A week ago I housed sat for Jorge and Nona. They had to make their way to San Jose to file paperwork for Alonso’s citizenship for the states. So I made myself comfortable and kept house.
Monday night I decided it would be more fun to invite some people my way. Sabina, Sam, Glenn, Troy, Rebecca and myself all sat outside and had some drinks. Sabina and I drinking the fabulous boxed red wine and the boys drinking the good ole imperial.
I had gone next door and ordered some pasta for dinner. I ran into some fellow expats in the restaurant gave my hello and went back next door. A couple from LA live on my street and had some guests in town, one of them happened to join us later that evening in front of Willie’s. He was quite the entertainer, very funny and fun to be around!
After a while the boys moved on to Coco’s while Sabina and I stayed and had some girl time. We settled on joining the boys for only one more drink, which somehow turned into 2:30 in the morning? We couldn’t believe how fast the time had passed and quickly all returned to our homes for sleep.
It was a fun night all in all but the next morning came very quickly!! I will say that I think the wine helped me sleep in the new atmosphere. Especially down in Costa Rica the creepy crawly “things” freak me out at night. I panicked in the beginning of sleep and gradually gave in. It didn’t help that earlier that night when Jorge called to give and receive an update, told me not to worry that the noises were just bats, geckos oh yeah and rats!! But he was pretty sure the rat was dead… OOHH GeE good to know!!!
Day two of house sitting I had the morning off. We were all feeling a bit rough with the lack of sleep we had imposed on ourselves. I decided it was a glorious morning, had a cup of coffee (weird I drink coffee now!) and went to breakfast at Annette’s. I decided breakfast is to much for me. I need just a few light things in my stomach, a big meal is to hard for my body to adjust to.
Afterwards I grabbed my stuff and headed to the beach with Glenn and Sam. It was Glenn’s last day in town and we were sad he was leaving. We decided that we were going to celebrate that evening and go out to dinner one last time together.
Upon dinner time, Glenn was a no show… we were worried and called his house. They told us he was so ill he would not come to the phone. We went to grab some dinner anyway to realize we too were not feeling that well and called it an early night. I quickly talked to some friends and family from home and went to bed! We were nervous since apparently swine flu had started to go around in our area. In fact some of the schools closed for an extra week due to the impact of the swine flu!!
All in all house sitting wasn’t bad. It was however hard to live there and work there all in one. It seemed as though my days were endless and I couldn’t decipher what happened when and where! I was very happy when Jorge and Nona and of course baby Alonso returned!! I was very excited to spend the night in my little cabina!!
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