our time in paradise

It's Sunday. I'm sitting here (actually, totally lazying around), drinking a beer. I want to tell you about our day yestaurday and up to today.

Well, to start, we have been feeling like we are sleeping in but in reality (what is that again?) we are up and dressed usually around 8:30 or 9am. We all usually wake up around 7am, but feel like it is way to early to start the day, so we all cuddle in together and sleep a little more. The sun is up at a time when only the surfers should be, but it is almost pure black around 5:30 pm. So anyways, we were dressed and went downstairs for breakfast. They only serve breakfast here, but it is amazing. A huge bowl of fresh fruit and some home made bread and honey. Oh yes, don't forget 4 or 5 cups of coffee between Chris and I. Callym had fresh Mango juice and Oscar had fresh Watermelon juice. Delish! We took a walk into town (Montezuma - only a 5 minute walk along the ocean) and did a little touring. Being the low season, almost nothing is open. I'd say only 4 restaurants, and 4 shops, 3 internet places, and about 5 tour companies. The buses are coming in everyday with new people, but they aren't staying yet. High season starts in November, so things should pick up then.

It started raining again so we headed into an internet place to check our email. Thank you Isabel for the beautiful email! We tried to do some chatting, but the connection was too slow. Maybe later? I'm not sure what time it was by now, but the rain had stopped again, and I was hunger. We headed over to Chico's bar and ordered a few beers and juice for the boys. No food. Opps. The boys had fun with their cars, and I ran across the street for some lunch, no one else was hungry. (If you've seen the pictures of the boys throwing rocks, please note that Callym just looks mal-nurished, but is really not!) My dellisious lunch was a monstorous tomato, cucumber and avacado sandwich made with everything fresh including the bread. Yum. I met a couple from Saskatewan during lunch. They were here for a small vacation and mentioned that when they were here 5 years ago it looked exactly the same. No new hotels, restaurants or shops. That to me is very amazing, especially in a place so beautiful. We chatted some more and found out that they just checked into the same hotel and are next door. Hope the boys don't keep them up! During this time it had started and stopped raining again. We came back to the hotel and went into the tide pool. The tide was quite low and the 'sand' (if you could call it that) was made up of small rocks and broken shells. I think it was 80% shells and 20% rocks.
We had a great time picking rocks and splashing around. Callym decided that we should make jewlery and sell them to people. He even tried selling some to some American's we met. The American's are here looking for property, staying at the same hotel, and are using one of the same realtors we will be soon!

Now time for a siesta! The boys crashed pretty hard today. I'm not sure when they fell asleep, but they didn't wake up until almost 5:30. Dark, but not too late. We headed out for dinner, and stopped by where I went for lunch. Such good food here, I won't even tell you what we had, but again it was huge portions, and everything fresh. Chris (one of the American's) saw us and chatted for a bit about his property hunt, seems he's more into the development rather than a new home - but he's had good experiences with the realtor Christina, hope she's good with us too! A small stroll around 'town' (so funny to say that seeing as it is about 24 shops/bars/etc). Not even a town. And another check on the computer. Eskimos were just about to start, but the connection was too slow to watch. Too bad for Callym and I. We headed back to the hotel and it was nearly 8pm! Where did the time go? Still too early to sleep, so we played a few games, and tried watching a dvd on the computer. (no tv, phone or internet here - so nice actually!) The waterfall and raging river is right out our hotel room so we were unable to hear the movie well. We got into our jammies (by now it was almost 10pm!) and got to dreaming. Although the waterfall/ river is loud, it is really calming to sleep to.

The owner of the hotel talked with us last night about changing rooms. They want to put in air-conditioning before the high season starts, and asked if we would mind moving to one of the villas for the same price as the 2 bed appartment. We took a look at the villa and fell in love again. A two story fully teak home with amazing ocean views! Kitchen, huge rock and tile bathroom, 4 bedroom (6 beds), and living room and up and down balconies! Ok, I think we're moving on. It's just next door to where we are now, but we are considering it. The more room we have, the more stuff we will pull out to play with, but it may be nice. Maybe if someone were to come and visit us it would make more sense having that much space??? Just throwing it out there!
Anyways, we still don't have any solid plans. We know we're going back to Heredia for a few days before we fly out to Belize on Nov. 31st. But other than that we're just going with the flow. I do think we're staying in this area, but with so many little towns around here, we really want to check out more than one. For now I think our make-shift plan is to stay at this hotel until Friday, Saturday or Sunday (see. not even sure about that!), and during that time our realtor will have taken us to a few other towns to see homes. Maybe, just maybe we'll fall in love again and stay in another sleepy town for a week or two. Just to see.

Rabbling on a bit now, but we had a fantastic sleep ( no strange critters yet, but I'm still waiting for a big one to freak me out). Another wonderful breakfast here, and we headed out towards Cabuya. We thought it would be a nice short walk, we were just strolling along the rocky beach, picking up sea-shells and looking into the jungle on the other side. (it is literally jungle on one side and ocean on the other). Humming birds were wizing by, butterflies were on every tree. The air was fresh and thick with sea salt. We were walking and walking. I'd say it was over an hour, maybe close to two. The roads here remember are muddy and narrow. Bumpy too. Pot holes the side of home! LoL. Finally someone stopped, and we found out we still have a 30 minute walk. (more like a 1 hour walk with the boys), so we turned around and headed back for lunch. Finally the four tired Lukie's made it to town for lunch. Not much was opened seeing as it was sunday, but we still have a great feast. Tried the internet again, and now we're back. I'm checking the time now and it's only 3:50, we still have time for a siesta, and picking more sea-shells. (Callym is really into it, we even bought some fishing line at the store to try it out, he wants to make all his favourite chocha's some sea-shell rings!) Well, off for now. I may write more b4 tomorrow, but I can't count on anything being as we're really getting into the beach life. Lazy Lazy days. Just as Tony the Tiger would say 'It's great'!