past two days.

a blur of driving, beauty, smiles and laughs.\ now we are in the National rent a car, returning it and waiting for a cab into San \jose to our hotel so we can catch a 6 AM bus to \panama. Sorry fot th \ sign, its in the shift place on the keyboard here and i'm trying to type as fast a possible.
\jonny and colleen's party.

So, this is Cathleen and I can't remember what's been blogged and what hasn't... sooo....let me just insert a bit about the "rehearsal" party on Sunday night. What a blast!

The Langstons' friends had rented an AMAZING house in Nosara with a great outdoor area and a pool. Since Jon and Colleen didn't have much to rehearse, it was just a party, really. Everyone who was in town for the wedding came and got drunk. There were people from New York and California, of course, and then there were some from Arizona, Michigan and Chicago -- did I get it all? I think so? I saw Michael and Kenny, whom I haven't seen since college, and met their delightful singnificant others. And I finally got to meet Sean Ferguson's fiance' and I'm not even going to attempt to spell her name so I'll just say it's the Gaelic version of Catrina. I was also so happy to meet so many other wonderful people. Jon and Colleen truly surround themselves with the greatest personalities!

So... there was drinkin' and eatin' and more drinkin' -- then people started gettin' in the pool. And Colleen lined up tequila shots. And then everyone ran around in a big circle to create a whirlpool -- which is GREAT when done properly. And then Colleen lined up tequila shots... At this point I decided I had to sober up so I could find my way back home on these dirt roads in the jungle that had no signs. But, I was tipsy enough to last me a while, trust me. Everyone got along like we'd been friends forever and it was just really great.

We finally left to head back to our home in Nosara, Casa Toucan. Well... I knew I'd have a hard time with the jungle roads and I did go down the wrong ones a couple of times -- but I had marked some landmarks so I knew when I had to go back and try again. We did finally make it back, obviously.

The following day we slept in and then had breakfast at the Cafe de Paris -- ha ha -- where the croissonts were really good, actually, and we saw the coolest bird who was totally fealess and an iguana, too.

More on this day later... the taxi should almost be here and I'm so ready to sleep after that stressful drive down from Monteverde -- more on that in a future post, too...