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Flamenco dancing at Rosa de Triana our last night in San Juan. Emily got a chance to be part of the show. It was our most fun of the week!

¡Viva España!

Here we are in the Luís Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan.   This week has been really fast and really slow all at the same time.   We are trying to figure out the magic of our trip that it feels almost like our time in the rain forest was a different vacation entirely.   If we can figure that out, maybe we can make sure to recreate it every year. Our last full day in San Juan (yesterday) was probably our best day of the entire trip, which was a nice way to end it.   We started early, seeing El Fuerte de San Cristóbal.   It is the second fort of San Juan, though it is the largest Spanish fort in the Americas.   It was built to protect San Juan from land attacks while El Morro protected her from the sea.   Just like with El Morro, the US Navy added some observation decks during World War II.   It was interesting to see these modern-day sentry posts sitting just yards from the Spanish variety circa 1500. After a few hours at the fort, we wandered around the city and vis