Christmas Day may be long gone, but Christmas music can still go on, at least until today. This evening all the Christmas CDs were put away, and the Christmas decorations taken down and packed up. For what, I'm not sure, but we put them in a box along with some other things we wouldn't mind having again when we come back to Panama in March.
So, we're packing up to go to Costa Rica! We leave tomorrow early, fly to San Jose and from there we'll rent a car and drive to Liberia. We'll spend one night there, and the next day, Saturday, we'll probably go to Santa Rosa National Park to see Fernando and Eva. Then on Sunday, we'll leave for Samara where we'll spend the month of January, and if we like the place enough, we may stay there in February, too.
For March, we have decided to take another house here in the valley, so we'll be coming back to Boquete in 2 months, but just not to the same house. This other house is two houses down from where we are now. And that's why we have packed up a box with some things that we bought while we were here and would be useful to us in the next house. Terri, who's in charge of rentals here, was kind enough to let us store the box in a room in her house.
This afternoon, it almost seemed like a disaster had happened. Guillermo was getting ready to go outside to take care of the bird feeding tray, and somehow or another sat down on his glasses when he went to put his shoes on. Both lenses came out!!!!! I tried not to think about the ramifications of that while I was washing dishes. I mean, here we were headed to the airport the next day, traveling to another country and then were going to be driving a rental car?!?!? I could hear him there in the living room, trying to fix those glasses with a needle or pin or something. When I finished washing the dishes, I went over to see how I could help and it almost seemed like an impossible task, to get that cord or whatever it is to fit around the bottom of the lenses. Somehow or another, we were able to get one back in place and that seemed like a miracle. The other lens popped on much easier and it was SUCH a relief to know we were done and that Guillermo had his glasses back. But wait, no, it's not that simple. Of COURSE not!! Guillermo puts his glasses back on and he says he just plain can't see so we thought the lenses were dirty from us handling them. We clean them, and still it's not going to work. Really?!?!? You think that the lenses need to be switched?!?!? It almost seemed hopeless at that point, because what are the chances of, now on purpose, popping the lenses out and popping them back on without SOMETHING breaking. We felt real lucky that first time to have done it without breaking anything.
But no, the first time made us pros and we were able to pop both lenses out, switch them around and pop them back in even quicker the second time. I think we can get jobs at Eye Mart now!!!!
Here's hoping our next place in Samara will have internet as good as where we've been for the last 2 months!
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