So technically I should be back in the US right now however I am in really no hurry so I decided to postpone my flight to June. I just didn’t feel prepared to go back home yet and I found out the US will be playing Costa Rica in Costa Rica for world cup qualifiers on June 3rd. I probably won’t go to the stadium but it will be cool just to be in the country because I think it will be kind of a big deal. Also our construction has been delayed so much that I think if I stay till June I will actually see the end of it and be able to close out all of my management tasks and leave some kind of construction review for Habitat.
A few weeks ago was my Brincolandia party which like a lot of things here just cant be reproduced the same way in the United States. Like when I went to the roller coaster park here in Costa Rica there was nothing to see, only one roller coaster where you went upside down once and the rest were lik
e carnival games, go karts, merry go round etc. Well Brincolandia was like that, they didn’t even have a ball pit and they had one mini obstacle course, a slide and an area to jump around. I was bored after five minutes because that is how long it took to try all the stuff out. The crazy thing is ppl will pay $4/hr for their kid to go play on these inflatable slides, obstacle course, jumping area etc. This is crazy to think people would pay that much when it is nothing to see really. I’m thinking though that might be a good little business to have because ppl will pay that much and it wouldn’t take much to make a better Brincolandia with more slides and stuff to do. One of my Aunt’s was half serious about it because she has a covered area by her house and she was telling me that the inflatable stuff you have to bring from the US so she would need me to get her the stuff. Anyways the birthday party at Brincolandia was for another Aunt’s 6 year old daughter and they invited probably about 70 ppl. There was a lot of ppl and the craziest thing about the party was they would serve you food it seemed like every 20 min. It started at 1 and we had like a lunch at 230, then they brought bread at 3pm, then cake, then pizza and it wasn’t just a small serving but rather platefuls of food. To think all these kids jumping around and then eating every thirty minutes might not be a good idea but nobody puked as far as I know.
Besides that party things have been pretty quiet. Last Friday we had Labor Day here in Costa Rica so took advantage and went and visited all of my Alajuela and San Carlos friends. Nothing really going on with them however with one of the families I know real well in San Carlos they had a surprise like wedding vow renewal mass for one of their friends which was interesting. They have a little farm and a little covered area with a kitchen so they made food and decorated like a wedding reception and they invited a priest to come and say mass and afterwards they ate food and chatted. The priest was interesting because I had had him before for mass in another town in San Carlos and he is very strict about his mass and will give a good lecture and mass will be at least an hour, hour and a half. So really professional but he is like any other Costa Rican when he is not giving mass. He was asking me about where I was from and chatting it up with everyone else which was took me by surprise because he has an entirely different character when giving mass.
We just found that there are seven cases of swine flu in Costa Rica. They all are in quarantine here so it shouldn’t spread like crazy or anything but people are being pretty cautious. In San Ramón I saw some ppl wearing masks but nothing too serious. Last Sunday they showed a movie about a flu outbreak and they had specialists discuss the movie and the flu before and after the movie which was a little over the top because the movie had a much bigger plot line than just the flu. I don’t know what it was called in English but the flu gets out and then the mob gets involved stealing vaccines to cure their members before anyone else. There weren’t any mob members on their expert panel so they couldn’t really compare the movie completely to real life (unless there are some secret underground things going on with this flu which might be the case depending on your news source).
Next weekend I might be traveling to a friends little resort town that he lives in so that might be fun. I guess it has a swimming pool and a place to grill out so we might make a group and go check it out. After that I hit a birthday barrage with about 3 in one week. I have two in San Carlos the 23rd and 25th, then my maternal mother’s birthday on June 1st and I think there is one other birthday that falls in between there somewhere. Shortly after that it will be all over and I will for sure have to go to the US. No more dicking around as my mom might say. “Time to face the music and start paying off those pesky loans.” Love ya mom and Happy Mother’s Day from Costa Rica…
A few weeks ago was my Brincolandia party which like a lot of things here just cant be reproduced the same way in the United States. Like when I went to the roller coaster park here in Costa Rica there was nothing to see, only one roller coaster where you went upside down once and the rest were lik
e carnival games, go karts, merry go round etc. Well Brincolandia was like that, they didn’t even have a ball pit and they had one mini obstacle course, a slide and an area to jump around. I was bored after five minutes because that is how long it took to try all the stuff out. The crazy thing is ppl will pay $4/hr for their kid to go play on these inflatable slides, obstacle course, jumping area etc. This is crazy to think people would pay that much when it is nothing to see really. I’m thinking though that might be a good little business to have because ppl will pay that much and it wouldn’t take much to make a better Brincolandia with more slides and stuff to do. One of my Aunt’s was half serious about it because she has a covered area by her house and she was telling me that the inflatable stuff you have to bring from the US so she would need me to get her the stuff. Anyways the birthday party at Brincolandia was for another Aunt’s 6 year old daughter and they invited probably about 70 ppl. There was a lot of ppl and the craziest thing about the party was they would serve you food it seemed like every 20 min. It started at 1 and we had like a lunch at 230, then they brought bread at 3pm, then cake, then pizza and it wasn’t just a small serving but rather platefuls of food. To think all these kids jumping around and then eating every thirty minutes might not be a good idea but nobody puked as far as I know.Besides that party things have been pretty quiet. Last Friday we had Labor Day here in Costa Rica so took advantage and went and visited all of my Alajuela and San Carlos friends. Nothing really going on with them however with one of the families I know real well in San Carlos they had a surprise like wedding vow renewal mass for one of their friends which was interesting. They have a little farm and a little covered area with a kitchen so they made food and decorated like a wedding reception and they invited a priest to come and say mass and afterwards they ate food and chatted. The priest was interesting because I had had him before for mass in another town in San Carlos and he is very strict about his mass and will give a good lecture and mass will be at least an hour, hour and a half. So really professional but he is like any other Costa Rican when he is not giving mass. He was asking me about where I was from and chatting it up with everyone else which was took me by surprise because he has an entirely different character when giving mass.
We just found that there are seven cases of swine flu in Costa Rica. They all are in quarantine here so it shouldn’t spread like crazy or anything but people are being pretty cautious. In San Ramón I saw some ppl wearing masks but nothing too serious. Last Sunday they showed a movie about a flu outbreak and they had specialists discuss the movie and the flu before and after the movie which was a little over the top because the movie had a much bigger plot line than just the flu. I don’t know what it was called in English but the flu gets out and then the mob gets involved stealing vaccines to cure their members before anyone else. There weren’t any mob members on their expert panel so they couldn’t really compare the movie completely to real life (unless there are some secret underground things going on with this flu which might be the case depending on your news source).
Next weekend I might be traveling to a friends little resort town that he lives in so that might be fun. I guess it has a swimming pool and a place to grill out so we might make a group and go check it out. After that I hit a birthday barrage with about 3 in one week. I have two in San Carlos the 23rd and 25th, then my maternal mother’s birthday on June 1st and I think there is one other birthday that falls in between there somewhere. Shortly after that it will be all over and I will for sure have to go to the US. No more dicking around as my mom might say. “Time to face the music and start paying off those pesky loans.” Love ya mom and Happy Mother’s Day from Costa Rica…
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