we rose at the crack of dawn again but no work today! we all piled in the little truck (literally 4 of us in the back it's covered with a metal cage and tarp kinda crazy...) and drove to la frontera. the final frontier as you cross into coasta rica! we stayed at an amzing huge pool with three different pools and a 20 ft waterslide. it's arelis' birthday 35. she's guilermo's wife and they are just wonderful! we partied and swam and ate ceviche and huge shrimp and had a yard of beer thats 4ft tall! There are only two types of beer here Atlas and Panama and they're only 4% so the locals don't get too crazy and are sure to go to work the next day. We were technically still in Panama but could walk across the street to the super (market) or the little stores and be in costa rica. There they have two different types of beer Imperial and something else and they're 5% because the Costa Ricans like to get crazy! HaHa!
We tried to find bicycles or at least parts to construct bikes but they we sooo expensive! Damn shoulda brought our bikes even though it woulda been a pain in the ass! $450 just for a frame and whole bikes starting at $650- I'm talking crappy chinese mountain bikes to boot!
We went for lunch to a family friend's house in costa rica which is entirely made of wood and open- beautiful! they have their own pigs, cows and chickens, wild iguanas and a pet crocodile. Chichi, kent's prima, is gifting us a baby cow to use for milk and will reclaim it when it's older to mate. I don't really want a cow, especially for beef but milk and dung will be cool. Good for the chickens! after rice, beans and freshly slaughtered and roasted beef we ate the pie i made for arelis' bday of salsamoras and avenas (oats, i love it my name is everywhere). really more of a crisp- with fresh vanilla ice cream....mmmmmm.
sunday is the big presidential election between balbina (one of noriega's old girlfriends) and martinelli. they do it on sunday so everyone has the day off and will vote, they have very supersticious beliefs that if they dont vote something very bad will happen. and they dont sell any liquor or beer from friday afternoon through monday at noon so the people wont get too drunk on their holiday and not vote. needless to say thursday everyone was buying cases and cases...haha. kent called it prohibition!
we laid low because everyone gets so crazy- you think america has bad bipartisan politics- you should see this! both candidtates are pretty equally corrupt and environmental issues are at the forefront. one huge issue in this area is big payoffs by americans in boquete (little america) to build a road through the dense international park La Amistad to Volcan to cut their drive from one hour to 20 min. very sad let's hope the new president shuts this down! there are a suprising amount of expats and retirees here and they're not the cream of america's crop- that's for sure!
we're gonna lay low and i plan on making beet (remolacha) soup! pink pink you stink!
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