Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pura Vida!

Costa Rica was a blast. It would have been fun to stay longer but it was time to come home to my wife and son. I owe Brianna a BIG thank you for staying home with Asher for 5 days all by herself. Here is a quick summary of the trip:
  • Alex and his wife Aricelly drove us from San Jose to the beach on Friday. They are great hosts and its always fun to hang with the locals instead of taking the tourist bus.
  • went surfing and tried to teach dad and Alex to surf. The surf is fantastic and the local surfers don't mind the gringos riding their waves.
  • tried some new foods (raw turtle eggs, some really good fruit i've never seen before, fried whole crawfish, gallo pinto, chorrilladas)
  • saw a bunch of sea turtles laying their eggs.
  • went 4x4ing across a river and up the mountains
  • helped some locals make maza from home grown corn. then ate some corn tortillas (chorrilladas) from the fresh ground maza.
  • saw cooper
  • good quality father son time with dad
  • freshened up my spanish
  • looked at some properties

hopefully dad will post some videos on his blog. here are a few pics.

4 comments:

Graytoppop said...

We had a great time. Alex and Araceli were great hosts! And I almost stood up on the surfboard (i got to a 'squatting' position a couple of times.

I'll post the videos later.

¡PURA VIDA!

MOM THE BOMB said...

That was nice of you to take your dad surfing.

Lindsey said...

That does look like coop dog!

Bexie Funk said...

i want to go somewhere cool. and its a little scary how much that dog looks like cooper. did he come running when he saw dad?