TAP!!

My friend, Frank Kelly, from New York, shared a video a while back with the Nicholas Brothers dancing up a storm. I love tap and frankly, who doesn't?!
I hope you enjoy these clips, too.

We have been getting busier and busier with the production of NUNSENSE. What a great show! If it plays locally to you, please make the effort to go see it. Lots of laughs and fun. Our "Nuns" are a great cast of gals who certainly have the heart and soul to do this - not to mention the talent.
I have been learning to Stage Manage with this show. What a big job it is...even bigger than directing, but I am enjoying myself and thank goodness, I am not the director. They have too many things to think about.
All is well in my world for now. Take care and blog soon!!

New Arrivals to Costa Rica

Well, they finally got here!! Rob, Jennifer, Nicko, and Henry Horshman from Wilmington, N.C.
These folks are some of the best people you could come across. We were neighbors in Wilmington and always had get-togethers, dinner parties, theme parties and nice long sits in rocking chairs on the front porch. It had been their dream for years to finally move to Costa Rica and the dream has manifested!! Welcome, welcome, welcome!!
They are living in Atenas. A little mountain town known for its climate - "the best in the world" according to National Geographic Magazine.
So we go to visit on Saturday and attend a welcome party given for them by the locals. We ate, sang karoke (not me...didn't want to break up the party!), danced and caught up with the latest news. Everybody had a good time. We are so glad they are here!

Rob, cool dude!

Nicko, starting first grade and new adventures.

Jennifer with Henry, he's the shy one!

Jennifer, Henry and Nicko

Jennifer, great gal!!

BAT! MAN!!

About two weeks ago, at around 3:30 in the morning, I hear a pppptttttthhhhh. ppppttttthhhhh. pppptttthhhhhhh.

Something is flying around the bedroom.

I lay there and listen. I decided it was not one our finches that had somehow gotten out of the cage. Besides, they sleep all night, anyway. As my eyes adjust, I see it flying around from one window to the next.

A bat!!

I wake Dennis up and we are now wondering how to get it out......how it got in, is a mystery as well.

As I go to open the door so maybe we can shoo it toward the outside, Dennis fans a t-shirt at it and hits it, of course, knocking it down. We thought we had killed it. Anyway, I put it outside on the window ledge and left it alone. It stayed there all day, breathing but very still. We checked on it often and I found it to be very interesting as I had never seen one so close before. We assumed it was dying and would bury it in the park across the street.

Well, we come home that evening and it was gone. Hopefully it got its strength back and took off. Happy ending.....!!

Puerto Viejo....again

Dennis and I went back to Puerto Viejo again to celebrate our birthdays. This is one of our favorite places in Costa Rica. This place takes casual to a different level. It is famous for surfing and you can find all sorts of folks visiting or living here. Located almost as far south on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica before you hit Panama, Puerto Viejo is represented by about 55 countries. The variety of restaurants is a good indication of this fact. You can chow down on local cuisine of a whole fried red snapper, sea bass encrusted with macadama nuts on coconut rice or have a big bowl of Roon Doon. Roon Doon is a local dish much like the Gulf Coast's gumbo. If you say Roon Doon with a Carribbean accent you hear the actual meaning of "run down". This was a dish of whatever Mama could "run down" for dinner. Bits of local fish right off the boat, potatoes, acotes, onions, lobster, shrimp...just whatever she could find that day. Delicious!!

This is where we stayed on Punta Uva, a bit out of town. Their website: Pachamamacaribe.com is a great web site. Check it out. We would stay there again, for sure.

Sorried up.....

This is the main street with the street vendors. Fun to look at and browse at the locally made trinkets and souvenirs.

Bikes are the main means of transportation, followed by scooters, walking, and then autos or trucks. Of course, the busses pass through town as well.

This is a local pulperia or convenience store. Not a lot of variety will be here, but you can buy eggs, beer, sodas, and other daily necessities without going into town.

We were walking along the road and came across these kids playing in the streets. They were friendly, funny and just having a good time. It reminded me when we were kids and could run around and openly play without having to worry about the meaness so common today.

I always enjoy this area. We were lucky enough to see sloths, toucans, monkeys and hummingbirds galore!! If you come to Costa Rica, do include Puerto Viejo as part of the trip...you won't be sorry.