It's Time To Go Home

This is the club house at Hacienda del Mar (where Mark's condos are). It's getting close to being finished and is going to be beautiful.
The back side of the clubhouse. Checking out the pool area.
Our last day of swimming.

Yay! Look at the fuzz. Journey's getting some hair!

We have had a great time here in Costa Rica. Two weeks really gives you a chance to relax and unwind from our normal, busy lifestyle. Actually, it also gives you enough time to miss it again :)

The first week went pretty fast as we were doing so many new activities. This week wasn't quite as action packed.

Just so that I will remember later what we did...

Monday - African safari zoo

Tuesday - we went out to Mark's project to see the project and show Aspen and Journey. There was actually a lot of progress since we were here in June, so that was nice to see. From there we drove up north and saw the entrance to the Four Seasons (guarded, so we didn't go in). Then we went exploring through the jungle on barely a road looking for a deserted beach. We never did make it as we were stopped by a 30 foot wide river. Passable in the hot season, but not in the rainy. We could see two houses that were cut off across the river. We talked to a lady who lived at the river's edge, curious I'm sure about a car full of gringos that far off the beaten path. She knew no English and we didn't know enough Spanish to figure out how far away the beach was once we crossed the river (she told us she knew a place to get through). We settled for Hermosa Beach and lunch at The El Velero.

Wednesday - Mark had meetings all day so we hung out at the villa for the day

Thursday - Mark had more meetings. He dropped us off in Coco for a couple hours in the morning before meeting us for lunch.

Friday - We had heard from a couple different people that we should go check out a town called Puntarenes. That was a mistake. We drove for 2 1/2 - 3 hours. Walked around and got lunch there. Were hastled by the Ticos, and left in less than 2 hours. Driving that long with small kids is not fun! We did get in a lot of "I spy with mine yittle eye.........". We did have fun with that!

Oh, and it rained all day.

Saturday - our last day here. We had a great day. Found a cool new coffee shop, played at the pool a couple times, and had dinner at a cool beach front restaurant. The weather started out rainy, but turned sunny and beautiful. Probably the least humid day of our trip. We had a great time as a family, and we won't soon forget this trip.