18 December 2011 Family Vacation

¡Hola familia! The Postera's and the McNett's including Patrick are in Costa Rica! Todd, Liz and Katie flew in last Monday and ventured north, coming back to meet up with the Posteras, Ada and Patrick, and drove down to Dominical yesterday. We are in the lovely Villa Toucan Tango, and went to the beach for the first time today. The weather is a little uncooperative, the rainy season keeps going even though it's the dry season now. We've seen some awesome little critters, a few of us saw a group of ten capuchen monkeys (white faced, see previous blog on monkeys for more info on the four types of monkeys found in Costa Rica), Uncle Rick has self-proclaimed himself as "chosen" and "green" because a lizard skittered up his leg at dinner last night :)

This blog was created to share information and educate before our trip, but it can also be used as a source of free communication between us and others. We'll be posting fun adventures and pictures of us and cool animals and insects we find, feel free to ask questions, email us (we have internet, but limited phone). We're having a blast and the party has just begun!

This is a little lizard guy that Todd and Katie stumbled across on a walk, waiting for the sun to come warm it up.

Toucans up north, still just the three of us. Look at the coloring on the beak, bright green with bright orange, blue and purple colored accents.

This was taken today at the Playa Hermosa (Beautiful Beach), this is a chestnut-mandable toucan and if you compare it with the previous toucan pictured, the coloring is different. The beak is a rich brown on bottom and a yellow-light green on top with no bright colored accents.

These are just a few of our awesome photos, we'll be posting soon, it just takes ten minutes to upload a picture and it hogs all the internet at the house so everyone gets cranky.

Hah, Uncle Rick just got pooped on by a gecko, classic.