What are we doing in Costa Rica?

I’m sorry there’s been a post about poop at the top of the blog for a week! We’ve been busy! 

We’re now in Monteverde, a charming town perched high in the mountains. There are a few mosquitos, but nothing to write home (or blog) about. For that reason alone I would be happy to be here, but there’s also a fair amount of interesting sights for the whole family, as well as wonderful, cool, non-humid weather. Ah! 

We decided last week that we needed to get out of Puerto Viejo a week earlier than planned. The air was saturated with mosquitos. Graham’s bitten legs were beyond horrifying. We could. not. escape. That plus a desire to see more of this interesting country led to a flurry of last-minute plan making. Here’s a quick run-down of the past few days:
Friday: Book rental car. Start packing up entire house.
Saturday: Collect car, make hotel reservations for Alajuela (stopover on Sunday night) and Monteverde. Pack a lot more.
Sunday: Finish packing. Leave. Drive for 5+ hours. Spend night in Alajuela. Elizabeth comes down with food-poisoning-like illness. 
Monday: Zach, too, is afflicted. We load up on Immodium and drive to Monteverde. (Last hour is on a BUMPY road. Whoo hoo!).  Feeling better. 
Tuesday: Elizabeth comes down with mystery fever in the night, perhaps related to earlier woes. Spends day in bed feeling rotten. Zach wrangles children, secures rental house for the week, and locates an episode of Gilmore Girls on the TV for Elizabeth. Wins husband of the year award.
Wednesday: We move into cool, quirky tree house in Monteverde. Our nice landlady rents us the top, two-bedroom apartment and throws in a lower, one-room one for free for the kids to play in. Score! We settle in. Takes a long time to get internet access up and running, but this is finally achieved. 

Our plan is to stay here for a week and then spend our last 4-5 nights in the country in the Central Valley. After that, it’s home, sweet home. Nice as Monteverde is, we can’t wait for Texas.

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