Puerto Rico-Part 3 Ponce July 27th-28th

July 27th

The view at night from the pool in our hotel, right on the beach you can see another hotel in the distance.

The back of our hotel The Caribe Hilton

 Did you know that the piña colada was invented right here in Puerto Rico, by Ramon Marrero a bartender at the Caribe Hilton!

The view from our hotel room. We love this Hotel. July 28th

Leaving for Ponce Sunday morning. The lobby of the Caribe Hilton

Brother Gonzalez. He is the grandfather of my nieces and nephew. My brother was married to his daughter.

My brother

Sister missionaries serving in Ponce 1st Ward

My dear friends, Sister Nitza Batista, Sister Lopategui and Anita Puig. Anita went to middle and HS with me and she was not a member but she joined the church and married Jose Cheo Puig who grew up with me in the church.

Hermana Lourdes Rivera. A good friend of my moms. I grew up with her daughter Eileen.

My good friend Maria Cuca Carrasco

With my brother and my sister in law Saby

Our parents grave

My mom and dad's grave

My mom's parent's grave. My grandparents.

My mom's aunt Luz Sotomayor Thillet (my grandpa's sister) and my uncle Pedro Sotomayor (my mom's half brother)

Cementerio La Piedad where my parents and grandparents, and aunt and uncle are buried in Ponce is a nice cemetery.

With my uncle Tito (Vicente) Sotomayor and my cousin Vicente Sotomayor in front of where my great-grandparents Pedro Sotomayor and Gernara Thillet lived in Ponce. 

 La Plaza de Ponce

Eating ice cream from King's Cream Helados also known as Los Chinos because it is owned by Chinese.

With my dear friends from my childhood, Jacqueline Santiago and Taili Colon. I have known Taili since Kindergarten and we went to all the same schools, she lived in the same neighborhood as my maternal grandparents.

We drove past my Middle School. I took this picture as we drove by so it is not a very good picture. Escuela Hemeterio Colon.

My elementary school. Escuela Elemental Juan Cuevas Aboy.