I'm back, Kinda

I am so sorry. I know some of you have been checking in to see if I have posted. I have been a little preoccupied. I have been ridiculously swamped trying to pull off my February issue of Alive! and I was perilously close to slitting my wrists with the keyboard at one point. But it is up and although there is a ton of work to do on it still I am taking a break from that place, kinda. It is a little bit of an obsession.


Somewhere, in the middle of January, Tom wisked me off to Costa Rica. It seems like it may have been a dream. We came back to such massive workloads that it was easy to forget that for hours at a time I had almost no thought in my head except, "look at how gorgeous the ocean is today."

We had a very relaxing visit, barring my sprained ankle and the incessant mosquito bites. Everyone wants to know what we did and although we did have some serious play time, we spent a lot of time lying by the pool or playing in the ocean. We rested. Because we needed it and we knew we had a few hectic months ahead where there would be little or no rest and very little time together.

But here are a few pics of our visit.




I loved the thrill of the canopy ride but this wall freaked me out a tad.

The resort

I know you are wondering about the pic of the John but Tom and I thought it was hilarious that there was this pic of the brahma bull greeting us in the bathroom every day. These white cows are everywhere in Costa Rica. I just didn't expect to have one staring at me in the bathroom.

My first zip.

One day we had an all out adventure that included zip lines, rock climbing, horseback riding, a sprained ankle, a trip down the rapids in an inner tube and a mud spa treatment at the hot springs (the mud spa was a little wierd. But hey we did it and now we never feel the need to coat ourselves in lava mud again.).

We saw a few wild animals, including this porcupine at the resort. We spotted a few monkeys in trees too.

We had some questionable Costa Rican meals (Okay I had a questionable meal)

We had some good meals too.