On Sunday we got up leisurely and the the girls all ate fruit and granola while Tim decided he needed the more substantial breakfast that was offered downstairs by the kitchen there. While we sat on the balcony and nibbled, Tim received fruit, juice, gallo pinto, eggs and bread. When we arrived the night before we discussed with the manager that we wanted to go to the Volcano Turrialba and also the Archeologic Discovery Guayabo. The driver called his colleague who had a 4 wheel drive Diahtsu (?) and we made an arrangement that he would take us to the two places for 40,000 colones which was about $80 for all of us. We decided that was okay and we loaded into his mini SUV and headed for the Volcano. It took a long time to ... read more

Hello everyone! I am at an internet cafe hoping to upload my blog diaries and some photos but my unpredictable computer did not save these and so they are not on my flash drive now. So, I will try again a little later. I really want to post a blog since there has been no time over the last three days with our latest bus travel and tours that we did of the Turrialba Volcano and the Guayabo Archeological Dig. Also, Tim and I are traveling to Parismina today and we do not know if we will have any internet there at all. We will be there until June 3 when we travel back to San Jose then onto Alajuela (near the airport) and catch planes on June 4. Stay tuned for another blog later today, ... read more

Here are some pictures of Nano. This morning the twins from Florida went with their Spanish teacher to see Nano during their class time. We heard that Nano was quite excited to see these girls and their teachers. Tim's teacher said that Nano took his shirt off and was showiing off for them. Tomorrow Tim is going river rafting with both of them which he is quite happy about since they are so cute and nice. For some reason our friend Marcos backed out, but Tim thinks he will be able to handle them both on his own. Tonight there is a hot tubbing party and hopefully i can get some pictures of these girls so that everyone can see them. ... read more

Today we arranged for our class to start at 2 pm until 5 so that we could rent bicycles and ride 14 km to the Tapanti. Yesterday we spoke with the couple in town from Switzerland who rent bicycles and motorcycles and they had bikes we could use the next day. We invited our friend Marcos and went at 7 in the morning. It was a long uphill ride to the park and when we arrived we realized that we didn't have time to walk the trails and return back for class. So we just visited with the rangers for a while and visited some exhibits on animals in the park that they had on display. Afterwards we rode back on the bikes. It was so much easier returning than arriving. We stopped quickly to see ... read more

Late last night Tim arrived from Germany via Newark, New Jersey. I was able to check out the flight status online at the hostel and then I went my bus to the airport to get him. There were several flights arriving at the same time, so immigration was busy and there was much confusion for me not being very fluent in Spanish. But I did find him and we grabbed his luggage and took the bus back to the central part of San Jose. We made it back to the hostel without a problem and Tim was given a room on the second floor near me. Unfortunately for him, his room did not have a person of inspiration on the walls. But he was quite tired and was happy to have a clean peaceful room. Since ... read more