This morning as I was taking a refreshing suicide shower, I casually glanced down to see a ginormous spider rapidly crawling up my leg. When I say ginormous, I mean ginormous! So he wasn’t quite as big a tarantula, but he must have been a close cousin. Continue reading Attack of the Shower Spider
Our custom made furniture arrived last night. We had a dinning room table for 8, one queen bed, a set of bunk beds, and a TV stand made for us from a furniture maker in Sarchi. It cost a little $2,000 for everything. Continue reading Christmas on Halloween
A colony of ants has taken a real liking to our dryer. I’m not sure why. We first noticed it a few days, when there was a bunch of ants huddled together inside the dryer. I turned the dryer on for a few minutes and wiped out what was left of the ants, and thought that was the end of that. Not so! Continue reading Ants in my Pants!
We (Walter, Hannah, Elly) went skating with the youth on Friday night. I can honestly say that this was the worst roller skating experience of my life! And I include Montana in that assessment. Ask me about Montana some time. Anyway, we payed an extra 500 colones to get the “better” skates. Continue reading Roller Skating
I decided to get a Costa Rica driver’s license. I read several blogs and talked to an American who recently got his. Most of the blogs said it is well worth the money to hire a Costa Rican to help you through this process. However, after reading up on the subject I decided to go ahead and try doing it on my own. Here is how it went… Continue reading Driver License
This morning we dropped our kids off at school! There is a single small private school in Puriscal that is “bi-lingual.” I put “bi-lingual” in quotes, because they only have two periods during the day in which they teach and speak English. Continue reading Off to School
Our first fun activityThe Roberts have a membership at a private resort called Punta Leona. They invited us to tag along for a day at the beach. We haven’t really done anything fun since coming here, so we decided to take a day off and head to the beach. The drive from Puriscal takes about 1 1/2 hours. It really isn’t that far, just a few miles, but all the roads in CR are very small and windy. Continue reading A day at the beach
So we found a place to stay, at least for a while. We are still hoping to find a bigger place (actually, we may have found that place already, I’ll explain a little later). We just got our high speed internet connection setup this afternoon.
For now we have rented a good sized Tico style home with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. We moved in Monday (yesterday). We bought a washer, dryer, and sectional sofa with sleeper bed on Saturday. We also ordered a dining room table, queen bed, bunk beds, and TV stand from a furniture maker in Sarchi. However, these won’t arrive for a couple of weeks. Continue reading Home sweet home
