Last Day of Work and Trip

The last day of work was December 5th.  Since we don't fly out till the 17th we took 12 days to relax and spend time together before we hang out with family through the holidays.  On Saturday we took off in our little 4wd rental car and headed for a night in Santa Teresa before a week in Tamirindo.   Thats Mery standing outside her house.

We took a ferry to Naranjo and it was a little different than the ferry's we're used to in Seattle.  There was no rope or fence across the openings.  Here is Julie standing at the front.  

Driving in Costa Rica was quite an adventure.  We we're going to take smaller roads up the coast but ran into a river that was too large to cross.  We could find any Indians to hire for 3 sets of clothes.  So that put us back about an hour and a half on the way to Tamarindo on the 7th.  

In Tamarindo we hung out with Ryan and went to the black sand beach Playa Carbon.  

We also tried out surfing.  It was kinda a disaster.   We got very salt and exhausted.  The waves at Playa Grande were about 10 ft tall during our surf lesson so when you get pounded by one it takes a little too long to surface.   Julie bottomed out her head on the sand twice.  We'll stick to boogie boarding.  

Last times at Hogar de Vida and the new office

We haven't been able to post a blog in a awhile, because our new office did not have internet for the week when we were there.  Here are some belated photos we thought you may enjoy of the new office, Andy's talents, and the kids at Hogar de Vida.

Andy set up camp in one of the rooms in the new office for our last week in Atenas.  My desk s right next to his.

Our calender that the guys would always ruin.  This was version 1.  of it, from November to the end of December.  As you can see, it is color coordinated.  This is basically what I would do all afternoon in the office.

Andy showing off his talents in the office.  The guys got a lot of work done there.

Dogs near our house.  The brown one would bark at us almost every day and I always thought he would try to bite at my ankles.  But he was a scaredy-cat.  He would run up the grass hill to his house if I even took one step toward him.

One of the babies, Brenda, at Hogar de Vida.  She just turned 1 on November 17th.  We started walking a couple weeks before her birthday, but still is not confident with her walking.  I saw her go about 10 or so steps though before I left.

Emmanuel, my 4 month old baby boy.  

Mar Darling and Emmanuel.  

She's a little confused of the camera.

The crazy 2 year olds in casa 1

The waterfall on the way to Hogar de Vida.