Hotel Diuwak Dominical

... likes to sing and play guitar, and sometimes we watch French movies. We all play different music for each other, figuring out what´s popular where. If there´s a futbal game on Carlos and Olman are glued to the broadcast over a cell phone. Live futbal games have even sprung up in the living room before! I´ve started teaching Olman how to play Texas Hold Em´, and have gone into town a few nights with some of the guys to grab dinner or a drink and just get out of the ...

... off to Playa Ocotal! Thank god for a real hotel, real shower, and real electricity. Seriously, theres not one picture without a mixture of dirt, sweat, sunscreen, and bug spray all over us. PS - A man at a pulperia (convenience store in CR) asked us if NYC was exactly what it was like on Sex and the City. And then proceeded to tell Liv she sounded exactly like Sarah Jessica Parker. Gotta love the influence of American TV. :)

... Manuel Antonio area but plan to spend some time on the Caribbean coast on our next visit. Wherever we will be back here at Las Cascadas. We're curious to see how the new construction progresses and look forward to seeing Gary, Catalina, Dallas, Dillon and Brandon and Gary's mom, Betty again. The time, especially the last couple of weeks, has passed very quickly but we are ready to go home, in spite of the fact that there is apparently still lots of snow at home.

So my group trip ended...which was sad because you spend so much time with these people and I had a great group...but instead of taking in the big city life myself and my roomate...also a Canadian from NB opted to head for the coast to take in some sun... The beach was absloutely ...

... amp; quiet sold me. It is located in the middle of a jungle. It's a 2 bedroom, 2 level house with a deck on 3 sides. As you stand out on the deck you look right out to the jungle and can see the ocean from the porch side! Our landlord is from Switzerland and lives up the hill. Its very safe :) And he has 2 pups so i still get my dog fix! We have internet so i hope to keep you all updated often. And pictures next time!! Loves and Misses, Danie

... m not really sure whether to be deeply disturbed or charmed and flattered by her mimicry, but I decide just to go with it. On the TV, the picture shows a group of attractive, toned Latinos speaking in both English and Spanish. "This is Zumba, baby!" they tell us, and we're off. They show us the moves slowly for about five seconds and then it's up to full speed for 45 minutes of ass-shaking dance aerobics! As we shake our hips and skip along to salsa, meringue, cumbia, and ...

... boots, but then went on a ten minute speech on how these were practical shoes and how all women should get them. They are made of rubber! They have traction! They are inexpensive! Sandra said that they weren´t that bad and how much were they again? Magaly, the kinder teacher and Queen of the tottering shoes, asked if they had similar ones but with a nice wedge heel. I said I didn´t know, but that she could go see. They had a lot of stuff in the back. So, just like ...

... longboard and looks like just the **** if you are surfing small waves in Baler... just a thought for next year's flat spell... More news soon I am really loving seeing all the wildlife, just hanging around... Oh, and when I surf, every day, I see pelicans flying really close to me. I love it! I am quite sure I have forgotten lots of stuff and stories and this is just a quick note... I will try and keep up with it. Enjoy the photos, see you all very soon. I love you, Dom

Hola! I think we have all been in a bit of a rut lately....Me waiting for Joel to finally be here, Maia waiting for Donovan, her boy, to finally be here and Jenna is in that wierd limbo period right before she heads back home on the 9th after 10 months abroad. We left Manuel Antonio gladly, on Wednesday and took an ecrutiatingly long bus ride to Dominical which we had heard great things about. It took 4 hrs to get to Dominical and for the record it is only 44km south of ...

... It took us 2 hours to go 44km (thats 27miles), yes thats less than 15miles an hour. The road was bumpy and dusty as hell. Well worth it though because Dominical is another sweet town. Chelsea and I found a dope room on the beach for a total of 25 bucks a night. Beautiful sunset. Really cool because everyone in the town pretty much comes down to the beach to watch the sunset. Its a fairly small town.