Missing another Wedding Anniversary

Well this last week I had to make amends and apologise to my wife again for going to miss my forthcoming Wedding Anniversary. I think i have missed 3 of the last 4 and will be missing the next one on the 16th of August. So we decided to take a chilly holiday to the swiss alps, I never told anyone and we just went off without a word and crossed town and up the mountains to the not so swiss town of Heredia and to the swiss style hotel, El Tirol,altitude 8000 Ft. it looks like it was built maybe 20-30 years ago by some swiss folks and they actually made a very nice job of it, the only problem of taking a swiss style holiday up there , it is cold, well actually fresh but after a week in the humidity of Costa Rica, it felt bloody freezing.

Swiss style Hotel El Tirol



We arrived in the afternoon to see the skies clearing after it being overcast all morning, we had brought all the binoculars and my digital SLR, so we went for a walk and I found the hummingbird feeding gardens, there were about 5 species of hummingbirds fighting like crazy about who would sit at the top table, so to speak, it was great and I spent at least 30 minutes watching them, then i was dragged away to go down a trail to find the river and the long walk around the area, we saw nothing in the woods as it was pretty late about 5pm and it was overcast again and we had gone maybe only 800 yards( Meters )and a huge thunderstorm broke out around us, it was pouring rain like crazy, as it does in the rainy season, I was miserable as i was brave and had gone out without a jacket, i was soaked to the skin, cold and feeling stupid for not putting on my rain jacket. We went back to the cabin at the hotel and jumped into bed all three of us, and watched to some TV and ate snacks we took with us, we had marshmallows, potato chips, corn chips with salsa, it was great,

Our Little Cabin



We got ready about 8 to go and have dinner in the hotel, but we were so full that we just drank beer and the little tinker had chicken nuggets, swiss style of course. We did relent after about an hour, we started feeling peckish as you do when you are drinking and I saw the desert menu and it had apple strudel on it, i had to have it and it was the best i have eaten in a long time, Jenny had the Crepe suzettes, which were fun as the waiter did the sauce in front of us on a trolley, the flaming alcohol thing, you know, the sauce was average but well worth the entertainment value. They also had live music, a saxaphone player, doing some classic jazz stuff but alos some crazy jazz stuff, then a guitar player who was only doing psanish stuff, i like it but in small doses, he grated on me after about an hour at which time he left, hurrah, but all in all while we sat in front of a log fire and drank beer and ate fancy food we had a fantatic time, even though we did get drowned in the rain, I leave Friday back to the land of beer and barbecues

Possibly the musicians ( Nah, i just downloaded it from the net)