PUERTO RICO - April 2007

Location: San Juan, Fajardo, Culebra, & Vieques – Puerto RicoTravel

Buddies: Judson Girls – Grande Foot (stephie), Grande Mole (jaja), Grande Tooth (cay), Teta Grande (bel), Grande _____ (yoks), Pescado Grande (me)
Jerry “Birthday Boy” Orellana, Jeff Ho, Lynn & bf, Gerard

Overview: The Judson Girls went to Puerto Rico for Jerry’s 30th Birthday. This was the first time all 6 of us were together on a vacation adventure! Jerry wanted to have a destination birthday for his big 3-0…relaxing & partying in PR is definitely a great way to enter your 30’s! We stayed in Old San Juan at the Hotel Milano for the long weekend getaway. We enjoyed the days on the beach and took ferries from Fajardo to Culebra & Vieques…what wonderful little islands off the main land! We also had a chance to visit El Yunque, the National Rainforest....we hiked & enjoyed the waterfalls…malamig! In the evening…we salsa’ed the night away at our old faithful, the Nuyorican & other fine establishments. It was a great trip with the chicas de Judson…many more great memories were shared!

Guest entry from Stephie Chang:

JUDSON TAKES PR

...so after 10 years of friendship, the judson girls FINALLY decided to take a vacation together... of course, we've travelled together before, but someone was always missing... until NOW!... and what a trip it was...

...let me give you a little background on JUDSON... it all started many moons ago when the G-CAPS (aka "4 filipinas and 1 japanese girl living at campbell hall who bestowed upon themselves a lame name") invited little old stephie to be their 6th roomate to live in the JUDSON suites on busch campus... 6 GIRLS - ONE BATHROOM... you do the math... from that day forward we were INSEPARABLE ... we took classes, partied, ate, slept, shopped and studied together... three of us pledged the same sorority... we shared clothes and boys... two of us have even kissed (if you can call it that)... "she was all teeth!"... lol... and i refuse to divulge anything further...

...needless to say, we've shared countless memories... and our return to PR (for some of us, their 4th time!) was just another opportunity to create more... below are some lame/funny moments... we're putting the really good stuff on our travelling pants...

Part I: JUDSON TAKES PR - "good grief"

cay and stax outshining the locals @ nuyorican

lohan waiting for the girls at the completely opposite and wrong end of the airport

cay, ja, yoks, bel and lohan passed out on flamenco beach while stax spent two hours on the phone booking the bioluminscent kayak tour

not going on the bioluminescent kayak tour

stax: "i can't wait to go salsa dancing!"
lohan: "stace, PLEASE STOP calling it 'SALSA DANCING'... it's just 'SALSA'"
stax: "i can't wait to hear salsa music!"
lohan: =0

yoks and lohan really getting into the live HS Band on the ferry

that slutbucket local who practically sat on lohan while we were on the ferry and looked at me like I WAS doing something wrong

ANDRES!! "i'm gay too!"

WALGREEN'S COFFEE

yoks assisting cay w/ parking the rental car by standing outside and directing cay right into another car... that was not just a dent... the fender was CRACKED... good job girls! you win the judson award for DOH!

Judson's rendition of DO-RE-MI

stax being a crankster

stax sleeping w/ her mouth open

lohan SERVING stax because of her unecessarily rough tone

lohan crying after =(

stax and lohan talking it out at the El San Juan

that new yorker w/ GINORMOUS TATAS... why was she even TRYING to get on that floatation device when she had two of her own!?

tooling around in the ESJ pool and that fricken waterfall.... NOT THE LEAST BIT SEXY!

when they said there was nothing on Red Beach in Vieques, they weren't kidding

lohan killing an anthill full of ants... oopsy poopsy... they never knew what hit them

those nasty sour oranges that we bought from the vendor on vieques

ja and lohan going to pick stax up a cup of coffee at that coffee stand... "tres cafes pequenos por favor"... turning around and seeing the miniature foam cups... i felt like a giant

ordering ham, egg and cheese "tortillas" thinking they were something special

ham, egg and cheese tortilla = omelette

bel running into that guy from her town who was wearing THAT SHIRT

stax asking those two girls @ ESJ: "do these swimming pool bands get us into the clubs?" ... WHO DOES THAT?!

stax: "excuse me... where is your bano?"

the mechanical bull

...time for dinner... to be continued...

Part II: JUDSON TAKES PR - "wifebeaters and pink skirts"