More deep fried food!

So today, Fed and I ventured out to the East coast. We had planned on being there already, and heading to the islands of Vieques and Culebra, but hurrican Irene has set our plans back a bit. So we went exploring there to see the condition of the East coast, and if ferrys are still running trips out to the island.

Driving, as usual, is crazy. Especially now that power loss has turned off many street lights. In the states, we know that when a street light is down, you behave as if it's a stop sign. In Puerto Rico, when a street light is down, you behave as if a shark with a sawed off shotgun is hot on your tail. Basically it's a mad free-for-all of who can weave through the traffic first.

Our first stop was Luquillo beach, which is known to have kioskos - little food shacks right on the beach. And it's true. Though we didn't get food at first. We stopped at the beach right behind this long line of kioskos. Even though it was a little overcast, it had been almost a week since we had been in the ocean, so swimming was long overdue. The water was actually pretty nice, and the sun came out just as we got out and laid on the sand for a bit.

From there we continued our expedition toward Fajardo, where ferrys usually depart to Vieques and Culebra. We never really found any ferries, but we did find some closed roads and a Navy base. So hopefully when we actually need to get a ferry, we'll have better luck finding one. lol

After our fruitless search for ferrys, we went back to Luquillo for lunch. We basically tried something from almost every kiosko. And did I mention that EVERYTHING is fried? =) We started off with like a lunch version of banana split: a fried plantain, split and filled with ground beef and cheese. Also we tried a poinono, which is another way to fill fried plantains with ground beef and cheese. We also tried something like a crab corndog (but with way more greasy fried outside). I also tried a crab sandwich thing, but of course the outside bread thing was fried. A pina colado helped wash down the grease. =)

Left: Poinono, ground beef stuffed inside sweet plantain, then fried. Right: ground beef in sweet plantain, then fried. lol

Fed and I outside the Luquillo Kioskos, though this picture doesn't really do it justice. At all.

After our excursion, we headed back to the Pedersen's house, where we had great pasta leftovers, and another pina colada which Gunner made for us. I know, tough life. =)

P.s. Frogs, aka coqui ("coe-kee") are really popular here in Puerto Rico. They "chirp" really loudly at night, and I finally found one last night!

A little coqui I found in the Pedersen's front yard. Nbd. =)