Jaco

After a week at daycare with Margie, I was ready to hit the beach this past weekend and take advantage of the beautiful weather. Chasing around 20-odd kids between ages 1-5, while fun, is draining! I spent the week cleaning buggers, persuading children to nap with backrubs, and - best of all - plucking lice out of kids hair. Yep. Unfortunately, the daycare has had a couple outbreaks of lice this year. Margie is now an expert at prevention and at combing through hair, and I learned too by going through her hair earlier in the fall. Don't worry about us; we take all the appropriate measures to keep those little guys from getting anywhere near us, but my heart breaks for the kids who aren't appropriately cared for at home. A few come to daycare without being bathed or in dirty clothes.   

After work on Friday, we met up with our new gringo friends, a group of students teachers who just moved into our neighborhood. We boarded a 5pm bus for the beach, and spent Friday and Saturday nights in Jaco. Jaco is a pretty touristy beach, and we stayed in a really cool hostel full of backpackers from all over the world. We enjoyed some awesome food, beautiful sunshine, and a very warm ocean. In fact, the water was so warm and the sun so strong it hardly felt refreshing! Best part? We found an express bus that gets there in an hour and a half (instead of 3) so we might go back on Saturday!   

Margie and I camped out ALL day on the beach until the sun went down

sunset!