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.