4th of July - but who knew??

Trip Start Jun 24, 2008
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Trip End Jul 22, 2008


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Hotel Puerto Viejo
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

We're finally starting to get some color! We've spent a couple days lounging on the beach that is 2 blocks from where we're staying (Sarah burned the entire back of her legs pretty badly the first day! good job!). In between such lazy days we took a 13 K (note: MASSIVE!!!) bike ride.

Now, at first you might think, wow... what a nice trip to take through some jungle and local cafes. However, imagine doing this on a banana bike cruiser, with little padding on the seat, practically no air in the tires, over an INCREDIBLY bumpy, pot-holey, gravely road. With a few hills that scared the crap out of us going downhill not knowing if we could trust our brakes, and were incredibly hard to go up without walking the bike. Good time? well, actually it was quite nice. The ride there was beautiful. Our end destination was definitely less than we hoped for. On the way back to town we saw... Howler Monkeys!! They were making some really erie sounds, but we got to see them jump from tree to tree and sitting enjoying the view. We wanted to see something exotic (the conversation had just been about jaguars...) and then it happened!

We've frequented our favorite restaurant in town, Bread and Chocolate, a couple times already. In fact, to celebrate the fourth of July we are having dinner with the owner (and ex-pat from Maryland) named Tom. He's very nice and going to help us find some crack-a-lackin' place to hang out tonight.

Tomorrow we're heading North to Tortuguero and hoping to catch some turtles in action. Keepin' ya posted always :-)

We love you and hope you are all having a safe and eventful 4th of July without us :-(
xoxo Brandi and Sarah B
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doc4x5
doc4x5 on Jul 5, 2008 at 03:46AM

happy 4th
Hi Sarah & Brandi,
It's great to hear from you two. We are glad you are continuing to have fun. Robbie is improving, weather is a bit cloudy, the girls are sticking really close to me with the fireworks noise, but it is not too bad so far. The thunder a few nights ago was much worse; we were up from 2-4...AM. Beryl had to work today. That's the news.
Be safe, have fun. We miss both of you.

Eric & Beryl

roaming_rufus
roaming_rufus on Jul 6, 2008 at 03:16PM

Livin' it up
I am so glad to hear that you are having so much fun!! I wasn't far from Tortuguero 10 years ago. We saw the most turtles at night. Hope you continue to have a blast and we missed you at Adam's on the 4th! Love ya!

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