Semana Santa!

Parakeets at Rafas

Happy Semana Santa!  We've got lot's to update...

I'm on a horse!

We managed to get out for our first horse ride the other week.  Tormenta and Caramela were great, and didn't seem to mind the weight on their backs.  They each got a bucket of molasses as a reward for not bucking anyone off.

We spent a morning at Rafa and Digna's house just down the road.  Isaac's family has known Rafa since they first came here, and he and his wife both spent some time in New Jersey, so their English is really good (lucky for me!).  Rafa breeds song birds, and in their back yard they have two big houses for the birds (parrots, cockatiels, budgies, and many more!)  It was so neat!  Rafa pairs the birds up, and then they lay in these little bird houses.  We got to peek in a few boxes at some babies (terrifying and cute at the same time?). 

New fence

Isaac and I finished the bamboo fence around the garden.  I had two jobs (sand the edges to make them look nice, and hold the bamboo up while Isaac wired it all together).  Isaac pretty much did everything else.  It was a beautiful, bright YELLOW bamboo fence for about 4 hours before the sun bleached it to dull beige, but it's still pretty!

Check ma specs!

We had a delicious lunch on Thursday at Rocio's.  Lis and I went over early in the morning to help with tortilla-making and vegetable chopping.  It seems to me that a lot of the delicious food here involves really A LOT of chopping.  It was delicious! Green papaya picadillo, palmito/veggie soup, rice, yummy salad, fresh handmade tortillas, and yummy arroz con leche (rice pudding),  topped with miel de chiverre and miel de coco (basically blended coconut cooked with cane sugar until it is delicious!) for a desert.

We'll head to a fair in Monte Carlo tomorrow that should be fun.  And Isaac and I are planning a little trip to Drake Bay and Corcovado National Park in a couple of weeks, which will be really neat.  You have to boat down a river, and then south along the coast to get there!  Let the adventures continue!

Isaac washing the dog

We’re almost at our 2 month mark, time is flying!!  Hope everyone is doing well, we miss you!  And have a happy Easter!