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Puerto Rico Baby Travel Guide: Eating
Deep Fried Goodness at Raices, Old San Juan
As our dinner party agreed one night, there’s not much that doesn’t benefit from being deep fried. Case in point: the plantain. Delicious on its own, but mashed and deep fried into a crispy tostone turns this banana cousin into culinary goodness that appreciated by even the pickiest toddler.
Puerto Rican fare is hearty, stick-to-your-ribs kinda food – savoury meats served with rice & beans, the aformentioned tostones, and our favourite: mofongo. Mofongo is mashed green plaintains filled with veggies and either seasoned beef, chicken, or shrimp. Yes, it is as good as it sounds.
Puerto Rico, Who Knew?
I Left My Heart In Old San Juan...
I was pretty excited – The San Juan Marriott in Puerto Rico invited my daughter and me down for a visit. While I always thought myself to be a pretty knowledgeable person, I truthfully knew very little about the destination for our mother-daughter working vacation, inclusive of 7 meagre tidbits:
-Ricky Martin is from Puerto Rico.
-Jennifer Lopez’s parents are from Puerto Rico.
-The characters in West Side Story are Puerto Rican.
-Nuyorican Soul (Nuyorican is a slang term for Puerto Ricans living in New York) was a collective with some pretty classic House Music tracks (I had a brief club phase in the mid-’90s, don’t judge!)
-Bacardi Rum is Puerto Rican
-Puerto Rico is not an official US state, but Puerto Ricans get a US passport (Ricky Martin told me this. Seriously!)
Guest Post! Orlando’s Coco Key Water Park
This guest post is courtesy of Amanda Keefer – a Florida resident and host of www.themammamiablog.com – she visited Orlando’s newest water park, and shares her thoughts. If you’re headed to the Orlando area and are looking for some non-Disney options, this place looks pretty fun! Thanks Amanda!
Crazy-fun Water Park Madness
We love pools, we love water and we loooove water parks! This weekend we had the opportunity to visit Orlando’s newest water park attraction, CoCo Key Water Park Resort. I was possibly more excited than my four-year-old to check it out.
