Cabo Rojo

The first item on Jen's Mississippi list (all the things that she wants to do in Puerto Rico before she gets married and moves to Mississippi) was to visit Cabo Rojo.  This is the furthest you can get from Luquillo. On an island that is 100 miles wide by 30 miles deep, you would think the furthest point would be reachable in less than 3 hours.  NEWS FLASH!  It's impossible in PR to do this. 

Part of the reason we took this getaway was because we needed to drop off two of our students and their mother (who spend every other week with us) in the town of Hormigueros.  The little girls were so excited to see their father. It was so precious to see them run up and hug him, grinning ear to ear.  It made me wish (once again) that all of our students could have the same relationship with their fathers.

We got to the hotel in Cabo Rojo after dark.  It was so beautiful, there were pools and hammocks and a beach and docks.  Some people may wonder why we would take a vacation to another beach in Puerto Rico when we live so close to one here.  Our idea of a vacation is an air-conditioned room and a TV!  We also did other things--like see a light house and hang off precariously high and jagged cliffs (see photos below).

The view at the cliffs was spectacular!  It was worth the four-hour drive each way just to see and climb on the rocks.  I was a bit frightened by the fact that one wrong step could result in me plummeting to my death, but when I saw Chris jumping and playing on the rocks, and I was convinced I had to try.  So slowly and carefully--and with some helping hands--I crept out on the rocks.  The view was indescribable and the pictures do not do it justice--and I could not help but stare at the beauty in awe of our Creator.