Today Jaida, Blake and I went to the pool for a few hours while Christian worked sipping his coffee. As we were playing at the pool, we heard some rustling in the trees and sure enough there were monkeys - one after the next climbing the same branches in a line. Each one stopped in the same spot, we waved and said hi and they sort of nodded and moved along. There must have been 20 of these little guys, we were so pleased.
When Christian was finished working, we all headed to the beach. We ate lunch at some new local spot and tried the chicken cosado - "authentic tico food".
The beach was awesome. It was perfectly warm - not hot. It started to rain so we all got ready in our bathing suits and played in the waves and sand for a few hours. Jaida really got into jumping waves and wasn't bothered by being knocked down, she was laughing the whole time. Blake was cautious around the water, he mostly just picked up big chunks of sand and waited for a wave to come to throw the sand at and then run away.
After a great play we decided to head home and the rain came down harder, it was pouring for our walk home. I carried Blake because he had sand in his eyes and was hysterical and Christian carried Jaida because Blake was being carried.
Our hotel made us a fresh pepperoni pizza for dinner and we watched Cars 2 before bed.
Pura Vida :)
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| check out the jungle view from our window, that is Manuel Antonio National Park |
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| white faced capuchins seen from the hotel restaurant |
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| the sweet little guard dog - Blake is terrified of this little guy |
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| view from our villa door |
Monkeys! That's such a magical experience for your kids to have - I bet they will remember that for years to come.
ReplyDeleteIt's so strange and funny to think that when it starts raining, you could put on your bathing suit! Hilarious! Of course I was expecting "we dump all our stuff in a blanket, threw it on our backs and ran for it" a la North Vancouver.
Here we are shivering in the frosty mornings and trying to warm up the car enough so that the door doesn't freeze open (it just won't latch again) which makes us even later for school than usual.
I hope you can find some of those special moments where you really can savour the pleasure of being where you are. To me, that's always my struggle when I travel. So many logistics that can distract from those special mmmm moments, but it sounds like you're already in a great groove! Congrats!
Love Miche