Sand Castle

When your only worry all day is if the tide is going to reach your sand castle, life is good.

right click this and listen while you read this post: Knee Deep by Zac Brown Band

During nap time today, Meg and I spent some time building a black sand castle... good times.  No seriously -- GOOD times...

We used the shells that we gathered from Tamarindo beach to decorate the sand castle and we were really afraid that the tide would carry away our shells.

I couldn't stop humming "knee deep in the water somewhere... my only worry in the world, was the tide going to reach my chair?"

Tamarindo

Making Sweetie proud - gathering shells on Tamarindo beach:

The girls with their haul... most of these are from Tamarindo but some are from our beach here at Playa Azul.

Los Monos y Iguana y Brahma Toro

These monkeys were playing in the trees right out our back door... so cool to watch them and listen to them - we can hear the males quite a lot but this is just the second good look we've gotten of them.

(Shout out to Jason - thanks for letting me borrow this lens!!!)

Sandy's pics and video of the Howler Monkeys

and this iguana is just out our back door, too!

 This huge brahma bull, however, lives out in the country - away from our condo! ;)

A Link

So Sandy is up and running with her blog now too:  Laramie Huberts

It will give you more pictures to enjoy!

22 Years

On Thursday night we celebrated Wayne and Sandy's 22nd anniversary with a dinner out at Picante - the restaurant in our condo area.  We were the only table in the restaurant.  It felt like we had our own personal waiter and chef.  The only drawback were the raccoons - which we have found out are in fact raccoons and not coati mundi. 

9 de Junio

Nothing too exciting to share for today - just another day in paradise ;)

 Jack is getting pretty confident in the pool - he enjoys floating around on his big yellow tube and playing in "Jack's pool" - which is only about 1 foot deep.

And it truley is "Jack's pool" !  Because it is the "green season" here in CR, there are not many other people around.  I think that we may be 1 group of just 3 or 4 who are here in the same resort -- and we haven't seen the others at all.  Whenever we've been at the pool or the beach, we have had both completely to ourselves! 

And regarding the "green season" - - we've had a few days that have been completely rainy.  Other than that, there have been some showers throughout the day but nothing that ruins the whole day!

So far, the weather has been great!

One thing I've found interesting here this visit are the "Scheduled Power Outages" -- shout out to Roseanna for giving us a heads-up on these!  Yes - on Tuesday there was no power from 8am to 2pm.  Interesting!

So, when Dave saw this picture of Wayne relaxing in the hammock on our beach, he named it

"Scheduled Power Outage" 

I cannot express in words how much this little boy loves the beach.  We can't keep him out of the waves!!!

And here's a shout out to Shelly -- look at those CUTE toes!!!  And painted up real nice, thanks to you! ;)

Hermit Crab Races

Oh how I love hermit crab races! 

First, you have to search and find the fastest hermit crab.

Then, everybody puts their hermit crab in the small circle in the middle and whosever hermit crab reaches the outside of the big circle first, wins! 

Good times!

And the second heat: