Happy, happy birthday, Mikaira! We love you!!
Michael and Gabriel went out to put our garbage and recycling in the bins along the main road. Then they went for a little bike ride and located Ms. Silvia Brown's laundry service. Silvia charges 2000 Colones per kg ($4.00 per) Not sure how many kgs we have, but we are in dire need of her services! Our towels smell so rank we can't stand them! We've tried washing them by hand, but it's raining so much, and is so incredibly humid, everything is getting musty smelling and here, nothing dries. Yuck!
We wanted to come during the rainy season to see if we could tolerate it. When we arrived we were told there was a drought-this is in the eye of the beholder...Everything here is lush and green and, to our dry-in-general prairie experience, pretty hydrated! But when you go over bridges, you see little water, and none at all in some places. The last 5 days or so have been making up for it-people are happy for the rain, but it does get tiresome. On a tin roof, it sounds like a big clothes dryer going all night-course, I may just be dreaming about dry clothes... Living in the Caribbean, a requirement is a dryer. And yes, we are tolerating it. You learn to go out in the rain, staying under roof only if it's drenching (especially if your towels stink-'cause you're never gonna get dry...) We're become quite adept at riding bikes through slippery, mucky, puddly lanes- it's kind of challenging and fun! You get wet and never fully dry, but it's warm, so you don't really mind. Like being outside in a "sunshower" in Saskatchewan. Nighttimes, I and Allie concur, we'd like blankets heavier than a sheet-you're not exactly cold, but you are damp-it's a comfort thing...
After lunch we delivered our laundry to Ms. Silvia and rode down to Caribe Sur, the areas' real estate agency, to check out property listings. They are a reputable company in this country where anybody might sell real estate, even if it doesn't belong to them...a different twist on "buyer beware". Seeing a few listings in Punta Uva, we thought we might try to find them. After riding a few miles, we wondered how far Manzanillo might be by bike, so we just kept riding. After we'd gotten about 7 or 8 miles, we detoured down a lane we were curious about, and discovered we were at a surfers' beach. Great fun to watch! Not quite sure which beach we were at-they are all so different and unique. (Punta Uva is our all time favourite so far). Realizing it would soon be nightfall, we weren't going to make it to Manzanillo-oh well, we're on Caribbean time; relax...there's always manana
Michael and Gabriel went out to put our garbage and recycling in the bins along the main road. Then they went for a little bike ride and located Ms. Silvia Brown's laundry service. Silvia charges 2000 Colones per kg ($4.00 per) Not sure how many kgs we have, but we are in dire need of her services! Our towels smell so rank we can't stand them! We've tried washing them by hand, but it's raining so much, and is so incredibly humid, everything is getting musty smelling and here, nothing dries. Yuck!
We wanted to come during the rainy season to see if we could tolerate it. When we arrived we were told there was a drought-this is in the eye of the beholder...Everything here is lush and green and, to our dry-in-general prairie experience, pretty hydrated! But when you go over bridges, you see little water, and none at all in some places. The last 5 days or so have been making up for it-people are happy for the rain, but it does get tiresome. On a tin roof, it sounds like a big clothes dryer going all night-course, I may just be dreaming about dry clothes... Living in the Caribbean, a requirement is a dryer. And yes, we are tolerating it. You learn to go out in the rain, staying under roof only if it's drenching (especially if your towels stink-'cause you're never gonna get dry...) We're become quite adept at riding bikes through slippery, mucky, puddly lanes- it's kind of challenging and fun! You get wet and never fully dry, but it's warm, so you don't really mind. Like being outside in a "sunshower" in Saskatchewan. Nighttimes, I and Allie concur, we'd like blankets heavier than a sheet-you're not exactly cold, but you are damp-it's a comfort thing...
After lunch we delivered our laundry to Ms. Silvia and rode down to Caribe Sur, the areas' real estate agency, to check out property listings. They are a reputable company in this country where anybody might sell real estate, even if it doesn't belong to them...a different twist on "buyer beware". Seeing a few listings in Punta Uva, we thought we might try to find them. After riding a few miles, we wondered how far Manzanillo might be by bike, so we just kept riding. After we'd gotten about 7 or 8 miles, we detoured down a lane we were curious about, and discovered we were at a surfers' beach. Great fun to watch! Not quite sure which beach we were at-they are all so different and unique. (Punta Uva is our all time favourite so far). Realizing it would soon be nightfall, we weren't going to make it to Manzanillo-oh well, we're on Caribbean time; relax...there's always manana
You should see if they sell the same blankets I brought back from Bolivia, they may be on the thinner side still compared to what you are used to but if you have two there awesome, plus they hold in the heat great. If not maybe you will have to make a trip on over there to get some. :) lol. Wish I still had mine, or could replace it.
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