today we walked home from school Via the beach. It was beautiful and so peaceful.    We walked and walked looking at the critters on the beach and the we started looking in the trees for monkeys.  Almost home we grabbed a cool lemonade and swam in the pool at our favorite bar/pool hangout.  […]

this beach was very cool. Covered in shells. I love the sound of waves on shells. Sounds like the beach talking back to the crash of the water.  The kids collected shells, body boarded, and climbed on the volcanic rocks tide pooling. Lots of little critters hanging out.   

there are iguanas everywhere here. Little ones and big ones. This one sitting with Jesse is, no joke, the size of a very large house cat.  

this week has consisted of morning Spanish classes, afternoons in a pool, and late afternoons at a different beach. It truly is a paradise.  This is one of the amazing sunrises from our bedroom. Looks almost like what I imagine Africa to look like.   Our house that we are living in came with a […]

traveling from town to town has not been our strong suit. Once we got out of the cloud forest the heat hit us dead on. We are having a hard time adjusting. The first 1.5 hours of the journey we went 15 miles per hour over dirt roads.  As soon as we unloaded our luggage […]

Today we did my favorite adventure yet. We rode horseback down a canyon to two volcanic hot pools. It was so much fun and beautiful.    

We explored the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. It is a plot of protected land purchased by children in Sweden. Jesse stayed at night and went on a guided hike.   

I found a store that sells home brew kombucha! Like a little present from the home sick gods.  

These are the people in my Monteverde class. The gentleman is my teacher. His name is Jose. He was wonderful. Suzanne and I are going from campus to campus together so you will see her in Flamingo too. In this class there is Glenda from Colorado who breeds dogs and Holly from Boston, a retired […]

We enjoyed a quick swim after class then we hiked over to a chocolate maker to eat a wonderful lunch of milkshakes and more. We hiked back to school stopping to gaze at a full rainbow. After we danced the evening away until we strolled home in a mist while watching for fire flies and […]