Thanks to none of you, I found a new book to listen to. It’s called After and was written by a physician who has spent his career studying near death experiences. It’s pretty interesting. I saw a reference to it a while back in Discover Magazine and I have a friend who read it and …
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Boxing Day, words
To our northern friends, Happy Boxing day! The first I had ever heard of Boxing Day was on the T.V. Show M.A.S.H. a long while back. Feel free to share our blog with your friends and family, we could use the followers, especially if they get the app!! We slowly ramped up our activities after …
Books
I finished my latest audio book today and I need a new one. I’ve spent the last hour and a half or so looking for books that might be good with not much luck. I’d like to have a book that is engaging but not depressing. If anyone has read any good books lately, let …
Boxing Day Pictures
Merry Christmas from Emily
I hope you all had a good Christmas! This will be a short post since Bill already wrote about our day. Tamales are traditional Christmas food and the restaurant had tamales for breakfast so we ate some. I like tamales so I thought they were pretty good. Bill had never had them and said he …
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!! Hopefully everyone was on the nice list and Santa was good to you! For those of you who would like to recreate A pool day here at the Cochal hotel in Costa Rica, you should fill the tub with 80 degree water and then play this link https://youtu.be/mouA5vlWYmk on repeat. While I wouldn’t say the music …
Bill’s Christmas Eve in Costa Rica
Today we have taken it easy, it can be rough to keep going on adventures and swimming in the ocean! We took a little down time from all that. It’s been a very nice day here. We haven’t kept any schedule it’s just been whatever, with the exception of lunch. For lunch we wanted to …
Christmas Eve in Costa Rica
We learned today that most Costa Ricans celebrate Christmas Eve more than Christmas day. There have been some fireworks and Francie, our server, opened presents with her son who is 7 around noon today. He got a pirate Lego set, some transformers and some clothes. She said he was excited. He’s a big fan of …
Blogging
Welcome to today’s installment of the blog! Makes it seem like it will be exciting. Hopefully you all are doing well. Christmas is almost upon us. I’m guessing it will be a slow relaxing day here. We have to see if things are going to be open or not. The restaurant we had the snapper …
Rafting!
Hello All: Last night I wasn’t feeling all that well so I went to bed at 8:30 and left the blog to Bill. I felt much better today so I think the early night was good for me. I’m not planning to be up late tonight either. We’ve had a lot of activity and I’ve …
Traveling with Emily! 