dear blog, it’s tuesday now, tomorrow we’ll have been here a week. it’s harder than I thought it’d be to keep a daily journal, but here’s to trying.

the days start to blend together in my memories already, but this first week has been a nice change of pace, especially since I found out that it snowed pretty much right after we left wisconin. we’ve found a decent place for internet and good food called @Es. it’s a hostel that rents hammocks or tents or rooms or surfboards, anything you need. and the front is a bar and restaurant that offers wifi for 1500 colones for 7 days which is about $3. it’s not the fastest but it works. we’ve been stopping there maybe twice a day to get our fix.

we’re still trying to figure out if getting groceries is more economical then eating at some of the places nearby. the food out here is so good and the trip to the store was a bit pricey, but you need essentials, like coffee and beer!

we’ve been going to the beach every day. we found a path that’s very close by and if you have a decent pace to your stride, you can be in the ocean in about 5 minutes. I’ll have to time it one of these times.

the water is so amazing. it’s warm and the waves are perfect and sometimes a bit large. we’ve only been body surfing so far, but it’s not too difficult to find yourself in a picturesque tube of a carribean wave. just this morning paul and I heading down to the ocean at 5am to catch the sunrise and a few more tubes. what a great way to start the day.

our good friend shultzman arrived on sunday at around noon. we met him at the Internet cafe, had lunch, showed him the house and then the beach. mostly we’re all just relaxing a lot but yesterday we took a drive north to cahuita and stopped at the sloth sanctuary for the tour. we took a canoe ride down a jungle river spotting animals then got to meet a lot of the resident sloths. our tour guide was the same guy dawn interviewed for D&Dtv a while back. we became friends and gave him a ride back to puerto viejo. normally an hour long bus ride, we got him home in about 20 minutes.

we made it back to the house in time for a quick dip in the waves and then played some cards with paul and shultzman while drinking quite a bit of jack daniels.

the dogs have been surprisingly good. they seem to really enjoy the warmth and humidity. they’re flooded by other dogs and cats that come and go and have made a new friend named tootie, who is a little black dog from next door who has decided to just hang out at our place from now on, especially when it’s feeding time.

we’ve recorded a couple of podcasts so far and my intention is to link them up right here when I get back online with my laptop (I’m posting this on my iPhone)
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so there you go mr blog, another update from beautiful playa cocles in costs rica. I’ll get working on the next one…

pura vida!