Yo... folks. No baby yet... but the winds are back.

Sarah and I have gotten quite friendly with our pack of monkeys. It seems that they walk the trees back and forth from near where Andrew lives to the beach about every other day. They pretty much all look alike, so it is tough to identify with one, follow one around. There are about 5 mom/daughter pairs, so we can spot them, but the one guy that sticks out is Old One Arm. (I am not being mean with this name, I have lots names for my pups... Old Bones, Old Grumpy Bones, Mack Attack, Ol' One Ear...). Old One Arm, is missing the lower portion of his left arm, but it doesn't seem to slow him down any. He has the elbow, so he actually hooks that around branches. Well, the wind started blowing yesterday, last night it was howling. This morning I went to work Thor and Sarah had a cool encounter. She was sitting on the hammock (a big ol' family hammock she got for her birthday) and Old One Arm comes running by! We are guessing he got blown out of a tree, and was trying to get back to his pack. Well, Old Bones, our pup Sandy saw him, and started giving chase. Old One Arm got away and Old Bones barked at the tree for a while, and Sarah snapped some photos... Just a normal morning in Costa.


Ok, so baby stuff... The baby has been in perfect position for the last two weeks, but we had a scare last night. We could feel her hiccups up high on Sarah's belly, so we thought she rotated. But, it turns out, that she hiccups with her butt too.

Waves are flat right now... but we have a big swell on the way for the weekend.

And here is a word of advice to leave you with... If you can't swim, DON'T. Thank goodness for my bud Kimbo the other night, as some folks were playing soccer and decided to go for a swim. Four of them didn't swim, and I guess they didn't float either, and got stuck in the rip and yanked way, way out. Kimbo is/was a lifegaurd in the states, and got out there and helped the one about to die, and some fishermen grabbed their panga and rescued the rest. Everyone survived.

Late. E.