Nuevo look!

 Centella and Koda in the back

Just got home from a birthday dinner for Diego, and Julia. (Diego is Pancho and Ricio's son, they live next door to us, and Julia is a Gringo that lives down the road with her husband Bill).  Rocio cooked a delicious meal, rice with meat, with a green banana salad (soooo good).  I managed to get a few Spanish phrases out of my mouth, after extensive coaching from Isaac.

We spent the afternoon on a mandarina (lemon like fruit, that looks like an orange) hunt around the farm.  My new gumboots are awesome.  We found two trees to pick, but it looks like we might still be a bit early for them.  When we got home I buzzed Isaac's head, just for fun.

Tomorrow we might hike up to the waterfall with Sarah and Kyle (a couple from New York that are WOOFing at Rocio and Pancho's for a couple of weeks).

This is the flower the farm is named after "Granadilla Silvestre"

I've found a good website that is trying to teach me Spanish...I'm still on the pronounciation unit (section 10 out of 50).  Wish me luck.  According to Isaac I "frenchify" everything - so I'm hoping this helps!

Naomi

BUGS!

Last night we had a couple of encounters with kick ass insects...

This guy was going nuts on the porch and i managed to grab him in a cup and snap a shot!

Then this little gaffer flew up and started spazzing, so i got him to sit still for a minute and snapped a shot!

Pretty sure this is a Cicada

Today we had our first real rain of the trip........Koda found it amusing....a little startled by the sound of it on the tin roof....and everytime there was any thunder he ran for the hills!

Just another day!!

Isaac

Woah! Photos up online, check em out!

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Today we had the first rain of our trip, short and sweet. We spent some time pruning the starfruit tree and building a dam at the river to enlarge our swimming hole. I tell ya, so much work!!! argggggg

We've arrived!

Pic: Koda, Naomi, Charco and Pinto.


Hello everybody!


We have arrived safely and happily to the farm in Quizarra.  We had a nice drive yesterday through San Jose, and then over the "mountain of death."  We stopped briefly in San Isidro to pick up some groceries and fruit, and then headed out to the farm.  Poppy, Charco, Pinto, and Fraidy Cat came to meet us as soon we pulled in.  We made a delicious dinner of rice and beans, and yummy home made tortillas.  Koda is getting along well with the dogs, but seems to be staying a bit on the sidelines.  We are having to get used to Koda being outside all the time, and not on our laps.  He whines a bit at the door, and I whine a bit from inside, but we'll have to work through it!  Eventually he'll realize that outside is WAY better.


The cicadas wail away in the jungle 24 hours a day, and the birds are up before us.  Way before us.  Isaac is finishing the last of his coffee, and we're off for a walk with the dogs.