Unexpected

Jan 7: 91 degrees

It is 8am and here we go again in Spanish class.  I take a deep breath, look out to the beach and take a sip of my coffee.  I am bracing myself for today's lesson.  To my surprise, I am beginning to understand my instructor.  I can't make out every word he is saying but, enough to actually know what is going on.  This is crazy!  I cannot yet put a full sentence together, but my comprehension is already greater.  Today's class is much better and Mandy accuses me of enjoying myself.  I'm now excited to learn Spanish.

On Tuesdays,  CSI welcomes students to the beach for a couple of cervezas and to watch the sunset.  We join them at 5, and we watch the sunset while making new friends.  We are in class with Americans and Armanians.  Some are traveling by themselves,  some with friends, and some with family members.  They range in age from 14 to mid 50s.  During the day, we are all Spanish students and tonight,  we watch a breath-taking sunset.

Tonight,  we walk to the far end of Tamarindo and find a little place called FT's. It looks like a little dive but the menu sounds great.  We give it a shot.  We sit and order a couple of 750 ML Pilsen to start the night off right.  Here, we decide to split a huge burrito.  It is fantastic!  Everything in it was so good and fresh and this place is cheap, relatively speaking.  What we didn't know when we walked into this place is that Mandy and I were going to have a wonderful little date night.  The food was great,  the beer was treating us well, but the conversation reminded me of why I am in love with my wife.

One last surprise for the night.  We get back to our apartment for the night and it was clean!!!  Housekeeping was there today.  You see, this is exciting because we have crabs, large spiders and ants in our room daily.  They are now gone, we now have beach towels and no more sand on our bed.