Many have asked us, "Why Puerto Rico?" Well, we both love to travel and experience new cultures and places so we thought we would make our honeymoon a chance to do that. As we looked into ticket prices to various "cultural" places we found some rock-bottom tickets to PR from Chicago. Botta-bing-botta-boom and we were off to America's "51st state". PR makes for a great travel destination for someone wanting a little bit of the exotic with a lot of the familiar. You'll find a Burger King on every corner. You can still treat yourself to Coldstone ice cream and Starbucks coffee. English even gets you around pretty well, especially as it pertains to the tourist industry (rental agencies, hotels, outings, etc.).

Things aren't much cheaper in PR than the US...which makes sense since it is the US. There was this taco place/bar in San Juan that we literally ate at four times! It was so cheap and so tasty!!! That place will be remembered. Brooke was a bit bummed because it was the low tourist season in PR...which meant that a lot of places were relatively dead. She particularly likes to be where the action is.

And then comes the shock of being back home! Jobs with responsibilities! deadlines! and expectations! It's been pretty full. But, unquestionably the best part has been being Brooke's husband ;-) Married life is amazing!