Prices and a tourista weekend!

August 18, 2007 by Rick.

After supper, (after the beach, after school) yesterday we relaxed, and went to bed early (about 9:00 or so). I don’t think the family we’re staying with is used to their guests sticking around home so much. They’re probably more used to kids (16-30) who go nightclubbing most nights.

Today (Saturday) we rose early again to go on a booked river rafting trip. It was fantastic, but shorter than we had thought. The pics the guide in a kayak got of us were awesome! and I’m going to pick themup tonight to hopefully get on the web in the next day or two. It was just our family with one main guide (who lived in B.C. for awhile and spoke English very well) plus a guid in training. Luke was enormously scared at first and we had to force (read: threaten) him to go. He was laughing tonnes and had an absolute blast! The guide-in-training got tossed out once and we almost lost Alex. Luckily she had her feet wedged in propperly and I pulled her in after composing myself from laughing so much. Her eyes were GYNORMOUS!!!!

For the afternoon Claudette and the kids went back to the beach without any valuables to worry about. I came back to the house to get the phone and head to the COSI school to make some calls again. My arms have a bit of heat / salt water rash anyways, which I want to heal up a bit before I head back into the waves. I was told that the school wasn’t opened on the weekend at all though and walked down into town to use the internet there instead. There is no wireless internet in the town fast enough to use the phone though, so we’ll have to wait until Tuesday after lunch to make some more “hello” calls. I also want to start doing some backups of camera DVD’s onto the mini portable hard drive.

Tomorrow (Sunday) we are going to Casandra’s house for her third birthday celebration. She already had the party at Grandma’s house (where we are staying) on Wednesday, but we’re gonna all go to her house and her Dad’s suspension bridge canopy tour. The drive will take about 40minutes we’re told,and since there’s 12 of us, (toomany for a taxi) we’re going to rent a mini-bus for 20,000 Colones ($40 US) each way.

One of my uncles quereied about actual prices so he could compare to home, Mexico ect. Muchos bueno idea! I’ll put them in the full message below, so you’ll have to click on just this post to read more…

Prices.