It's not because I have a "Bah-hum-bug" spirit that I have not posted lately. We've just been so busy with family the last week. Our daughter, Danielle, and our son-in-law, Brad, arrived from N.C. last Saturday and we've been enjoying having everyone together for the holiday here in Costa Rica! Today, since there was a Christmas Eve service on Thursday night, the Pastor decided not to have church today (a little different for us) and we took a leisurely drive through the countryside of Costa Rica. For Brad it seemed like a little bit of a "hair-raising" experience since it is very mountainous here and there are virtually no guard rails! I'm wondering if Ken pulling as close to the edge of the road with the "end of the earth" drop offs might have something to do with Brad's anxiety! There is never a dull moment when we are together as a family...that's for sure. Like my "Webble People" impersonation yesterday as I rolled down a flight of stairs at a pizzeria. Brad says I should explain the whole story, however, some details are better left to the imagination and suffice it to say, even the security guard outside the pizzeria had a good laugh, and to be honest, we all had to sit outside a few minutes after my triumphant recovery because we were all laughing so hard we had tears coming down our faces! I am, however, very thankful that I was not seriously injured in the fall! (I can only imagine my family back home roaring over this entry). Other highlights of our first week of vacation have been just plain relaxing and catching up as a family, renting videos (I finally got to see "Julie and Julia" though I was missing seeing this with my older brother, Peter, since we share a common link of being Julia Childs fans and watching her show together), before Christmas shopping together, after Christmas shopping together only to find the biggest "bargain" of the day to be Oreo cookies at 60 cents a package (we "invested" in 12 packages), taking naps, baking and of course, eating Christmas cookies, a big Christmas breakfast, a big turkey dinner on Christmas Day and homemade lasagna today! We took down our artifical Christmas tree! Seems our cat is quite talented at removing and breaking the branches and our tree was growing shorter each day from the bottom, up. No big deal if our tree remained inside our house, but since it was out on the front porch we decided against public humiliation and took it down a tad bit early this year as Heather noted, "Christmas Day...that's a first"!
Well, just wanted to take a moment and "update" the blog and wish all of you, a very Merry, Belated Christmas!
Stay tuned for more disastrous updates and some photo's, yes, we had Danielle and Brad buy us a camera and bring it with them from the States! An Oreo, anyone?
1 comment:
I'm in for an Oreo...!!
Post a Comment