Happy 37th birthday Jeff

Hello... NOTE:  this is not the lazy river or jungle cruise at Disneyland.  It is the river that runs next to the sloth sanctuary where we have checked in for the next two nights.

Tomorrow it is breakfast with Buttercup the sloth.  We won't be able to touch her but we can take a photo or two I hope.

Today's  BIG event.... 37 years ago today Rich and I anxiously waited for the arrival of our baby.  Thirty seven years ago you didn't know if you were having a boy or girl (mama insights made me think it would be a boy). Between 10 and 11am on August 15, we were blessed with a 9 lbs. 6 oz. baby boy we Named Jeffrey Wayne. He gets his middle name from his Dad and has since passed that middle name onto Hunter.  Today we celebrate Jeff's day in Puerto Viejo and by heading to the sloth sanctuary. It's very rainy here but compared to where Jeff was last year we are all happy. Last year on his birthday he was coming home from the hospital. It was after he had his gallbladder removed, was septic, and spent six days in the hospital. It was a very trying and miserable time for our families.  What a great way to celebrate in CR today, celebrating life and health.  

The latest.... Last night you would have thought you were sleeping on a military base practice range. There was so much rain and thunder the most we have experienced on this trip (although we are close to the beginning of the countries rainy season ) This was no mild Disneyland type of lighting and thunder!  At times the whole Bungalow would shake.  I wanted to be afraid and put on my scaredy-frightened pants, but I am pretty sure I got that all out of my system earlier on the trip.  I laid there last night and enjoyed the awesome show that mother nature was putting on at 3:30 in the morning. What you can do to entertain yourself during such a storm, is get up and go to the window, hold up your iPad and try doing a video of the night sky and shoreline-lightning crashing down on the beach.  Really I don't recommend this activity and I don't think you will find it as a suggestion in the tour books.

Here we are sloth land.  It has been Heathers dream to visit since high school,when she saw Jack Hanna do a show from here.  Currently listening to holler monikers in the trees, not a sound you would here in Irvine.  Enjoy everyone this is going to be fun. Hugs from the CR Hylands