Still Sick

The last blog update had us meeting our friends on the beach for a cookout.  By the time our friends arrived, the winds had picked up and it started to rain.  So much for the cookout on the beach.

It was pretty funny though at one point.  Now bare in mind, the temps were still 25-27 (80-84) and the wind was actually really refreshing.  One of the young girls with our group, stood up, wrapped her arms around herself, and declared that she was freezing!  I thought, sweetheart, you don’t have a clue what freezing is.

I wasn’t feeling the greatest at this point; so we headed home.  I won’t go into details, but by Sunday I was having dry heaves and pretty much felt like crap. 

Mike wasn’t feeling much better and at first we thought it was something that we ate.  A few days later, we thought maybe we had picked up a virus or something.

We stayed pretty close to the condo for the next few days; but finally on the Saturday of the Easter weekend, we headed downtown. 

There were 1000’s of people walking the streets of downtown.  Thought the week of Christmas was busy, but nothing compared to this weekend.  We stopped and said hello to a few of our friends; had a burger at Papas and then headed to the beach.

A few weeks before, you could have counted the people on the beach; a huge contrast to the amount of people out this day.  The tide was also in, which made the beach even smaller.  It seemed like the majority of the people were teenagers to late 20’s. 

People playing games, having cookouts, surfing, playing in the waves.  Every direction you looked, there were people… and lots of them.  I personally prefer it when the beach is almost empty.

Still feeling crummy, we headed off to the clinic this past Tuesday and by Thursday afternoon, it was confirmed that we both picked up a parasite.  Great!  We started the 10 days of medication last night; and with any luck, we’ll start to feel better sooner than later. 

When we got home on Tuesday from the clinic, we had a tucan land on a branch right off the balcony.  It was pretty cool.  And we even got a picture of it.  

As a result of our being sick, we’re going to stay in the condo for an extra 3 nights.  We’ll hopefully still have a chance to go to Arenal Volcano for the weekend, before heading home on Tuesday.


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