120 Year Birthday Celebration in Panama

Aunty Kimmy turned 50 this year and Grammie Maggie is turning 70 this year. To celebrate these milestones, we decided to have a vacation adventure in Panama City this year because none of us had been there. Kim got us organized and booked a flight and hotel, Trisha researched things to do while we were there, and Maggie was along for the ride. We arrived the afternoon of February 16th and stayed at the Plaza Paitilla Inn on the east side of the city. Our celebration would last 4 nights and 5 days. These are a couple of pictures from our first day in Panama.

We left Chicago at 8 am on Copa Airlines and then arrived at our hotel, Plaza Paitilla Inn.



We then took our first of many crazy taxi rides through the city and arrived at the Amador Causeway for a celebratory toast with our first Panamanian beer and some patacones (fried plantains) at the restaurant, Cuyaco. The causeway connects Panama City to four small islands by the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. The causeway is made from rock extracted during the excavations from the Panama Canal and was meant to serve as a breakwater for the entrance.



We ended our first night with a beautiful view of the city from our hotel deck.