Oscar de la Hoya's $14.5MM vacation home

 The afternoon was spent at the pool, where our lounging was interrupted a few times by sudden but brief rain showers. Its amazing how fast they swoop in and out, most only lasted for 5 minutes. In between, we managed to fit in a quick came of boule, but out of respect to Richard I can't tell you the outcome (only that it was practically a shut-out and he was not happy at the end of it!)

We're off to Fajardo for dinner tonight at La Estacion, which is a super cool restaurant we stumbled upon last time we were in PR.