November 24, 2008 San Jose Costa Rica

Wow we are doing so many things in a day here that this might be a big post! We went to Museo de Oro with mi amiga Ale her 2 yr old son Roberto and her 3 month old daughter Ana Maria - yup the kids came along too and Roberto loved it, riding on Ricardo's shoulders most of the way. The Museum is very good and we also took a brief tour of the currency display also which was very interesting. 

We had a great lunch with Ale's family on Saturday Ricardo and I could barely breathe after the delicious home cooked meal. It had been awhile since we've had home cooking and we definitely took the opportunity to over indulge! 

The next day we headed to the artisan area of Sarchi where we saw some amazing brightly painted art work on traditional ox carts, went to the workshops of the builders and had an 

amazing seafood lunch all before talking my husband into buying a beautiful wooden rocking chair?!?! How we are going to manage with it in the van remains to be seen we're thinking about strapping it to the top of the van and offering some sort of extreme adventure tour - any takers? 

Today we got to tour a coffee plantation which included a theatrical component and I got a free gift of a traditional hat for volunteering to learn how to "cup" a coffee! So far we are really enjoying Costa Rica the weather determines a lot of our plans last minute but there is no shortage of things to occupy your time with here. Our plans are to head out to the coast for a few days of sun and surf and hopefully the weather improves so we can take in a volcano and some tree top adventures in this tropical rainforest! That's it for now and a big thanks to all the people who are commenting it really is very nice to hear from you and to know someone is reading this.