We think you should name the new baby...

OH, Lo siento. it´s been a while, and I´m feelin´ my mom´s anxiety all the way in Southern Costa Rica. Seriously, though...we´re fine...we stayed at El Jardin until last weekend. Scott finished the kitchen counter project just in time for the arrival of a Medical team from the US. Our dear friends now have their hands full with organizing a bunch of Americans, so we´ve moved on to the beach! We spent a day in transit in San Isidro de General, and then three days at the Playa Dominical. it was absolutely beautiful! I´m really sorry we still can´t put pictures on here cause ya´ll would be jealous! Dominical is a really small surfer town. Just one little dirt road strip along the beach. But the waves are enormous, the water´s really warm and tropically, and the beach is velvety sand (very unlike the crabby, gooey beaches we saw in Washington...sorry Jeff, the tropics are prettier- and they don´t smell as bad)
Last night we stayed in a less touristy beach town- Uvita- very small, very pleasant. Then there was some confusion with the Lonely Planet explanations of where there are banks and such...what it boiled down to was that we had to get on a bus this morning with only about $5 worth of colones, and search for a bank. Then we missed our bus stop...Then we ended up 17km away from Panama (we´re in the town of Neily)...Then by the time we ate and found a place to stay tonight, the banks were all closed. So, we´ve decided that instead of trying to exchange all our money into colones...Why not just go to Panama?
Sounds like we´re flying by the seat of our pants? um...maybe a little. So... we´d appreciate your best wishes, prayers, energy channeling...as we attempt our first border crossing tomorrow. Should be fun.
But seriously...we´re finding it much easier (dispite all of our "mistakes")to get around now that we can use some basic spanish. It´s amazing how easy it is now to understand "The bank´s closed"!! We´re having a good time, and keeping in good spirits. I think we´ve got a little travel bug, now that we´re up and moving again. For now the plan is to keep moving, until we decide to stop. sound good?
Oh, and for all you who tend to worry, and are threatening to call the US embassy...Scott says that if we get kidnapped, you´ll know. Because they´ll call you looking for a ransom. (i.e. we´re afraid to make promises in case we can´t find a place with the internet -- please stop worrying, we are fine)
Well, we certainly did miss out on Halloween. we celebrated by taking a sunset stroll on the beach. Oh, and eating the best Thai food I´ve ever had. Seriously, I can´t explain how good it was. We looked into flights from San Jose to Thailand.

Kay, Love you all! and Happy November!

P.S. We think you should name the new baby Muey...but not anything to do with Guns n´Roses... (it was a dream I had...I can explain later)