Hola , Flip-Flops at the Cabina Door

We are here , FINALLY . 

So , leaving wasn't easy , saying good-bye to our daughter and son .  Could not find my passport at the airport on Wednesday morning at 5 am and just flipped out at the ticket counter throwing envelopes of cash we took for the repairs to our Casa and anything else in my backpack all over the floor........Passport found front pocket of my cargo shorts must have been the excitment of finally leaving to start our life here in Zancudo and just could not remember where I put it.......no cafe needed from the adrenaline rush and of course one very mad wife.

Long trip from the airport with our driver Luis , first stop outside of Alajuela one 6 pack of Pilsens just to easy the pain of getting out of the airport with that much luggage.  The drive south took us 6 hours so we stopped in Rio Claro for dinner and another one or two Pilsens to prep ourselves for the road to Zancudo ...........OMG........how could it be possible for the road to be that bad ?

Took several days to unwhind and headed to the border at Paso Canoas on Friday before New Years.........BAD MISTAKE people everywhere music blaring and every few minutes cherry bombs would exploded along with many many policia but we survived and actually purchased 2 queen size beds and one big ass FAN !

So , what a surprise on New Years.........2000 + Ticos rolled onto our small beach town.......never in our lives did we think that many cars , trucks , livestock trucks , and any other mode of transportation could bring that many people into town .  From 3 am New Years Day until early morning people just kept on coming .  Our curiousity got the best of us and we headed to downtown to check it out.......just so unbeliveable


Downtown Zancudo New Years Day 2012

 On Tuesday we headed back to the border at Paso Canoas in a Taxi to pick up a few things that included our new beer of choice " Old Milwaukee's Best Premium " at $8 a case.......living in paradise does cost money and Pilsens was eating up our budget at  about $2 a can.........life is good .

Wednesday January 4th our construction team.........Roy and Victor along with one gringo started remodeling on Casa Sencillo Paraiso

2 Queen size mattresses , electric , water and NO roof

Made a mad dash into the jungle on Saturday for lumber shopping..........that is a whole other story for later , check out our lumber shopping atire



Roy , Cj and Victor

I still cannot believe it and you want to know why , take a good look as we are in 8 inches of water just on the fringe of the jungle

No Crocs or snakes just a large troop of Ti-Ti's (squirrel monkeys)

Life is so amazing here it feels as though we never left.........Our days are full and many nights we are asleep by 7:30 .  We are working very hard to get into our Casa by January 28th .  We have met with another Luis......they are everywhere here and showed him our designs for our furniture , 2 queen size bed frames , 1 table with 6 chairs , 2 L-shaped sofas (wood) with 1 tall cocktail table and 1 short cocktail table and our wooden 2 pieces of kitchen furniture are at another Luis' being sanded and varnished along with all of our wooden shutters .  The long sunrise and sunset walks will have to wait for now but every morning we are awakened by the Monos Congo ( Howler Monkeys ) with visits every day behind the Casa by the White Faced Capuchins and Ti-Ti's.  We have picked Star fruit from our property  and soon the bananas will be ripe along with the 9 pineapples .  What more would one want but a simple existence in paradise ?

Need to close as tomorrow is another day of work on the Casa ,  mornings filled with wonderful Costa Rican coffee , fresh mangos , papaya , bananas and pineapple and afternoon swims in the Golfo Dulce , please do not wake me from this dream..........

1st Sunset Playa Zancudo , December 29 , 2011

NOTE:  Sherry has lost 2 pints of blood to the mosquitos , me just 1 or 2 bites in 2 weeks........Pura Vida