(I think) Part 2

Well today was an absolute blast! After breakfast we walked 10 minutes west and found a pretty good 'beach' area. The waves weren't too big, and there was an actual beach for the boys to make sand-castles and play. We were only there for around 2 hours, but it was so much fun. Take a look at the pictures here.


Christina picked us up for lunch and we chatted about what we are really looking for. She took us to 3 wonderful restaurants in town that are for sale under the 20000 price range. This price includes everything inside, as well, we would try to keep the cook and other's on to help. One was a pizzeria that is open right now and would only need a little work. Some paint, a new and working washroom, and an organic menu that I would have fun doing. One was an Argentinian BBQ place that is quite new and not open right now because of the low season. The last was a cute and popular place that also has some rooms to rent upstairs. I think it is a little out of our range, but something to think about. We're actually going there for dinner, so it will be a good chance to check it out.

She also showed us around a small little town called Delisias. Very cute, with about 20 homes, 1 grocery store and 2 restaurants. One of the restaurants was for sale, but it included a home and some more land - so it was out of our price range. She did show us an amazing plot.
Teak trees, howler monkeys, beautiful exotic flowers growing everywhere. But no home on it. We would need to build it. But that isn't so bad. The cost of a nice home would be between 10 and 20 thousand, and the land was going for about 20 to 30 thousand for a 1/4 acre.

All in all it was a great day. The town of Delisias is very small, but there isn't much land here in Montezuma. Actually, most of the people who work here and own business' live there. Interesting. We are considering this, but really feel like we need to not only see more of Costa Rica, but also look at at least Belize, if not a few other countries as well.

So, after a little looking, we headed off to the beach again.
So nice to finally feel the water on us. The boys really surprised us with how well they were in the water, and how much they loved it! Fearless those little boys are. It's almost the full moon and the tide is very VERY strong here. I almost got pulled out a few times, but the boys.... they would just run in head first! Have to be quick with those two! We are teaching them quick about this danger!

On the way home to clean up and go for dinner and local pulled us over and asked if we wanted to see his Monkeys? Ummm.... Turns out there was a family of 5 in his tree. We stood there in awe at the white faced monkeys, who in turn looked at us. It was too cool to see that. Real live monkeys (I know we've seen them at the zoo, but this was way different).
So now we've been up close to Monkeys and both tiny and small lizards. Today (it's now Wednesday) on the way to the beach a white faced monkey passed us on the street and took a good look at us, and at lunch the boys had fun chasing a few larger Iquana's around the grass area. Two nights ago at dinner, the waiter brought over a lizard about half the size of a lighter, it was wild, and so he let the boys play with it. This lizard went up and down their arms, into their hair, and back down. For a few minutes we lost it in Oscar's shirt, but there he was again, it was really cool for them.

Sorry this blog is a little choppy, I'm just trying to catch up.

Last night's dinner was great, but more importantly, Callym and Oscar made a great friend. Salvador's mother works at the restaurant we were at, and he was running around playing cars. Well, as soon as the boys saw a car, they wanted to go. Being North American, we didn't think it was right.... Silly Foreigners! Salvador came right up to those boys, handed them each a car, and off they all went! It was nice, but very different. We just sat at the table, and it was quite. Every 2 or 3 minutes the 3 of them would run by with there cars, driving them up and down the walls, over empty tables and having a great time. It made my heart so happy to see the boys having fun without us having to entertain them. There is something about boys and little cars that is the same in every country and every language.

Today at lunch I think I had my best meal ever! I finally found sushi! Delish, fresh avacado, rice, seaweed, and fresh yellow fin tuna. A coffee milk-shake and I was in Heaven. But 30 minutes later............

Ever heard of Montezuma's Revenge? The locals swear it has to do with a hang-over, but I didn't drink last night......... Well, someone had to get sick sooner or later, just glad it wasn't the boys!


More pictures will be on the site soon. I've been catching up for almost 2 hours, and need to get back. All our love,

The Lukies.

Monday and Tuesday (I think) Part 1

It's Tuesday now and we're going today to look at some properties, wish us luck - it may be where you come to stay! It will be really cool to see the other towns around in this area. We're hoping to be able to find a place to stay for the rest of November. Maybe in at least two other towns. Not sure. Montezuma is the smallest of them all from what we've heard. But we went into Cabyua yestaurday to walk around, some people said it was really nice with things to do. Well, it wasn't anything that we expected. Picture a town with a dozen homes, all spread out (about 2 every block) with farm land and jungle in between. The grocery store was the size of a hall closet, and there were only 2 restaurants. The town centre where we were dropped off consisted of a cross roads of 4 roadways. SMALL. But very very beautiful and it had a peacfulness that I have never been a part of before. Cabo Blanco National Reserve was just a few minutes walk outside of town, but it was so hot out today that we didn't want to make the trek with the boys. We will be going there, but maybe later in the week. After a wonderful lunch in Cabyua, we made it to the beach. The tide was out, and it's so rocky, that we just sat on some huge bolders and watched the waves. As I was sitting there, it sounded like it was raining.... I looked around, but there were no drops on the rocks. I then noticed that the beach was covered with Hermit crabs. The noise I heard was all of their shells hitting the other shells and rocks on there journey to where-ever!




I took some pictures of Montezuma, this is really the enitre 'town'. A cross-roads of 3 streets.




I hope you're enjoying the pictures so far. The boys are at the tide pool again, and I'm having some morning coffee. Very relaxing.




When we came home from dinner on Monday, we noticed that the water was out. It was raining and lightning again, but was that the reason? Chris went downstairs to ask..... Seems as though the entire town has been out of water all day! I wonder what our food was cooked in? No one has gotten sick yet, so I hope our luck continues. I don't know when the town will get there water back, but the hotel has their own supply and it was re-filled this morning! Ahh, to flush and wash your face. Things we seem to take advantage of. LOL.

Here things are both huge and tiny. Take the ants for example. You either have huge black ones the size of your thumb, or tiny red ones the size of 2 pin-pricks. Same goes for the spiders. I've yet to see a tarantula, but the tiny clear ones the size of about 2 pin-pricks are a little freaky. They are just sooooo fast! Not too many mosquitoes yet. But we do wake up with bite marks. Just a little itchy, but nothing that seems to make us worry. I don't know what is biting us, but we're fine. We saw a huge squirel today in the coconut tree. He was hanging upside down breaking open a coconut and drinking the milk. They are dark brown with a black stripe down their backs and bushy grey tails. Right now there are two 'exotic' magpies fighting in the bamboo tree.

I'm tried my hand at yoga yestaurday. It was really hard, but so much fun. I am going to try to make it to the sessions all week. Who knows, I may just learn to relax my mind and body! Here they are really into organic food, naturopathy, yoga etc. (funny how there is garbage on the roadway and no recycling containers!). Anyways, the 2 hotels up the road do yoga every day, and there is even a huge yoga retreat here at the begining of November (another reason we've been asked to move to the villa). One of the hotels actually teaches fire-dancing, but I'm not able to convince Chris to try it out, maybe later on in the trip! He's been practicing his Spanish a lot, and is getting really good at it. He's also been helping us out with it by talking to us in Spanish and then telling us what he said, and how to say it back.

Yestaurday was the first day yet that it didn't rain. Not a single drop all day. The sun was out in full force, it was super super hot, and it was just amazing! It looks as though today will be the same. This year (I'm not sure if I mentioned it before), but the rain has been really bad. Usually the Nicoya Peninsula only gets rain for 2 months, but this year it has been closer to 6! We are in search of a nice beach for the boys to run around in and play. I'm not sure if we will find it around here. Too many huge rocks. Not much beach. But if all else fails we will be on the Caribbean in December, they can get their fill in then.