Tatiana, Betty, Lorraina, Nora, Carlos, Kay....Where are Marco and Larry? We are at the fruit juice stand in Tamarrendo Beach, Costa Rica taking a break from shopping for Lorraina's Condo.
Day 5 Saturday, February 19
We started our morning at 8:00 by taking a walk to the poolside, jacuzzi, and hotel. It was very hot in the sunshine and pleasant in the shade. We noticed a very large lizard running in the foliage about a foot long....much larger than our little Virginia critters. The view of the Pacfic Ocean was beautiful with many boats anchored in the cove of Hermosa Beach. After climbing the stairs up the hill to our condo, we had breakfast of sliced ham, salami, cheese, toast, tomatoes, strawberries, papaya, pineapple, watermelon, and Lorraina introduced us to Fruita Pan or fruit bread....lighter variety of fruit cake. Although dad and I do not care for fruit cake, we enjoyed this lighter version.
We loaded the cars and headed for Tamarindo Beach around 10:30. The area looked very dry and brown. We passed fields of cantaloupe, squash, and sugar cane as well as horses and Brahma cows. On the way to our new home, we stopped to see four homes that Lorraina may be interested in purchasing. Three condos had marvelous views of the ocean and one had a view of a nice garden. Two condos were purched high on a hill looking at Flamingo Beach. The third condo was on a a resort or country club of 3000 acres that had golf, endless swimming pool at the beach, horseback riding and a future bull fighting arena. The last was on Taramundo Beach where you could easliy access the beach in a minute or two. They all ranged in price from $450,000 to $850,000. All were very, very nice and Loraina will come on another weekend to show her husband and make a final decision. He was working in China for the month, but would be back home in a couple of weeks. They were looking for a place that their three sons would enjoy with them on holidays.
We had lunch on the Tamarindo Beach around 3:30. Dad had chicken and rice and I had shrimp and rice. It was filling. While sitting at a table under some trees right on the beach, an igauna scurried up a tree. Somebody in our group was so hungry they said," I'll have iguana for lunch." The restaurant was a seafood place and didn't have iguana on the menu. Lorraina said, "Iguana is very tasty....a lot like chicken."
We finally arrived at the Oaks where our condo is on the third floor. Tatianna and Marco have two condos that are across the hall from each other. Between them is a nice area to sit out and enjoy the night breezes....and we did just that after carring everything up three flights of stairs for the eight of us. A nice gentle breeze whipped over the outside patio and we all just sat and talked as Dad and I tried to learn a few more Espanola words.
We loaded up to go to town for pizza under the stars. The place was packed with lots of Americans and Canadians. We were lucky to find a table and order three Costa Rican style pizzas and a variety of fruit juices that were delicious....strawberry, tangerine, and Guanabana, something I have never heard of but was very tastey. Carlos tells us that it is a Costa Rican fruit that you mix it with either water or milk. We had it with water. Tasty. We stopped at an ice cream place. Several of us had chocolate, vanilla and peanut. They learned that we call that Tin Roof.
We all crawled up the three flights of stairs at 11:30 and said "Buenas noches"....good night. It was a good day and the bed was looking "muy bueno" (very good) to us all.
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