Apparently the artist who painted the town (literally) of Yauco has been going around the island and finding other similar neighborhoods to paint. We had heard that Aguadilla got the touch up as well and just had its grand hurrah a little bit ago. We spent the afternoon wandering around and stopped by Rompeolas by the sea for a bite to eat. It is pretty cool, but I think it would have been a little neater had they changed it up a little (maybe polka dots instead of patchwork?). Still very eye catching and a fun little jaunt up many a flight of stairs.

From the park, El Parterre, in Aguadilla looking up; it’s hard to miss!

The subdued park is such a contrast

El Parterre park was very old European in design

I am still surprised people live in this type of hodge-podge and very poor neighborhood. There is no way this would be allowed to fly in modern building codes, but I think they have been sort of grandfathered in from long ago when these were just squatter shanties during the sugar cane days.

Britton carried Aeden all the way to the top!

Having fun!

Look, we are camouflaged!

In a little side room/casita the residents encouraged us to take pictures

Britton and the little monster

Here fishy, fishy

People hanging out watching all the tourists check out their houses

One guy ran out of his house and chased us down to give us these old calendar photos of how Aguadilla was in the olden days

Cool detailed murals all around

From the road

Some areas up there still hadn’t been repaired since the hurricane

We had a nice lunch seaside at Rompeaolas

Look at that sweet smile!

Near Rompeolas there is a HUGE ceiba tree

It had dropped its petals everywhere!

Some of the real boats of Aguadilla

And Aguadilla’s gorgeous shoreline as we drove home