Going to Costa Rica

I'll be going to Costa Rica again this Christmas but I will keep my blog on my other blog site then maybe switch it over later,

nothing to do about anything

Blah blah blah
Nothing really new going on.

My brother left for Germany.

I have one class left in my A.A. and I'm kinda slacking in it. Shame on me!! I took a test last week and b/c I was gone I still don't know what I made. I hope better then my last test.

Going to Costa Rica for X-mas. Which should be fun. If all goes well I might go back for a longer stay later on next year.

I think this is the first year I am not really looking forward to Thanksgiving and it my favorite hoilday. I think it's because I don't really have any family to cook for. Yes, yes I have my mom but that is not the same thing. We shall see.

The stress comes and goes and lately it's been going up. But my life is not as hard as others so who am I to complain.

Over all I feel very melancholy and there is not much to do about it.

All about mom

So I found out that my mom read my Costa Rican blog. And she bitched at me for a few things I said about her.
For someone who LOVES!! there privacy she sure is noisy as heck.
I was adult about not telling people about her and my father get a divorce and she asked me not to say anything.
But she has to open her mouth about my life. To her friends and anyone else she feel like. I' m just should just stand back and let her. Double slandered much?
I think her biggest problem is/was that her mother died so she has had no one to turn to, ask questions to or tell her when she is needs to let go of things.

OK. I am done venting.

Back to San Jose

So today I still felt crappy. So sorry it if this is a little short.

I woke up around 7:15 and took some ibuprofen and went back to bed until everyone else got up. Everyone else got up around 9. Papi gave me something else to help with my nose and after that it was all down hill. I have no idea what happened but it was bad. I felt like I was really high or really drunk. I was having problem standing up. I was nauseous ..... all around crappy feeling. Thank goodness by the time we got in the car and headed back to San Jose I was feeling better.

We didn't stop to eat just a bathroom break. We got to San Jose around 5:20 and unloaded the car. Irena went straight to bed and has been there all evening. Maritza made soup because my throat is a little sore but I feel a lot better. I don't have a temperature anymore and no headache. I packed my last bag so I am ready to leave in the morning. My flight is at 1:30 so we need to get to the airport around 10.

Bedtime for me now..... tomorrow will be a long day.

Monkeys

I got sick. I didn’t feel well at all last night and woke up a few times. Around 7 Papi and Martiza left to put our names on the list. I decided that I was just going to lay around a have a temp for awhile and let my body do it’s think to fight off what ever I have gotten. I don’t know if they had breakfast without me or just didn’t have one. Papi did get me up to see the monkeys that I had been hearing the last few days.

After a few hours of suffering I decided to take some drug so we could all get on with our day. That was around noon. I got out of bed and went to the hammock while Maritza took a shower.

We all got in to the car and headed to Playa Tamarindo. The drive was nice but the beach was bad. There were TONS of people there and a lot of them were gringos. We had dinner at a cute restaurant right on the beach. I got watermelon juice (which was very yummy) and mai mai with tomato and ginger sauce.

We got back around 5:10 and by then I needed more drugs if I was going to make it to see the turtles. I took some and laid down in the hammock until we head out. We got there around 6 and there was a large group of people there already. After a bit we went in and signed out names in a book and got out numbers. (I was 47.) The whole group add up to 60 people. The group headed in to a little building and heard a small presentation on the leatherback. The 60 people split in half, 1- 30 and 31-60. The first group would go see one turtle and then the other would see the next one.

I don’t remember what time we head out to see “our” turtle but we had to drive a little. We got out of the car and headed to the beach thru some trees. It was very dark a little hard to see but I didn’t fall so that was good. There was a lot of wait but in the end we saw a leatherback. They are quite bit. Ours was not too happy with how dry the sand was, the dryer the sand the easyer the wash of the nest coallapes. She ened up moving three times to try to find the right place. While waiting I looked up at the stars. They are so nice here. Very little city glow so you can see thousands of then. She never found sand that she liked. Around 10:30 she said “Screw this, I am going back to the water. I’ll try again tomorrow.” Well at least that’s what she might have said if she could talk. We got back to the hotel and had a little snack. Now I am going to take my shower and hope that I feel better in the morning.

Frogs

I woke up at 7:15 this morning and Maritza was already up, making coffee so I went to lay down in one of the hammocks on the back porch. I had some coffee and waited for Papi to get up. I read a little but really just swung in the hammock and listened to the monkeys and the birds. Papi woke up around 9:30 and he and I headed toward the beach. It a little walk through the woods. The beach was nice, I walked down for a few minutes then we head back to the bungalow. Maritza had made Gallo Pinto and we had some tune with it. Richardo and his family will not be coming because they are sick.

One of my step nephews was sick Christmas day and so it seems Irena got what ever he had. She was in bed most of the morning with a temp. She had breakfast with us then slept a little more. We has lunch and left for the beach around 1:30. To see the leatherback turtle you have to buy a ticket. Papi check to see if they had any open spots for today but they didn’t. You have to come at 7 in the morning and put our name on a list to buy the ticket. After checking on that we parked and walk down to the beach. Irena and I sat down by the water while Papi and Martiza walk down the beach. After a while I decided to go in. The water was Great! It was not to cold and it was somewhat clear. The waves were very nice and not to big to body surf on. I was in the water for a least an hour.

We went back to change and decided to drive to another beach just to take a look. We ended up going to Playa Flamingo and stopping at a Super market on the way back to pick up some stuff for dinner. We had pasta and fresh bread for dinner. Papi saw a little frog so I took some pictures of them. By the time dinner came around I was feeling pretty crap. I am sure I got whatever Irena has.I took some drugs and laid in the hammock for a while. Papi turned on the TV and we watched The Pacifier with Vin Diesel then I went to bed.

Going to the beach

I woke up at 0700 to make sure I was not the last one up. But surprise I was the second one up. So I checked my e-mail and saw Maritza was doing a load of laundry. Then I knew that we would not be leaving in a hour like we wanted to do. I went back to bed to sleep for a hour maybe more. My Papi came in around 9:45 to tell me that I should get up and start getting ready. I told I was up before him and I packed last night. He closed the door.

Then the phone rang, it was Miranda. We talk about how Sofia let her sleep for 12 hours. This is great because Miranda had been having problem sleeping since Sofia’s birth. I told her I was leaving her a book and a few warm shirts (she doesn’t have many warm cloths). She told me about the beach that we were going to because she lived by it for quite a few months. I told I would e-mail her when I got back to the states. I hope I get to see her again before I leave to go back.

We ended up leaving the house around 11:30 but had to run to the store to pick up a few things. Then gas, so I think we really town around noon. That means getting to the beach at 5 which is when the sun goes down. In Costa Rica, dusk does not last very long. Not like back in Gainesville, where there can be a good 45 minutes (I guess) of dusk. So we would be getting there and then really eating dinner and going to bed. No beach, today. L

The drive was nice. I fell asleep for about 30 minutes in the very beginning and then was wide wake the rest of the way. The trip was made up of some little mountains then we went down into the “plains”, which have random large hills. We stop for 45 minutes for lunch. I had a huge chef salad that was very good. It had corn, heart of palm, cheese, black olives and shredded carrots. I could only eat half of it. We played some of the CDs that I brought so I was sing, softly, in the car most of the time.

We ended up getting here right as the sunset. Because of where we are people can’t go on the beach, at night, this time of year. The sea turtles are laying there eggs. Well, people can go on the beach but you have to pay to see the turtles. So we went to our little bungalow and Maritza made started to make dinner. I changed into my bathing suit and sarong. Because that’s what I wear when I’m at the beach in Costa Rica. Then Papi and I went to get a few more things we forgot like egg and salt.

After we came back I laid outside in one of the hammocks. It was nice outside but a little chilly so I put on a shirt. I fell asleep AGAIN! Papi took a picture of me while I was sleeping. My family does that a lot to me. Dinner was rice, black bean and tuna. Light and yummy. I sat out in the hammock again but it was not as nice that time because our neighbors ( young kids) were making tons of noise. So I took a shower and wrote today’s blog. Now I’m off to bed now it’s going to be a long beach day tomorrow. Then Richardo, Carolina and there four children should be coming in late.