Who wouldn't love that mug...

Well, Sarah's folks just left, so were kind of bummed today. For the last month we have had family around, and it has been super fun... but my momma is coming back on the 2nd of next month so we have that to look forward to.

In other news, I touched on this in the surf report, but we hit up Ostional two nights ago for the Arribada, and that was killer. Folks had told me that there were a lot of turtles and I have seen the eggs on the beach following an arribada, but there are a LOT of turtles. We showed up at 7, and the folks are super nice, it is 7 bucks a person for a little tour, you can't take a flash light or anything, and the guides have flash lights that only show the red light, which doesn't effect the turtes. The tour guides only spoke spanish, so I only caught about 30% of the nuts and bolts of the turtles operation. But basically they come in around the 3/4 moon and lay their eggs. They come for about 3 nights, so the first nights eggs are usually dug up on the second night. There were still little turtles running around on the beach from the last arribada, so you had to drag your feet. The turtles are on a mission and don't seem to care one way or another if you are on the beach or even in their way, as I had two turtles run into my feet on the way back to the beach.

While we were out there, Kemper included, our bud Nick said something pretty funny... He said, "Damn, Kemper's only 12 days old and she's already done more killer stuff than a bunch of my friends back home." Which is pretty true. She was born in Costa in San Jose, made the trip back to Nosara, has been surfing, gone to arribada, eaten at some of the best restaurants in town and regularly rides on a Dutch Shephards back...

later on. E