The Fun Continues

These past few days have been fun filled.  We’ve had lots of parties, dinners, swims and oh yeah… an earthquake.

On Monday morning around 5:00 am the bed started shaking, followed shortly by cups/plates rattling.  Within a few seconds all of us were up.  Apparently the quake happened about an hour south of us; 15 miles off shore.

It was a 6.0 and as far as we know, there wasn’t any damage done.  And all of us were fine.  But talk about an exciting way to start the day.

On Monday night the 3 of us headed over to Papas & Burgers and played some good old fashioned Texas Hold ‘Em Poker.  There were about 18 people in total and I tripled my money!  Bought in for $4.00 and cashed out $12.00.  Mike and Victoria didn’t do so well; but I think we still came out ahead.

I ended up taking over the dealing (I know what a surprise!) and wowed and bedazzled all the other players with my poker dealing skills.  I’m in my element when I have a deck of cards in my hands.  Even tried to convinced a few of the other players that I was actually born with a deck of cards in my hands.  Some of them were a little drunk, so I may have succeeded.

We’ve been to the beach a few times; and Mike and Victoria have spent lots of time playing in the waves.  The waves here aren’t near as high or big as in Hermossa; so you don’t get tossed around quite so much.

We’ve also had lots of nights sitting around Phil’s pool with the Canadian Crew.  Even got together for their last night (which was last night) and went to Jaco Taco for dinner.  It was a lot of fun, the food was great; and Phil treated all of us.. Thanks again Phil!

Today we saw them off and have already made some plans to meet up in the Spring when we get home.

My bike had another flat tire this past week; and we have now bought tube #3, a different brand this time; and hopefully it’ll last.  Mike has become an expert in changing flat tires.  He’s also really really glad that’s it’s the front tire and not the back.

And as of today; Phil has lent Victoria one of his bikes to use for the rest of her time here.  She’ll have a much better chance of seeing all of Jaco this way.

A few days after the Canadian Crew showed up, Mike wearing his Tilley hat, looked over the wall to say hi.  When Paula looked up; she instantly was reminded of "Wilson" from the TV show Home Improvement.  His character was famous for not having the lower part of his face shown.  Ever since then, we have unofficially become "the Wilson's".  And Victoria is now "Miss Wilson".

So today, before we went over to say our goodbyes, Paula took a few pictures of us, being "the Wilson's".

And not sure how this happened; but I totally forgot to mention it in the last blog or post pictures.  But almost 2 weeks ago the bikers started arriving in Jaco for the weekend. 

Just a few showed up on Friday night and some booths were up and ready for business.  On Saturday morning, there were upwards of 1000 bikes in Jaco. 

Most of the bikes were parked around the park; which is just in front of our condo complex.  We spent a few hours wandering around and taking pictures.  At one point, I was standing on the side of the road; and about a 100 bikes or so passed.  I could feel the rumblings in my chest and the smell of gas.  It was pretty exhilarating.


Tonight, Phil is coming over for dinner and the 4 of us are going to play some euchre.  After a game or 2 maybe we'll teach them pepper, which is "the grown up" version of euchre and much more of a game.

The plan for tomorrow is to be up and out the door by 6:00 am.  We’re heading to Manuel Antonio for the day; hope the monkeys are out.

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