A Day in the West

In my day as a tourist,I chose to go to Las Marías. This weekend in that town they were celebrating,"The Orange Festival". The majority of the towns in Puerto Rico have festivals. I planned my day with my parents and friend Orlando. We woke up early and begging our day eating at a bakery, called "La Cava del Norte". This bakery is in Vega Baja. Every body take a delicious breakfast, and look the place because have a extensive wine collection. One of the most curious things i saw there was a door with the following quote: "Life is to short to drink bad wine". I love that quote, because is a fact that life is to short and the wine is one of my favorites drinks. I think, was a poetic form to say something about wine. When we finished eating,we got back on the long road to Las Marías. But like in all trips we forgot to take some important things, and ended up at Walgreens. While there my mother was fighting over some prices with her coupon collection, and won. Finally, after some delays we were able to reach our destination.

While going up the hill in Las Marias, we were welcomed by a sea of cars and dozens of people selling oranges. There was a lot of sellers offering their hand crafted products. Personally i cannot resist, and bought a lot of little delights for my mother and i. During my exploration of the festival which took place at the plaza, i noticed the happiness, the colors and the loudness the "Boricuas" are. We continued walking around there and saw a beautiful map of Puerto Rico, that was like a puzzle and was made with different types of woods. I was very impressed by the level of craftsmanship that he must have and also shocked by its price tag. The map had a estimated value of $800.00.

Before we decide to leave, we had to have one of the festival special drinks which is called the Orange Colada. During our wait for these delicious drinks, we caught the eye of an unexpected visitor. The visitor was Ricky Rosello, the son of one of our ex governors Pedro Rosello. The people were very excited to see him, and they would not leave him alone. When we finally decided to leave, we got stuck behind a sea of people taking pictures with him. This demostrate us that Puerto Rico is an island very passionate about politics and its politicians . I think it is like a sport for many people that live here, it doesn't even have to be election year.

To complete our day, we took a slight detour to Cabo Rojo. There we went to Papas Pizza, a famous pizza place in that town. The cooks have won many awards in the United States, participating in culinary contest creating pizzas. The place was full of people, and we needed to wait a while to be attended. When we finally got our food served we forgot the all time we spent waiting, it was delicious. It was a great day, i enjoyed looking every single detail and admiring the way Puerto Ricans manifest love for Culture.