hi dear ones!on wednesday ina and i got up at 5am and got on a bus to nicoya, and ina sat by a darling little old Tico farmer who gave her a mint. in nicoya we got on a bus to santa cruz, and ina sat by the same darling little farmer again. we got off the bus in santa cruz and i tripped on the last step and fell into a crowd of old ladies waiting to get on. that was embarrassing. we walked to the maxi pali (a new supermarket chain here run by the creators of walmart), got some breakfast, and met darwin and kristi in the parking lot. (i lived with their family in santa rosa back in 2005.) we all drove together to the liberia airport, and after dropping them off, ina and i drove back to their home in santa rosa, which we are house-sitting and playing Mum(s) to their teenage daughter Sarah, who i take to and from school each day. driving their aging isuzu trooper is quite the adventure. it loves to stall at the most inopportune times, and on day #2 the gas tank was past empty, even though they'd filled it before leaving. come to find out, the gas gauge is broken, and you need to calculate kilometers driven to figure out how close you are to needing gas. in the last 24 hours we also discovered the basement had flooded and one of the cats has a large, mysterious hole in his side. the joys of being a home/pet owner in costa rica...
in other news, after dropping sarah off at school yesterday, we went to Playa Conchal for the morning. it's named after the Conch shell because instead of sand, the majority of the beach is made up of tiny broken shells. i'd been before but forgot how gorgeous it was, especially when you have it all to yourself at 7 in the morning! we ate breakfast, swam, read, swam, napped, swam, and i spent the last hour snorkeling which was amazing: puffer fish, all different colours of angel fish, those fish that bury/camouflage themselves in the sand, huge circular fish, fish over a foot long, and transparent white fish in schools so big and long, i couldn't see the end of them. so beautiful.
today, we are nursing bad sunburns in spite of being generous with the sunblock. we decided they need to invent a sunblock that's like a glue stick: blue or purple when you put it on, so you can see exactly where you have/haven't applied it, and then it goes clear as it dries. sunburns + looming clouds mean time to get some work done.
love to you all!
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| Later that night, we dropped Sarah off at Tamarindo Beach, just after it rained. I love how you can still see the rain coming down over the ocean. |
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| Sunburnt feet and washed up shells. |
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| Open face tacos... we've eaten these for the last 5 meals and have yet to get sick of them. |
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