Hey Folks: Per my email, here are some pictures of our first 20 days in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is great--to us, it´s like a cheap version of Italy, similar culture and lifestyle, people are out and about every day of the week from the crack of dawn, 6:00 until dark. For those of you that don´t know, the sun is up from 6 am til 6 pm every day of the year. At 5:30 exactly, here comes the rooster crowing, even though we live in the middle of the city (we´re not exactly sure where he lives, but it´s close). The couple upstairs get up and and begin singing opera. We get up too and make coffee in a ¨sock¨, held up by a metal wire (picture below). We mix the coffee in boiling water
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