San Juan!

First of all, if you really want to get our cast going, if you want us to REALLY get opinionated and hot under the collar and fight TO THE DEATH about what we think, here are the subjects: cookies (esp. chocolate chip cookies), House (the show), particularly episode 2 of the second season which was terrible and focused WAY too much on Cutty, and Weeds. House and Weeds are broadcast on our crew only channels. This is some of our only input. One of the cast members manages to sleep something like 18 hours a day.

We went to have traditional Puerto Rican food in San Juan. We had Mofongo, which comes in what looks like a banister top—wooden and kind of like a weird bowl/huge mug with no handle. Taller than it is wide. We were told we would wait for 15 minutes, but waited for an hour, which made me think about Mexico and make sweeping generalizations about Latin culture. Mofongo is mashed plantains which line the hollowed out inside of the banister top, filled with meat of your choice. It was delicious and rich and a teeny bit like stomach led.

Then I went to Senor Frogs.

Senor Frogs is like the cruise ship for 21 year olds. Maybe 19 year-olds. Definitely people who have just discovered what booze does and are VERY excited about it and find it VERY interesting and would REALLY like to talk about it or inhale more of it. You get drinks by the yard—or that say YARD down the side, but are really like just a little over 2 feet, probably for some good corporate reason. Then they fill these YARD glasses with all sorts of cocktails. One of the youth counselors who was there already and about half way through one drink said “mmm, vodka and oranges, that’s it.” It tasted like jet fuel. I then made the DEEPLY UNWISE decision to order a BANANA RANA—which no one should ever, ever, ever drink. Only because it gave me severe stomach problems to the point that I couldn’t sleep without waking up because there was a knife in my stomach. This is called the inflammation of the stomach lining. Gastritis. BANANA RANA.