WALKING AROUND OSJ: 2019

Now I have to admit that the MAIN reason why I wanted to stay an extra day in OSJ was because I had heard they put up the umbrellas along Fortaleza Street.

So I knew that's where we were headed for some pictures. It was beautiful and the sun was out again after a huge downpour.

What's a day in OSJ without Pigeon Park right? Pigeon Park is located right around the corner from the umbrellas and one of Sakari's favorite places. 

Then I caught something out of the corner of my eye...the biggest cockroach (I think) ever. It was scurrying across the sidewalk. The pictures don't do it justice AT ALL.

All these birds and then there's a cat..

And then this happened....Sakari the bird whisperer

Kendra and family finally made it and Kam just wasn't sure, at all, about these birds...

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She finally got used to them...and Shawna back there being calm...for the moment.

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Bill got into the action to show Kam it was ok to let them land on her....but she wasn't having it.

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​This is not the place for someone with a phobia of birds

Before long, Shawna was screaming and running for a bench. "I don't like these. I have decided I don't like birds"

They followed her and Billy decided to throw about a half a bag over that way....Oops LOL

Kendra thought she'd pay Billy back for throwing food over by Shawna...only he buster her out coming up around the tree she was hiding behind

We headed out of Pigeon Park and down the street and ended up along the other side of the coast.

Brayden caught a lizard and Sakari caught a crab...but we weren't exactly near the water ....hmmm..

We started walking down the street (going toward the graveyard and fort). You could still see some of the hurricane damage in areas.

Brayden found a rather huge bullfrog. Anything to scare Shawna

We managed to circle around and back down to the other side by the cruise ship area.

Last time we came down here, this was a park with stands for like outside concerts. They had made it into a kids playground now.

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Then we stopped for some Churros. Yummy

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​The hubby stopped for some ice cream but we had decided earlier that we wanted to go to the ice cream store that we had passed along the way and get some rolled ice cream. So, I didn't want to eat it twice.

We headed on down to the Raices statue. Last time we were here, this area and along the waterfront, was closed from the damage by the hurricane.

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We hung out for a while along the waterfront and watched the pelicans diving for fish.

Then it was time to move along. The hubby put up a fight about going that way saying that we'd have to turn around and walk back or end up all the way down by the fort. Well, I knew better than that because we had done it before. I'm not sure why he didn't remember the opening to get back into town. Well....I won the battle and we kept going...

Would ya lookie there...the gate....to get back in...without walking around. Hmmmmppppffff

Back into the city area and headed for our ice cream place.

We headed back to our hotel for the night. We didn't explore as much this time around because we have done it so many times and like I said, the main place I wanted to go to this time around was to see the umbrellas and I had accomplished that.