On to Zancudo my new home...

Traveling with the parents is definitely a lot different than what I've been experiencing so far. We spent the first few days in the city getting supplies for my parents house and they bought a car as well. I am not a fan of the city at all and running errands like that made me dislike it even more! We went to places that were exactly like Costco and Home Depot except everything was in Spanish. It was an exhausting few days so we were all ready to leave for Zancudo by the weekend. Oh and Chris showed up at the hotel early in the week as well so the whole family was together to drive down to Zancudo.

So on Friday we were off with plans to get to Zancudo late that afternoon. But you know things never go as planned. We were about two hours outside of San Jose when the clutch on the car went out. We were able to turn around and make to a rest stop of sorts. Dad called the car place and they sent someone out to try and fix the car. We were stuck there for over two hours waiting. When they got there they were able to fixt he clutch but then a bunch of smoke started coming out of the tail pipe of the car. The final decision was for us to swap cars so that the busted car could be taken back to the shop and we could continue on to Zancudo. Only in Central America. We didn't have enough time to make it all the way to Zancudo that day so we stayed the night in San Isidro and took off the next morning to finish the trip. Of course we weren't able to make it without a few hitches but we did make it!

Zancudo is beautiful. It is exactly what my parents would want in a place to get away. The town itself is made up of one dirt road. As you are headed into town you pass by a few houses, stores and cabinas to stay in. Everything is very spread out. The center of town doesn't get that condensed either. My parents house is about halfway between the start of town and the end of the road. The house itself is incredible. We are all upstairs for now but I move downstairs next weekend. The ocean is a hop, skip, and a jump away and there is no one on the beach. I've been entertaining myself by hanging out with the fam, reading, swimming, exploring the beach and town, studying spanish, writing. Basically relaxing and doing whatever comes to mind. There have been a few ups and downs trying to get the house put together but for the most part things are excellent and I am looking forward to a few weeks of hanging out before I have to return to reality.

Oh and just so you know we don't have internet at the house. We thought that we would be we can't get a signal here. We are trying to get someone to come to fix it but everything here happens on Tico time so I'm not expecting anything soon. I am actually writing all of these blogs in word and saving them to the computer with the intentions of copying them over to my blog when we get a chance to go to a resturant with wifi. Which most of them are closing for the season so I don't know what's going to happen with keeping in touch for the next few weeks.