Woke up feeling great today. How could I not? Laying there with the slight breeze coming through the window and the ocean sounds coming in the other window. Hopped in the shower, straightened up the apartment and went over to the main house to see what Danielle, Mom and the boys were up to.
The ladies were sitting on the balcony drinking their coffee enjoying the morning view. Can’t say I disagree one bit. Blue sky, pelicans surfing the waves right along with the surfers, butterflies and black birds flitting in the trees. It’s going to be a great day. 
Had breakfast and after cleaning up – Justin and Otto took the “crab bowl” down to the path. 
Instead of composting, you can take left over veggies, fruit and what not down to the bushes and trees between the house and beach and dump them in the bushes – not on the path. In no time at all, the crabs, hermit crabs, iguanas and I don’t know what else clean it out. The wonderful fruit we bought yesterday had already reached it expiration date. While everyone else was showering and getting ready to go pick up Sierra – Justin and I saw a BIG iguana walking across the path to the beach. OH! There it is again walking up the log… He’s huge! You might see it in this picture – it’s black with a gray head and looks like part of the log. Hope you can find him…
We all piled into the car and it was off to pick up Sierra. Thank God Danielle went because her way to get to Liberia and back is sooooo much better than what we did yesterday. Not to mention a couple of hours shorter each way. Big bonus… it was paved more of the way than it was yesterday. Oh well, Garmin put in the good ‘ol college try. Along the way, we came across a herd of Brahma cows and their babies. Just walking along in the road with their shepherd on a bicycle keeping them where he wanted them to go with nothing but a little stick.
Look at those big eyes and floppy ears… how could anyone resist thinking they are on the cute side??
Got to the airport and Sierra was on the 3rd flight that had come in at the same time – of course we didn’t know this at first and were starting to get worried that something happened in Houston and she didn’t make this flight. Yesterday, Rick called just as we were about to walk out the door to get her. We finally saw her and were trying to get her attention so she knew we were there. She eventually saw us and it was smiles and hugs all around.
I must mention – because I may have neglected to on Day 1 – getting out of the airport terminal is rather chaotic. You have porter services, rental car representatives, tour representatives and who knows who else trying to make eye contact with you and herd you off to one direction or the other – you only hope it’s the right direction. In the middle of all of this are the Policia. They are playing referee between you and this group of hungry animals who have to stay behind the fence until you engage conversation or other wise acknowledge one. Once you make it past the feeding frenzy – you’ll be fine… but it can be overwhelming. They didn’t bother Sierra I think because it was obvious she had her own group waiting. Time to pack into the car. 
Next stop – Liberia. Lunch and grocery stop. All of the restaurants seem to be lovely open air places. No windows, birds/bats flying in and out depending on the time of day. Typically they are all covered but today’s lunch stop did have some completely open spots around the tree. I thought it was very beautiful – and where was my camera – in my purse. Sorry… After lunch was the farmacia, looking for mom’s skin cream. Successful visit. Next door – the ice-cream store. Yum! Next – the grocery store – Jumbo, pronounced Joombo. Everything was for the most part familiar. Instead of Kool-Aid, they have just as many varieties of Tang! Made me laugh. Got everything bagged and out to the car. Problem… car has a very small “trunk” area when all of the seats are up. I think we ended up with groceries everywhere in the car.
Made the much quicker drive home – got the groceries put away… TIME FOR THE POOL! Got myself dressed and to the pool and everyone had already been in and was out headed to the beach… Okey dokey. The ocean was perfect – of course. My dumb move of the day – I forgot to take my sunglasses off. Yep – you guessed it… the wave took them off for me. While they were prescription sunglasses – it’s ok. I’m just glad I didn’t loose my regular glasses – that would have been very bad.
The afternoon’s activities moved back up to the house and the pool. Figured out the internet and posted my first two blogs of the trip, Sierra let everyone at home know she made it… 
and we watched the sunset. Today’s was much clearer and we could see every moment of the way.
The sun is gone – time to think about dinner. Tonight we are walking down the beach and having dinner at the Playa Negra resort. A couple of dogs from half way down the beach decided to tag along and go with us. The dogs here don’t seem to belong to anyone per se… they just go where ever they feel like hanging out that day. Dinner was awesome. Fish again with a veggie stew beans thing and rice.
Heading back home in complete darkness – thank goodness for Justin’s iPod and Sierra’s phone that were both decent flashlights. Look what we found… Danielle thinks they are sitting in an avocado… When we walked up to it the entire center whole was full of crabs. By the time, I got my camera out many had vacated.
The hermit crabs apparently come out in force at night… 
There was a huge pile of them – no telling what they were going crazy for but tide was headed out… so it could be anything. My camera decided it was too dark and would take that picture.
Hung out by the pool to see if the bats would come out again tonight. Poor Otto – he tried to stay up to see them but he just couldn’t keep his eyes open. No sooner did he go to bed and the bats started up again tonight. Oh and I asked Danielle – They do get fireflies down here and that is what we saw last night.
Shower, blog and bed… Tomorrow is a hang out at the house day. Looking forward to just hanging out. Might walk to town (Los Pargos) and see if I can find post cards.
XXOO!
Justin watching the sunset from a good spot…
Pura Vida!
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