Sunday Celebration

It's Sunday and it felt like it. We didn't get up super early for some reason. It was gorgious out and I kept waiting for the rain to start. It never came. Jack went surfing and I cooked breakfast for us and after breakfast the girls and I rode our bikes to the beach. I had my camera all ready thinking that we'd be riding through the river, over the bridge, but the water had already receeded. Jack was walking back but didn't get to far before we ran into him. We all went to the beachtogether and the beach was packed. Sunday is family day in Costa Rica and people take full advantage of being with their families. It's great to see everyone's mood so full of joy and celebration. People were enjoying the sun and the clean ocean. When these rains come as hard as they did the past couple of days the ocean gets real dirty and there is mud and debris floating all over. The locals stay out of the water for fear of getting sick or picking up some wierd skin thing or whatever. We have decided to follow suit. The ocean was clean and blue today and everyone was celebrating the sun and the beautiful day. We came home to get some lunch and decided to ride, while Jack ran, to Panilla to pick up Jack's bike that Christopher worked on. We had a great ride and the girls didn't complain because they knew there would be ice cream in Panilla and we promised them some ice cream. The locals are starting to recognize Jack and when he was running with his entourage of girls with him people were waving and cheering and asking him, "how far today? Como lejos hoy?" We got to Panilla and Christopher, who's entire family grew up or lives in Panilla, was laughing at Jack and asking him if he ran the entire way. Everything is Spanish with sign language with us and it works well for us to understand. Christopher only charged Jack $2000 colones. That's $4 bucks folks. He probably worked on that bike for a couple of hours. We had some ice cream and rode further down the road for a beverage. Being Sunday, with world cup soccer on, everyone and their brother is out socializing. It's fun to see. We rode home and stopped at the store we went to yesterday for French bread. We were warmly welcomed by the store clerk who recognized us from yesterday and was doting over las ninas. She's a nice lady. We rode home and went straight to the beach again because it was still sunny. We had a great afternoon at the beach with a couple of hours of swimming and surfing. Lot's of locals were hanging out at Lola's and the couple who own the pot farm, not what you're thinking, were there with their huge McCaw. Jordan got to hold it and couldn't have been more psyched. Jack went up to them and asked them if they own the pot farm. They said yes and Jack told them the story of the day he rode by on his way to the lot. Sunny, that's the birds name, was out front and it's a straight away past their store. As Jack was approaching the pot farm he kept hearing someone say, "Hola", "Hola", so Jack slowed down thinking that is was a Tico trying to be nice and it was this huge bird saying hello to Jack instead of a Tico. Everytime we come back to the casita Rosa or Pancho say it too, like we are being greeted by someone. It's a nice feeling even if it is just a bird.
The pot farm is the name of the place these people sell huge clay pots and it's also a nursery with plants and trees and stuff like that.
Lola's was just a show today with the dogs, Lolita who's the pig swimming in the ocean, the huge bird on her owners shoulder, locals galore getting drunk celebrating whatever, and sun. Lola's is closed on Monday's and I'm sure after today they are ready for a day off. We opted to stay clear of it all and spent our time down the beach by the dead tree and enjoy our family. It was nice.
We ended the day eating a fabulous dinner if Serloin, garlic bread, corn and potatoes. The day we went to the meat market with Bart and Liz, Jack and I picked up 2 serloin steaks for later. Tonight was later and we surprised the girls with a wonderful dinner. They thought they were getting spaghatti, again. It was so yummy and we are all stuffed. Jack and the girls are playing cards while I am now tired and ready for bed. Goodnight all.