Who let the dogs out

Four of the six dogs at the Mango Tree. The two larger dogs spend a lot of time in our Villa, and the four small dogs are all related. They belong to Rosemary or rather she belongs to them.

New species discovered in Costa Rica

A new fish, the Viagra, was recently discovered in Costa Rican waters. It is fairly expensive, but lasts a long time and seems to be the fish of choice of older male tourists. It is now on the menu at better restaurants and senior centers through out the country. Rumor has it, it will soon be exported to the US.

Fourteen and counting

We celebrated our 14th anniversary at the Mango Tree Spa, the owner Rosemary, made us dinner and it was wonderful, we have become good friends. It has been so restful that Simon is thinking of staying here and sending me home to do the packing and moving and finding a house. As soon as we return home we are moving to North Carolina, in fact we don't really have a home to return to as we are renters for the next month. This has been a wonderful respite from life, or rather the stressors of life. Simon and I are hoping we have many more years as good as the last 14 have been.

Strange creatures and beautiful sunsets of Costa Rica

The sunset tonight was amazing, and so was the cricket or locust or whatever that was on our balcony. It was bright green in color with a 2-3" body and 4-5" with legs.
The sunset was particulary beautiful because there were fires in the valley, the farmers were burning their fields. We spent the day reading, at the pool, eating and drinking wine, pretty much a perfect day.

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A walk on the wild side

Accompanied by guides with machettes, we made our way up the treacherous river after first descending from a perilous peak. We had to navigate around giant bolders and forde deep pools and transverse mighty falls, but we made it we survived, and a good time was had by all.

A change in Motif

Rosemary, owner of Mango Tree Spa, decided the pool area needed a change in Motif, from a Baccus/Inca influenced to a Chinese, complete with dragon and pheonix. She designed and painted the area in 5 days.