Puerto Viejo Day 1

7-7-11

                Today we woke up at 8 and had a breakfast with homemade bread, fresh fruit and breakfast cake (something we should start in the US). We saw the other families at the lodge, one French the other Portuguese and several Spanish groups although our lodge is intimate and local with only about 5-6 groups total. After breakfast we worked out which excursions we wanted to do during our time here and set about booking them. Since it was Sunday we were not able to do tours today, and the weather agreed, it was a bit rainy in the morning. So we had rainforest reading time on the porch of our lodge and when the rain stopped we headed in to town to look around and do some shopping. The only down side of the day was lunch. We had chosen a restaurant that had pizza and empanadas but it wasn’t owned by locals, it was by a French woman and an Argentinian man. We ordered our food, simple food, pizza, empanadas and water, but it took over an hour to get our food and there were only 3 goups in the restaurant. The waitress kept saying that the food was fresh so we started a joke that they were churning the butter and harvesting the flour four the dough.  When we got the pizza it was good, it just took and unreasonably amount of time to get it. Tico time tables may be longer that in the US, but I have never had that applied to food, or had that long of a wait in CR. Afterward we went back to the hotel to change into swim suits and walk to the beach. Here the jungle comes right up to the shore and so we took a short jungle walk to get to the beach. It was gorgeous and untouched. The only problem was that it was high tide and the ocean was almost to the tree line. We still walked the beach a bit, Devon and I adventuring over the trees and estuaries and mom and dad taking the more traditional/Official path. We couldn’t swim very deep since there were tide warnings today. We returned to the hotel at sun set and on the way saw some of our new monkey friends. We hit up the pool (cold) a bit before changing for dinner.

                For dinner we went to a restaurant called Jungle Love which was owned by two ex-pats. It was open air with Jazz music. The food was delicious. I got mango chicken and a strawberry daiquiri. It was a perfect way to end the day.   Full and happy we returned to our hotel to lounge in the rocking chairs and read.

More sloths!

Daddy and Dev

Boats in the Harbor