Visit from Mom/Granny

Rainy season is really back in full swing here in Nosara. As I write, we are well into our 40th or so hour of rain, usually downpour though now a bit calmer. The Rio Nosara has risen into the home of a friend of ours, another creek has risen closing off the main road between our house and Nosara village, the Rio Montana has risen to block off any possibility of crossing it by car (though a motorbike or cuad can still get across a hanging bridge there). It is quite a thing, all this rain and, as with just about everything here, everyone takes it right in stride...

My mom (Becky) visited us for the 2nd time last week and we had a very nice visit. I met her up in San Jose and we spent a night at the very beautiful Xandari hotel. Here is a video (click on the link for YouTube...it wouldn't load on this site for me) of us hiking on some of the trails on the Xandari property and finding a nice waterfall. We wound up lounging at the spa and my mom making a feline friend.

The day following her arrival, she and I headed up the long and winding road that leads to the door of Poas Volcano, some 8200 feet above sea level. While the weather was fine down in San Jose, it was cold, foggy and spitting rain up at the crater, as the video below attests. Apparently, through the fog we might have seen a lake with water temperature of 104 degrees Farenheit in the crater below. But, we could barely see each other!

After Poas, we hopped a NatureAir flight out to Nosara and were picked up by Tara and the kids right after their school day. The rest of her visit consisted of some nice time with the kids, a couple beautiful sunsets, a fun dinner with our friends David & Katy and Olivier & Jane and a trip by my mom and I up to the now inaccessible (because of risen rivers) San Juanillo for lunch.

In a few minutes, I will head out to video some of the wetness of Nosara to post shortly. (though power is scheduled to be out tomorrow, and with it internet access so a blog will not be posted until probably Friday.

Pura vida, baby!