Biggest creature so far..

It was a quiet Saturday and we now have a ton of fresh groceries (no cash anymore but lots of food).

Our biggest shopping trip yet so we're hoping it's 3 weeks worth!

We met up with Chris at a nearby restaurant after shopping and had a nice lunch.  Tonny joined us as well and we're lucky to have met him.  He's a super nice guy and tries his best to teach me Spanish.


The waitress got a kick out us when she handed the bill to Chris, he handed it to me, and I handed to Sandy.  She laughed and said "Yeah, Costa Rica men do it too!"

This afternoon we had another little visitor at the house, a chameleon!  It was quite a bit larger than the Gecko's we've got around the house and a beautiful bright green.

I can't really refer to it as "tame" but it was willing to let us get close to it as long as we moved very slowly.  I was actually able to take a square Tupperware container about 4 inches square and lower it slowly on top of it.

It was kind of funny because after I set the container on top of him he started running across the patio, dragging it with him as he scrambled through the legs of the chair.

After I took the container off of it, it didn't seem to want to leave.

Alex could actually touch its tail before it would scamper away. As it sat on the rock you see, it changed color to a very dark green.


Some folks came but to look at the property we are at so we went for our walk.  We go farther every day and this time I am quite sure that we walked at least two miles each way and these are fairly steep roads up and down the hills.  All three of us our getting healthier by the day and it feels great to sweat the toxins out.  My blue jeans actually fit again without having to jerk the snap together!

On our way home, just before our driveway, we saw the largest creature we've seen yet.  It's called a Tayra! It jumped out of the woods to our left and ran across the road about 50 feet ahead of us, back into the jungle on the other side.


Jet black with a very long tail, maybe 2-3 feet.  It looked to be about as long as I am tall.  I grabbed a big rock and threw it into the trees where the thing had gone to scare it off a little more.  Mom says "Thanks for drawing attention to us!"  No worries, I found a new big walking stick so we're ready for anything.  I plan to sharpen it to a point later.  They are omnivores so they're mainly after just little animals, reptiles, and fruit.

We had a very nice down pour yesterday and started hearing a big frog of some kind. After dinner I am going out with a flashlight to try and get a glimpse of it.

We're excited about dinner of course since now we even have pork chops, mash potatoes and even a couple of apple pies for later in the week.  Yahoo!