Marsha and Ken Come to Visit

Marsha and Ken came to visit us in Costa Rica this past weekend (our first visitors!). We spent the first night at our house and took them to our favoriate Italian restaurant D'Bartolo's. On Friday morning, they were real troopers trudging around town with us as we looked for the US Embassy to notarize the closing documents for our loft in Denver. (It's sold!)

Indiana Jones Bridge

House sold, we left for the beach and encountered more than one bridge that was straight out of the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland. No sides to the bridge, planks moving back and forth as you go over them. And then we watched a semi cross!

We arrived in Manuel Antonio and checked into the famous Hotel Si Como No. It's an amazing hotel built right into the rain forest on the side of a mountain. We had dinner at the famous El Avion which is a restaurant built out of the plane that started the Iran-Contra Affair when it crash landed in Nicarauga. It was sold, taken apart, hauled to Manuel Antonio on a train, and reassembled as the restaurant.

During the day, we relaxed on the beach and watched USA eeek out a 1-1 tie with Italy in the World Cup at the place we had lunch. Good news is everyone in the bar was cheering for the US--Costa Ricans love Americans.

The second night, we had a fabulous dinner at our hotel's restaurant and hit the casino in town. Kerri and I were joking around with a $1 bill that Marsha had handed us and in 3 minutes turned it into $45. Then we called it a night. I know--high rollers.

On our last day, we laid by the hotel pool and hit the road to head back to Santa Ana (where we live) in the early afternoon.

(If you look close in the photos, you'll see I've got about 4 days of a beard going. A part of my electric razor broke. They don't carry the part in Costa Rica. I had to order it from the US. I waited two weeks. And didn't shave the whole time. Fun.)

View from Our Room	Scott at Breakfast
Dinner at El Avion	Balcony Sunset
Iquana Sunbathing	Dinner at Si Como No