Comfy comfy life….part 1: Shopping

Wow. We move from our top modern air conditioned apartment to our air conditioned rental car to the ultra well sorted shopping malls or the life guarded beach with beach chairs and umbrellas.

Our home on the 17th floor.

The shopping piece is quite amazing. As you’ve seen on the pictures our first mission was to find a new camera. Of course we started here :

To keep E happy we told her she could choose a toy. In awe of the amount of toys, she spent at least half an hour choosing the perfect one – a doll in a purple rabbit dress.

Decisions, decisions…

We found a camera, and loads of other stuff too. It is so cheap! When we got to the baby section to find baby food we found car seats for 30 US$. Hmm… We bought it, trying not to think of the effect on our luggage.

New car seat and toy (this is what she looks like when we ask her to smile at the camera…)

Then we drove to the rental company and returned the rented car seat – and got 60 US$ refunded. The economist strikes again! Making money shopping!

Found other interesting things as well, so many things you never thought you needed, like

Oh, that’s what I’ve been missing…

Grocery shopping is also lots of fun. They have so many readymade and unhealthy stuff, like 200 different breakfast cereal (none without sugar), but trying to find things to make things yourself, like baking powder for pancakes, we had to look well and hard before we found it.

American ready-made adapted to Puerto Rican cuisine

And coffee! Best we’ve had so far, in tough competition with the French.

Happiest face in a few months…

But living the comfy life means of course eating out as well. Here, the theme is FRIED. Everything is fried.

We tried a few of the items here eating like true locals: Fried salt fish, fried plantains, fried banana filled with minced meat and fried mashed potatoes filled with chicken.

No – it wasn’t particularly nice.

A part from the McDonalds, Wendy’s, KFC, Pizza hut, Taco maker, (that we’ve managed to avoid a part from the airport), most restaurants serve steaks, seafood and salads (in addition to the fried things, of course). The nicest meal we’ve had so far was this:

Pineapple filled with coconut rice and shrimp…mmmmmm

Next update will be beach: It is so awesome I need to take pictures with the new camera to make it justice!