Saturday, February 9
After another delicious breakfast, we planned to go for a
walk into town or on the beach.
The kids had other ideas… they hopped in the pool. It was so hot out, we couldn’t blame
them. Kirsten took the opportunity
to Skype with her parents, and Eddie discovered a few messages from Amanda. Eventually we got a hold of her and
learned that a window had been broken in our house. All is well, nothing was taken; but we were confused as to
how it had happened. To make a
long story short, we think the kids that like to play by our house threw a rock
(they said "at a snake"). Whether by
accident or not, we don’t really know. It has been fixed and they are not
allowed to play at our house for a little while because they lied about it. It is a sad moment, but we hope to see them
learn a lesson and that we can continue to build a relationship with them and
show them the love of Christ.
Once all that was resolved, we decided to go on that
walk. It was so hot, and we didn’t
find much this time around.
We
headed back to the beach and let the kids play in the shade.
The guys headed to town to buy our bus
tickets for tomorrow morning, and they found us some lunch and dessert. While they were gone, we got another fun
surprise. I had gone down by the
water to try to get Jaden cleaned off and to play in the water. He was still not happy about it. When I glanced back up at the beach, I
see Kirsten pointing at the trees and making strange monkey like gestures. I called Noah out of the water and took
Jaden up to see. There were about
6 monkeys eating and playing in the trees. They were so close to us! It was amazing!
Eddie and Ryan missed it. Amongst
all the chaos of the monkeys, there was a guy there who looked up in another
tree and spotted the sloth again.
He had come down during the night and climbed up a different tree. It was much shorter, so we could see
him pretty well. It is hard to see in the picture, but his face is just above the lower branch on the left side of the tree:
Kirsten shook the
tree and it slowly turned its head to look at us. It was pretty cute!
After all the activity died down, Jaden took a long nap in the shade and
we all played in the sand. We
found a hermit crab and it entertained both the adults and kids for well over
an hour. Eddie did his beach
ritual: digging a hole to China, and the kids and I tried to make some sand
sculptures. We had a blast!
When we got sick of being sandy, we cleaned up again and
spent some more time in the pool before dinner. We also chatted with some other hotel guests. They have been visiting this hotel for
the past 12 years and knew all about the monkeys and sloths. While we were eating dinner, another
monkey swung down through the trees and sat on a light pool right next to the
restaurant. There was a big bug
flying around the light and we watched him catch it and eat it before moving on
through the trees down the beach.
We are so thankful for these exciting moments where we get to see parts
of God’s creation that we don’t usually get to see!
After getting the kids in bed, Ryan and Eddie felt like
getting some pizza from a local restaurant, called The Wagon. They took the bus there, and then
walked back to the hotel. Kirsten
was in bed a sleep and I was just finishing packing up and getting ready for
bed. That didn’t stop us from each
polishing off 2 slices of pizza.
It was delicious. Eddie and
Ryan told me that they met two missionary girls from Honduras. They were in Costa Rica to renew their
passport, and the owner offered to give them free food for the week if they
would help him out in the restaurant.
They were staying in the hostel by the beach for about $4 a night and
getting free food. What a great
way to spend the week!
Sunday, February 10
We met for breakfast around 7:30 and planned to check out
and catch the 8:20 bus to the main bus station. Our tickets to San José were for the 9:30 bus. Since the boys hadn’t quite finished
their breakfast, she stayed down by the restaurant with them while Ryan, Eddie
and I went and got our stuff and checked out. She was taking forever to meet us, and we were worried we
would miss the bus. When Ryan went
to get her, we discovered what the hold-up was. After we left, about 30 monkeys came in and just about
raided the kitchen. They were
taking bananas off the buffet and running on the tables and the rafters,
hanging from the roof and even baring their teeth. The aggression was because there was a momma monkey with a
baby on her back that was passing through with them! Kirsten was in shock and a bit afraid for her kids so she
didn’t get many pics, but she did snap one of the momma and her baby! She was then told that the monkeys pass
through that area every morning… why didn’t we know that? We missed it 3 mornings in a row! Oh well.
We caught our bus and started out trip. We were a bit nervous that this trip
would be more difficult because we hadn’t purchased all of our tickets ahead of
time. We arrived in San José
around 1:15 and were able to buy tickets for the next bus at 2:00. We were back in Turriabla by 4:00 and
home by 6:00 (Not 5:00 because we stopped in La Suiza for some groceries and to
watch Josué play fútbol in the plaza.
When we got home, Amanda treated us by making tacos for
dinner!!! I love tacos and have
not had them since October!!! They
were delicious! We unpacked and
told her all about our trip, and she told us more about what happened with the
kids and the window.
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