June 16

Another beautiful day at Fuente Verde. Today I made pancakes for everyone with Gabe's (11 yr old) recipe. We planted mimosa trees, sunflowers (not the kind I'm used to), thai basil, tear of Job, sweet potatoes, and ornamental ginger. We pulled and moved invasive grasses. After lunch and showering (in the shower with ice cold water-I think the washer was interfering), I headed out with some of the gals to go to a yoga class. The studio was beautiful with the most amazing view of Manuel National Park, the class was good yet strenuous, the teacher kind, competent and loving. BTW-it was free, she never charges and it was 2.5 hours long.

During the class, the biggest rain that I've seen so far came. We had to wait before we could head home. WHen we did, the bridge was overflowing and the kids were excited to go to the river. I wouldn't let them swim with the abundance of water. THeir job today was to build tree forts as decorations. They were complete with a popsicle stick elevator, houses, and a gondola that connected their two trees. EThan and AAron ran away with this "job."

Ten of us, which is the our whole household right now, piled into the car. Believe it or not we all fit (w/out seatbelts). We headed for a pizza adventure at the Boob. It gets its name from the shape of the mountain its on. The house/restaurant looked like a Japanese temple on top of a mountain. We waited along time because they cook two pizzas at a time for the best pizza I've eaten in a long time--even in the states. The owner of the house, likes to golf so there were a couple of putting green that the boys enjoyed. The pizza was $14 (8000 colones), which is a lot by local standards but well worth it. Aaron was still hungry after our pizza and bought slices off of one of our housemates.

We laughed about stories everyone told and sang songs while Little Dave played guitar. Great day and night. tomorrow we go into the city, San Isidro, and hopefully, I'll be able to up load some pics.