Making The Best.

Well, it is now clear to us that we are having a rainy vacation. Costa Rica is absolutely beautiful but everytime we say "let's go outside" it pours. Yesterday is didnt let up all day, only at night. So we have decided that event hough this is not how we imagined this trip, we will make the best of it.
So yesterday, we spent the morning at the beach, it was sprinkling most the time but the temp is a comfortable 75-85 degrees, and the ocean is warm so we are going out in the rain.
Its funny to us that the kids dont even seem to notice that it is raining. Its all the same to them.

We went out when the tide was low to the black lava-type rocks that are usually covered by water and found a blow fish and some other stuff hiding in the water inlets.

Tuesday evening the skies cleared up around dusk and we spent the entire evening on the beach finding a ton of hermit crabs. They were EVERYWHERE. We collected them in MAx's wagon and the kids were in heaven. There was a full moon that lit up the whole beach and we were the only ones out there. It was really cool. Then we went and swam in the pool until ed time. We were happy to make the best of the time that it isnt raining.

Later tonight or tomorrow I will post some pics and a VERY funny story that happened to us today when we tried to brave the rainiest day yet. We are having some rainy day adventures and making some funny memories. Just not the memories we had planned on making.

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Tropical Depression 16

Heard that the caribbean is being dumped on by some tropical storms? Well, so is the Pacific side of Costa Rica, while watching TV in our room today during nap time. We found out why we are experiencing a TON of rain.... even for the Wet season. We have Tropical Storm 16 headed our way. SO we can expect more of the same wetness.

On the positive side... we are on vacation all together. And we have got a few breaks in the rain to crab hunt, play on the beach and enjoy a little sun (more pics to come when I am in a better mood)
One the bad side... we didnt fly 8 hours to ANOTHER country to sit in our hotel room for large chunks of the day. While it pours!!
Oh well. At least it's a nice room that we have had to spend out time in. And that covered canopy deck may have been our saving grace this week....

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A Monsoon in Our Lagoon

Today we really got to see why everything is Costa Rica is so very green and lush. I woke up at 4 am this morning because it sounded like we had left the sliding glass door open in the Master bedroom. But when I checked our door and the kids door both were closed tightly, the rains was just coming down so hard, it sounded like a bathtub faucet outside our window. Luckily loud rain is peaceful sounding so we went back to sleep. But most of the day it has been absolutely dumping water. The kids have soaked through several outfits because the rain is so warm they want to be out playing in it. They LOVE it! We even took them down to to the beach during a clear part of the day then we literally saw the rain come across the water and pour on us. We knew there would be rain everyday, but usually it is just in the late afternoon. However today it has rained more than I have ever seen. It is beautiful.
But we are ready for it to dry up this afternoons so we can go out digging for shells, or go paddle boating in the bay.

Also this afternoon we were hanging out on our patio and saw this little guy with a few others swinging from tree to tree to our roof. The kids were loving it. Max was saying "monkey...monkey" long after they were gone.

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