El Limbo on the Sea Hotel Isla Colon

... dopo un’estenuante contrattazione con i ragazzini
locali, ci imbarchiamo per Isla Bastimentos, autentico gioiello
dell’arcipelago protetto da un Parco Marino. Durante l’escursione
navighiamo in una baia dalle acque profonde dove dovremmo vedere i
delfini, da qui il nome Bahía de los Delfines. Siamo fortunati: dopo
pochi minuti ...

... this hotel. And since Candice, Justin, Mike, and Nette bought us a notepad (mini laptop) we can carry it with us and blog when we have a moment. They set up Skype on the notepad so we have been able to talk to the kids and grandkids a couple of times. Little Blake cant' understand why Grammie can't give him a cracker right now.

... by, at least from what I noticed. As I sat in the warm tropical air, my mom was on my mind. She lost her sister on April 29th. I sat and wrote a letter to my mom because I love her and she has always been so important in my life. I reflected back on the life of my mom, my aunt and the relationship they shared and felt the sadness my mom must be dealing with. I enclosed a 1,000 Colones bill with her letter as a token of my thoughts along with ...

... get a good picture with English commentary and Steven Jones missed that last kick. We left the internet cafe with our nerves shattered and with nobody to share the historic celebrations with. So we decided to have a few drinks on the patio of our hostel and see what happened. Things escalated fairly quickly and soon had snowballed out of our control. We ended up at ...

... I went for dinner at ultimo refugio and it was great! We joined the group for some late night entertainment which included a group funded firework purchase. For $21 we got a nice little display. After we set ours off other people soon followed. Fireworks were coming from all directions. It was amazing until it started downpouring. We made our way to the bar - like many other places, ladies night draws in the crowd. The night was filled with ...

... into donkey mode and loaded up with my bags to do the big move into our new Panamanian pad, about 15 minutes of sweating away. Within a day our stuff was spread haphazardly throughout the house, it's going to be a good time moving out again... It's a strange house. It came furnished. With chunky, dark furniture, just enough dishes for us to improvise with, and oddities all around the place as decor. Although I don't know what I'd do without my tri-dolphin ...

... gorgeous blue eyes, opened wide and pleaded a yes. While in her silence she could be mistaken for being a bit in the clouds like some of the others, when talking to her (she understands english) I can see in her eyes how sharp she is. I confide in her about all sorts of things in my life, nattering away, she responds with smiles or disapproval or warning, all within her deep blues. I really love her and have been so happy seeing her progress and strength return to the ...

... you wished to carry in your hands on your venture outside into the big grey. On our first day, in rebellion against the rain, Silvia and I got into our bikinis and clothes that we wold sacrifice to being moldy for the weeks to follow, and joined Frederik, our Swede, and a bunch of Aussies and Canadians in search for something to do and somewhere high for us to jump off. We didn't encounter any cliffs, but down the end of the main street, 3rd Ave, there was a large ...

... band at Bohmfalks, then it was Ladies Night (free knockoff tequila shots for the ladies) at "La Iguana," a reggae bar with a waterfront patio, to yet another bar with a name I cannot remember, but it was something like "Hondo Murtido." The high/lowlight of the evening was spending most of the evenin talking to slash hitting on this group of four Austrian girls. They were all hot, but way too young and I think we all knew it. Friday was ...

... which was very kind. They reminded us though that the starfish were alive, and to not hold them out of the water for long.

We basically just relaxed on the beach and snorkeled with the starfish. I read my book, "Jaws," which I borrowed from the hostel. Afterwards we grabbed a couple of coca-colas at the outdoor restaurant until the taxi came back to pick us up.