Day 55



OCTOBER 24, 2019

  SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

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Like Quebec City, San Juan has a modern upper city and an ancient lower town. However, San Juan's lower town gets few visitors.

So, how do Puerto Ricans feel about Puerto Rico and the U.S.? Listen.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e2igZexpMs

Today is "turn over day" - about 700 passengers who joined the ship in New York are
departing and will be replaced by new travelers. The staff are busy, but efficient.

To make this morning even more hectic for the rest of us, the Viking Sun is sitting alongside Disney Fantasy (capacity 3,000 passengers) and Royal Caribbean Allure of the Seas (capacity 5,400 - c'mon now,  this is getting downright silly!). Shopping is right across the street from these ships so you can imagine the elbow to elbow pandemonium that took place inside and outside the stores. 

We went into CVS Pharmacy and discovered that their usual checkout counters were closed, customers had to use the self serve counters which only accept credit cards. In any foreign country, as a precautionary measure, we prefer to use cash rather than credits cards in order to avoid the possibility of hackers accessing our financial information. Wallgreens Pharmacy, a few doors down, accepts cash. Gracias.

The Disney Fantasy left this afternoon. It's odd how truly huge the ship looks when it moves past a substantial building.



Tonight the movie is "The Art of Racing in the Rain". Having read the book, Karen will take along a package of kleenex, just in case.......

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