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126--Puerto Rico: For the Birds @ CherieSpotting     Apr 01 2003 - 11:30 PST Cherie writes: Attack of the birds. Who knew that a friendly pigeon feeding could turn into an attack! Birds were pecking and scratching and scraping the bare skin off my Dad's sunburned back. My Dad? That's right! My dad (Stan) and step-mom Joanne flew in to Puerto Rico to visit us! We've taken them to the local market (where they bought exactly one mango), the rainforest (where they sampled the nectar of the coconut straight from the source) and to the birthplace of the Pina Colada where we sucked down the slushy beverage like we'd never tasted it before. The Pina Colada is 40 years old this year and we went to the restaurant that concocted the first frothy drink! Later my dad made friends with a local police officer who let us sit on his motorcycle and even shoot his gun! (Okay, he didn't actually let us handle his gun...but he did let us play on his bike!) Click on each picture to see it full size. read comments (0) | write comment| views: 6459    | rated: 0.0    printer-friendly version   Cherie and Stan with their fowl friends. Cherie feeds the pigeons in the park. *Photo by Stan. The birds just flock to Joanne. If we bring these back home, do we have to declare them at customs? Dad tries to fit the bird's head in his mouth. Newspapers report that Ozzy Ozborne gets jealous. Free food always inspires a party. *Photo by Stan. Dad gets clawed on his sunburned shoulders. Dad makes friends with the San Juan police. Doesn't Cherie look like a natural crime fighter? *Photo by Stan. Greg can't pass for an officer of the law in his thongs. Stan and Joanne by the sea. Greg and Cherie celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pina Colada at its birthplace in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Celebrating Joanne's %#th birthday with original pina coladas. On this day she can have her cake and eat it too! Greg, Joanne and Cherie shopping on the cobble-stone streets of Old San Juan. *Photo by Stan. The fort. *Photo by Stan. Joanne and Cherie with a splash of color from the charming buildings of San Juan. *Photo by Stan. Pigeon holed? *Photo by Joanne. After all these years, Dad finally learns how to peel an orange properly! The vegetable guy at the local market. You can tell he's having a great day by his vibrant expression. Dad examines the bananas and finds them a little too green. Hot peppers! Stan treats Joanne like a Queen fanning her in the tropical weather with a fallen leaf. Did you know vanilla beans come from orchids? Stan and Joanne in the rainforest. In the el Yunque rainforest the frogs sing like birds. A moorish tower exactly where you'd epect to find it, in the jungle tropics! Can you be a nature lover and a bug hater at the same time? Wild berries for lunch? Climbing their way to the top. We went to the National Park to get away from it all. Looks like everyone else had the same idea! The stream is so pure you can drink from it! (If you want to crap for a week straight.) True love is sharing a coconut. Cherie tells her dad that she doesn't want to eat the coconut jelly because it looks like snot. Everything grows to obsene sizes in the rainforest--especially snails, snakes and spiders. Greg and Cherie.