Polly and Donna's Escape from the Frozen North

What a great surprise! In late January, my sister, Polly and one of my best friends, Donna hopped on a cheap charter and came for a week long visit to CR.

Our itinerary was very full and the week just flew by. They arrived on a Monday night to Liberia airport which is about an hour and a half from our house.

Here's a couple of pictures from Tuesday evening when we had sunset celebrations at our Samara lot. We then went onto a lovely dinner at our friends, the Shepherd's who live very close to our Samara lot.

On Wednesday we had girls day at Barragones beach. No sighting of Mel; it was an extremely quiet, private day on the beach.

Donna and I went shopping on the Thursday to Nicoya while Auntie Polly was the substitute gym teacher for the boys that day. This evening we joined our friends Mary and Fred and a host of other folks for a cocktail party at Las Palmeras. By now, the girls' heads are spinning from all the people they have met and their names!

On Friday, both Donna and Polly took the Wingnuts Canopy tour - see them getting ready to be harnessed up with their cute tour guide John. That evening we had friends over for cocktails and then had dinner at Shake Joe's on the beach; compliments of Donna.

John took Donna on the Saturday to Isla de Pajaros in Palo Verde National Park where she saw many species of birds. As they are migratory in nature, many of them will be gone by March so it was a great opportunity to see them. Our family went in December so here are a couple of pictures from that tour. Polly and I had ladies lunch with Sherry on Saturday and that evening we all went to Rancharlo's for dinner and to hear our friend, Franz play his saxophone.

Sunday, Donna and I went down to Carrillo beach for the morning and that evening we all went to our neighbours for the Superbowl party.

Monday morning was pack up time (you should have seen all of Donna's shopping - she's a real asset to our economy here!) and then off to the airport.

The week went by too fast but it was so terrific to see both of them even for a short while.