Que tal muchachos??? Well today is a big day for us, as we are starting our Baby Watch… I know a large contingent of my faithful readers care nothing about surfing, largely don’t like culture, and think my writing is poor, and those of you I thank you for sticking in there, and promise it has all been worth it. For you folks that don’t know me, who only care about surfing, and still don’t like culture… Deal with it… Team Antonson is on lockdown preparing for Peanut Antonson.

I do a surf report on a daily basis, and had a dream the other night in which I was updating the surf report, but it was really a “baby report.” I thought it was a good idea, so Baby Watch will include a daily baby report, giving detailed relevant information such as belly girth, recent karate moves, momma’s mood swings, and doctors thoughts…

Here it goes:

Baby Watch Day #1.

Overall Conditions: Peanut is still inside. I believe that she is growing on a daily basis. The due date remains Dec. 21st, although, Erik is consistently having discussions with peanut about the importance of not being late, and we are shooting to go into labour on the 19th. Sarah is on board with this. Our next doctor visit is on Tuesday, we are heading to San Jose on Monday morning… At this point I will let Doc know about the 19th also.

Belly Girth: Large.


Recent Karate Moves: Peanut is learning a new move lately that is more of a belly push, this move is easy to distinguish as the belly is not kicked, but pushed out up to 2 inches. Sometimes Sarah tells me this is a combo move coupled with a bladder punch or push, depending on the mood of peanut and proximity of a bathroom for Sarah.

Momma’s recent mood swings: Understandably, Sarah has been pretty bummed for the past day, but Peanut seems to cheer her up. Thor did some momma cuddling today also and licked some tears.

Baby reports will be coming on a per blog basis from this point forward.

So on to Thanksgiving in Paradise, Flashdance and Dixon being in town and the swamp to desert change…

I have spent a lot of time in Costa, and I have to admit that 85% of it has been in the rainy season. It is the low season here for tourists, and waves, and I love it. But all my bros in Nosara keep telling me that I will love the dry season more. They keep telling me about all day offshores and cool evening breezes. Well, last week we were about as far from feeling like the dry season was upon us as we could have been. I believe that we had rain, solid rain, in 7 of 9 days going into this week. I read the weather last Saturday, and saw that the wind was forecast to go hard offshore and started hearing folks talking about the Guanacaste winds. I didn’t know what to make of it, and didn’t pay it much mind, and then was abruptly waken on Monday night to 30knt winds with gusts pushing 50knts. It was a gnarly night and in the morning we were without power, and water and trees were down everywhere. Usually the ground will dry out some before the winds blow and it will harden up some. Well this year, Monday it is raining, Tuesday it is blowing and it created havoc! Ice, pronounced e-say, the power company had power back that day I was cold surfing on Tuesday, wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt to dinner, and didn’t sweat a drop. It is amazing how quickly the seasons changed. A week later isn’t a puddle in Nosara, not a cloud in the sky, or a choppy wave all day. Paradise just got better!

Dennis and Dixon’s trip was so fun! It makes me miss having a large group of super close friends nearby. I won’t tell all of the stories, because I just don’t have time to write them all, but I will mention that Dennis earned himself a new nickname to go along with Lil’ Den Den, Stinky and Monkey Boy… and its: Flashdance! Flashdance was earned by dancing on a bar to impress our friend Diana.

Here is a pic of Lil Den conducting his own Imperial vs. Pilsen taste test... Imperial won, and was then beaten by dirty sock water. (Dennis is an actor, big time in Cali, check out his imdb page at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1517726/



Thanksgiving was also super fun here, even though we really missed being home (maybe the first time that I have…). I will let the pic do the talking.



Late, E.