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  • Manuel Antonio rain forest and beach

    Our second destination in Costa Rica was the Manuel Antonio rain forest and beach.  It was about a 30 minute drive from our hotel outside of Quepos.

    It took about an hour to hike through the rain forest to reach the beach.  The hike wasn’t hard, just long – and it happened to coincide with our 10:30am snack break.

    The beach was awesome, as evidenced by my 360 degree panorama shot, however, Susan was accosted by both the monkeys and the raccoons which actually made away with a bag of our food.

    The kids and I missed the action, but we promptly packed up and headed for safer shores.  The beach just outside of the park is also pristine and beautiful minus the monkey and raccoons.

     

  • Monkeying around




  • Monkey time

    Our second day in Costa Rica, and it’s Monkey time!

  • Hadobogee and Parker

    Hadobogee and Parker have a special bond, as is evidenced by our first night in Costa Rica.

  • Prepare for lift off

    We left the house at 5:30 sharp to get to the airport on time.  Considering that we had spent the entire day in D.C. getting a passport for Skylar the day before, I was happy to be on our way.

  • Letter to Santa

    Parker was upset because he couldn’t write a letter to Santa and now he wouldn’t get his… socks????

     

  • Letter to Santa 2017

    Skylar wrote a letter on behalf of herself and her brother to Santa / bear blankie.  Sometimes it’s so cute you have to break out the scanner and preserve it forever:

  • Festival of lights

    Just like when Jesus was alive, Camels, candy coated apples, neon lights with rides…

    Check out the camera pose by the camel operator – priceless.

  • Xmas photo 2017

    It’s that time of year again!  I was inspired by Susan’s idea to dress Skylar as an angel.  My idea was to hang her from a ladder and have her floating above us waiving a magic wand.  I think I got the desired effect:

  • RTC Thanksgiving Parade

    We were able to participate with LANK, Parker’s preschool, for the Reston Town Center holiday parade the day after Thanksgiving.  Neither of the kids were that into it this year, probably because no one brought candy to hand out.

    The real highlight was at the end of the parade when we happened across a float of Star Wars characters.  We got some pictures with Darth Vader, Skylar shook his hand (which is quite the feat considering how both kids were run like hell whenever they saw an oversized Disney character a couple years ago), and the Emperor photo bombed us.