Back Home and Alive in The Garden of Eden

Well it is nearly 2 weeks since i left the miserable desert of Qatar and as soon as i got home i was forced, quite easily, to go to the beach on the Caribbean side of the country, we went to a newly refurbished hotel, in the tiny town of Cahuita. It was a typical type of place with terminte damage to all the woodwork, lots of holes in the roofs especially, there was a nice pool and a raving gay waiter serving us with food drinks and amusing comments. We had the kids with us for this trip and the little girl was learning to swim and within 5 days was doing an impressive attempt at breast stroke and could swim better under water than on the top,

We went to a few more places along the coast and went to a small reserve where we there were a load of howler monkeys obviously fighting amongst themselves, the funniest thing was the enormous swinging scrotum that was brilliant white in contrast to the black/brown body, i was laughing so hard at that everyone else was wondering what i had been smoking. The hotel was empty apart from a couple of travellers, who were on a love holiday, they had met in another resort and met quietly in this hotel and ended up staying in the same room. Actually two very nice people the guy from Italy and the girl from Sweden, she did have heavy thighs though.



I am now back in San Jose and doing the normal things a normal perrson normally does, like shopping and cleaning pots and getting the car sorted, but i am seeing an old buddy from the USA who is also down here on holiday and we are getting beer and some food tomorrow night, so we can share the good old days and things to come, i am arranging my interview for a job in Yemen and it is now going to be in April, they seem to be very keen as Yemen is not at the top of everyones list, plus it does get very hot but that could mean more money. Maybe going to the south for the weekend to see the relatives and do some more bird watching, the birds here are fantastic still, i am seeing more new species every time I go out. I saw a small bird of prey called the Double tooth Hawk, very pretty and lives amongst the trees like a wren, must eat the lizards. Off to Florida for a wedding this March end to another old buddy from the USA, just booked my hotel, and it is the cheaapest i could find, Motel 8, he thought i was joking when i told him i would be in the cheapest place, it has a pool and we get breakfast also, $60 a night and that is more than i would like to pay, the hotel in Costa Rica was $25 a night, but at least i get to go to Walmart again to stock up on more white socks and electronic toys.