We have settled into Mal Pais pretty comfortably. Routines involve a morning at the beach with all 3 boys letting off their steam - the biggest boy goes for a surf while the other two get involved with sticks, sand, rocks and old coconuts washed up on the shore. The big exception to our comfort is our sleep. We intended on finding a place to rent here for a few weeks or up to a month. With the holiday season upon us however, there is nothing available. This leaves us with the hotel option. Still pretty good value at $50 a night for four beds, private bathroom, access to outdoor kitchen area, pool, wi-fi, etc. but the big snag is our sleep. We broke up the trip with rentals along the way which were golden, but the sleeps all in the same room are pretty tough during nighttime wakeups. Today we also found an extremely cheap flight to Toronto which we are trying to book at the moment - Canadian agents put us on hold for too long so we're waiting for the CRica agents to finish up with their siesta. Poor sleep, cheap flight? For this reason, we are likely heading back in the near future. We'll still be here for Christmas, but I don't think anyone would pass up a two hundred dollar flight from San Jose.
Being at the beach today was like a nature walk pretty - there was a family of howler monkeys right over the trail and also several vultures sitting very close by. Two spiky large iguanas crawled up a tree covered in thorns. Ali said it was like being at a zoo or something and people pay big money to see this stuff at zoos, so we kept trying to get the boys interested in watching all the wildlife, but the boys were actualy more interested in their sticks. Shane holding his, and Logan hitting the barbed wire fence with his. Sticks are all the rage here in Mal Pais. Of course, they always want the same one.
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