Beach Vacation 2009

Hello Friends and Family,

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to share with your extended family, but since that has not been possible for the last few years, we have begun a new tradition: beach vacation! 

Since Thanksgiving is not a holiday in Latin America, it is a great time to visit the coast since most Costa Ricans travel to the beach at Christmastime.  We beat the holiday rush and enjoy the beaches in peace!

This year’s vacation started with a night at the Marriott near the San Jose airport visiting with a Pastor and his daughter from Ohio.  Pastor Bernie Dickson (who bought our van in August at the end of our home assignment) and his daughter Christy enjoyed a few days at a resort near the beach and spent the last night near the airport.  Since Christy works with Marriott, she gets some amazing deals on hotels and resorts and we enjoyed a night on the town with them. 

We talked, played Phase 10 cards, visited the gift shop and enjoyed a special desert before saying good night.  It is always fun to see friends from the USA when they visit Costa Rica.  Let us know when you will be here!!!

The next morning we were off to the beach – Manuel Antonio to be exact.  It is a National Park (about 25% of Costa Rica is protected park land) that only allows 800 visitors per day.  It has a number of beautiful beaches and we especially enjoyed the guided tour through the forest where we saw monkeys, sloths, birds, insects and other interesting creatures. Is that sloth not the ugliest thing you have ever seen!  We were literally a foot or two from it, which is very rare since they are only on the ground one time a week.

I will let the photos do the talking, but you can see we enjoyed our vacation.

 

Next week we will have lots to tell about the Seminary graduation and the upcoming Maximum Mission trip to Costa Rica North.  See you then!!!

The Webb Family