Arecibo Observatory & Ponce

The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope located close to the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The observatory's 305 m (1,001 ft) radio telescope is the largest single-aperture telescope (cf. multiple aperture telescope) ever constructed. You might recognise it from the movies Contact with Jodi Foster and the James Bond movie GoldenEye. It is quite a sight to behold. The drive south to the town of Ponce was extremely beautiful.
We got to Ponce just after sunset, so we thought. Have I mentioned the signage here in Puerto Rico? IT SUCKS! We drove through the town towards the beach to catch the sunset and barely made it though we were on the wrong side. We walked over to the boardwalk to catch the tail end of what was a fiery red sunset. The boardwalk was hoppin' with locals, booze, and live music. A police man stopped us and told us in Spanish that the dogs needed muzzles to walk around because of the kids. We told him we would take them back to the car (Sin's got freaked out anyway when she could see through the deck and see the water below, pretty funny). As we started walking away this lady walked up to translate even though we got it figured and she confused the cop thoroughly.
We decided we had seen enough of the boardwalk and went back into town. What felt like an hour later (stupid signs!) we made it back to the cute bit of town we had driven through earlier. We walked around saw the cathedral, fountain, sand sculpture and picked a nice little restaurant called Lola's to have dinner. We got some ice cream at Burger King and headed home.