Saturday, January 9, 2016
San Juan is a very modern cosmopolitan city with glitzy resorts and casinos. They have preserved its Old City quite well, and refuse to put stop lights in that section because it would spoil the image.
Since the ship docked in San Juan early, and our flight did not leave until the afternoon, we decided to book an "Old and New San Juan City Tour With Airport Dropoff".
We started with a visit to the state capital building, all built in marble:
After that the tour just seemed to take us from one section of the fortress wall to another (with 50 meter bus rides in between). But they were probably different sections of Fort San Cristobal and Fort San Felipe Del Morro.
This is the Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzi Cemetery, you have to be rich and famous to be buried here. For example, the actor who played Gomez in the Adams Family is buried here.
There was a small city center square where we hung out for an hour.
When they dropped us off at the airport, the gate to Westjet wasn't even open yet, so we hung out with Dee and her daughter. Dee is actually a published author and Frankie has ordered one of her books to read from the library.
On the plane back, they actually had seatback entertainment, but not on demand. Which meant that you had to watch whatever movie they showed, at the time they showed it. We sat in front of a girl who turned out to be the stunt double on shows like Rookie Blue, Murdoch Mysteries, and Saving Hope.
One last Captain Kate Confucius saying of the day:
"Girl who sets goals high, reach summit." This was quite clever, since the name of our ship was Celebrity Summit.
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