Catalinas Beach Luxurious Apartments Playa Flamingo

... I can best describe it as a really fresh queso fresco. It's crumbly and with a hint of salt. It went great with the thick corn tortillas which resembled a pita pocket. <br><br>Before heading out of the room I slathered my entire body with SPF 85 sunscreen. There was no way I was going to continue toasting my hide. After breakfast we went down to the beach and noticed a group of people standing at the waters edge. It didn&#8217;t take long to figure ...

... swimmable!!! I can't remember the last beach I went to that was so user friendly and enjoyable. If it weren't for the slightly brown sand you'd think you were in the Caribbean. Suffice to say that we spent more time in the ocean than in the pool today. I don't think we've done that at ANY beach resort we've EVER been to. <br><br>We started the day by having a pretty good restaurant at the hotel (included in our rate! : ) Costa ...

... Oh wait, that's right they didn't get one because Wall Street banks had to pay out multi-million dollar bonuses! To hell with that, let's go international, Hawaii is after all just another state... ; ) We looked at several Caribbeandestination but since it's hurricane season, we thought it would be best to avoid the region altogether. <br><br>We had heard great things about Costa Rica from everyone who had been and even some people I know who live there. And ...

... veterinarian named Rosalinda, who taught me the ropes and stuck around to help Dawn for most of the week. I must first devote a paragraph to praising Dawn and Sid's incredible efforts. Playa Flamingo has some of the most well cared for dogs of any area we have seen on our travels. The streets are not clogged with skinny, mangy, injured animals. In fact, most of the animals we saw were fixed, healthy and had collars. At first, we ...

... nest and they also are allowed to take a portion of the first eggs laid, it is the only place where it is legal to take eggs in costa rica and its allowed primarily because the first eggs laid would be destroyed by the later turtles that come to nest and the community can benefit financially from the sale of the eggs. We actually just arrived at the tail end of the largest arribada of the year and missed most of it but get ...

... we got up early and went to the beach, were we literally layed out all day. The beach wasn't as pretty as the one in Manuel Antonio but there was more room to lay out and you didn't have to worry about the tide as much. also this beach was a little more dangerous because there were tons of surfers and most were just learning. We saw a guy have his head about taken off by a surf board and had to go to the hospital for stitches. That night we went out to a resturant ...

What an amazing week! So the man shows up in the middle of the night and the only bus to Nosara the next day was at 6am. So we wake up at the but crack of dawn and race out to the bus station to get tickets in time, and as it turns out the bus actually leaves at 5:30. To our felicidad we got their just in time, at 5:35, and did not miss the bus as it nearly pulled out when we arrived. We were a little late to get tickets so we ...

... and only allowed out for 10 minutes a day to dry my wound in the sun after it had been cleaned. (See Sari´s photo for the big action of the day!) Fortunately we have plenty of books to read, satellite TV to watch and plenty of mothering to make sure I didn´t do too much! I only wish that I had brought my Psion so I could write the blog entries at leisure instead of the rushed efforts in internet cafe. However, that´s not such a big deal at the moment because the ...

... unnerving that no one really seems to speak english, maybe that will change tomorrow? I make sure we are in the new side of the resort and the rooms are incredibly nice, We seem to have arrived at the only time food isn't served in the hotel and ...

... paranoid, since every time a guy was looking at you, you started to think what he's got in his mind... But we managed pretty well in the end and one day the even had MTV's Latin Video Music Awards at the club across the street, so we had a chance to go and see a few chicks with fake boobs and nose-jobs... :-) The bottomline is, that it's really not the partytown everybody talks about, but I'll reconfirm that in about 6 months or ...