It has been a brilliant two weeks with the Badgetts; I can't think of a better way to have started 2010. When the Bs are here, we don't stop roaming. It is a beautiful reminder of just how wildly diverse is nuestro pais pequeño [new-ACE-troe pa-EES pay-CANE-yo, our little country] Costa Rica. We kissed 2009 tata (and what a year it was.) For something completely different, we welcomed in 2010 with big plans and dreams of grandeur. My old dreams of grandeur included being a famous movie star married to Sean Penn with homes in Malibu and . . . → Read More About Moving About The Countryside
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6 January 2010
 4 comments - (Comments are closed)  Badgetts, Cabecar, Domincal, Festivals & Holidays, Ginnee's Farm, Uvita
We are celebrating Christmas in our new traditional fashion: by spending the holidays with the kosher Badgetts and not celebrating. It's now oh so de rigeur and oh so much more fun than the old way. The Bs have come every (#1) Christmas (#2) week (#3) since our first in Costa Rica. If Willow didn't arrive the middle of December, we'd . . . → Read More About I’m Having One and I Feel Like Sharing: I hope your day is as fun and exciting as this little guy’s is! (Thank you, George.) Pura vida! Love, Saratica Seen in Pricesmart… Since there are no major holidays (besides, hello, Costa Rica's Independence Day) between now and Christmas, LET'S GET STARTED! Every year, Her Majesty the Queen of England celebrates her birthday at Costa Rica's British Embassy right here in Escazú. Actually, She celebrates the big day everywhere in the world with a British Embassy. With 261 embassies, that's a lot of presents. And it's a bash with a carnival atmosphere: clowns, horse rides, fantastic bands (like Harmony Roads), face painting, tents, silent auction (the QBP is also a fundraiser for local schools), . . . → Read More About QBP 2009 Here we are at Lisa’s house, overlooking the central valley of San José province, Costa Rica. Lisa lives about 500′ directly above us, so this is from 4500′. It’s not often you get to look down on fireworks! The last time that happened (aside from 31 Dec 2007 on this same patio) was at my mother’s fourth and final marriage on the 101st floor of the WTC. It was coincidentally the same night as the QEII’s maiden voyage after her trip to battle in the Falklands. Big event, big fireworks from Battery Park below us. The top of . . . → Read More About Prospero Año Nuevo Christmas is BIG in Costa Rica. The decorations and pre-game warm-up start right around my birthday at the end of September. They don't celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving so nothing to stop them from going all out. Including fireworks. The fireworks' cannons have been going off pretty much non-stop since noon yesterday… we had to do SOMETHING. A reprise of our Feliz Navidad from a couple of years ago seemed appropriate, now that we have back-up: the Badgetts from New Jersey. They've spent every Christmas with us since our first here. We . . . → Read More About Feliz (boom) Navidad (boom boom)! Of the falling you-know-what. Go ahead, you listen. I'm sick of it. This is our third rainy season here and I plan on it being my last. Almost anywhere else will do. Even Key West in the stifling end-of-hurricane-season heat (she says now.) October through mid-December here is for the birds. I never knew it could rain so much or that I could get so sick of it. It's just life-giving rain, right? Day after day after day after day after day after day of endless wet, cold, life-giving rain? When we were looking for a house, . . . → Read More About Listen to the Rhythm… My friend Teri at Yo-Yo in Paradise turned me on to this – great songs by some of my favorite artists! FREE but only for a few more hours so go now if you can. That saved me $8 on iTunes and took about a minute. Click here for the songs. Thank you, Teri! var addthis_pub = "Saratica"; |
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