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Arizona!

Over the river and through the woods to Grandma Gale and Grandpa Richard! The trip read mostly uneventful, though Malcolm thought it would be fun to extra poop at one of our stops resulting in 4 diapers and a new outfit, hooray. No changing table in the men's room meant

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New Mexico

Charlie had a lot of fun running to and away from Roscoe. He's a nervous about all that dog coming at him for kisses, but first thing in the morning he tried to go directly from bed to share his writing board with "Wosco". Later a few of us went

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Made It To Laughlin!

Not much to add here.. Had too much of a nice steak dinner, Chuck and Macs are asleep in the room with mom, while Aunt Cat gets a tutorial on gambling!

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First Trip With Malcolm!

... And it's a doozy! 4 states in 2 weeks. We are starting from home heading to Nevada and New Mexico, then over to Arizona, and back to California to hit 29 palms and Orange County. So far our little guys are being troopers. Charlie has been playing with cars, coloring,

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The Wedding

The point of the trip was to come out and join Alyson and Matt as they got hitched out here near Torch Lake, Michigan, and we were finally settled in at the cabin, we had a glimpse of the wedding location, a taste of what the food would be like,

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Rehearsal Dinner

The first stop after arriving in the beautiful rural town of Torch Lake, Michigan was the rehearsal dinner. We freshened up at the cabin, then Matt and Alyson's family and friends all gathered at a local resort to meet each other, hang out, and in general make merry. The dinner

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Road Trip

We arrived in Chicago around 4pm and got a ride from Steve and his family at the airport. We decided to brave the cross-town rush hour traffic to go visit Justin and see his place in Chicago while we had the chance. His place was fantastic, all open and natural

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Chicago Bound!

The family and I have crammed into the tiniest airline seats known to man. Spirit Airlines, your prices are amazing, but the quality you provide is crap. The flight was a little trying. The boy got tired about 2 hours in and whined and cried for half an hour till

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Hasta luego, Costa Rica, y gracias por todos los peces

We spent the last couple of days driving back up the coast. We broke it up into smaller chunks of driving, which allowed us to take our time and have a really relaxing trip. We stopped off in Manuel Antonio, just outside of Quepos, and stayed at the Costa Verde

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Last Night in Zancudo

The last two days have been all about relaxing, which means they’re not so much about things that we’d usually blog about. Most of our experiences that we want to share are about exciting adventures, danger lurking around occasional corners, interesting places, neat animals with horrible stomach ulcers,

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Panama? Close enough.

Well, after our last experience, we decided to try Panama again with our neighbors who go every once in a while themselves. We figured that they would know how to deal with the cars and paperwork issues. Turns out, they don’t go IN to Panama, they just park their

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Panama?

Last Monday we decided to try to make the trip to Panama on our own. We had heard that the prices were much lower than in Costa Rica, and we thought we’d do some souveniring and maybe pick up a guitar to play. We got up at the crack

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Osa Wildlife Sanctuary

We woke up early this morning because we had a tour of the Osa Wildlife Sanctuary scheduled for 9am and the boat would take 45 minutes to get there. We couldn’t drive because apparently, there’s no road, so boat was the only option. Apparently the usual person to

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Life’s a beach

Every day during Morgan’s lunch break we go down to the beach for a little swim. The water is so nice, but the waves are kicking my butt, I’m so ungainly! It’s hard on my back to stand in the crashing waves and get pulled by the

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Usual life in Zancudo

We’ve been here in Costa Rica for about a week now and we’re starting to get a routine. One of my favorite things about staying so long in a foreign country is that it starts to feel like you live there. The biggest difference between Zancudo and home

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At the beach house

Saturday was a day of hanging out, napping, and more napping. There were dozens of monkeys hopping through the trees at around 7 or 8 am. We didn’t get any pictures, but we sat on the porch and watched them try to get at the green bananas in the

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Playa Ventanas Video

We saw these caves on Friday, pretty amazing!

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We found a toad

On our way home in the car, the headlights show the way in front of us and this excites the frogs who have been waiting to be able to see well enough to hop across the road. In addition to producing swerving while we’re on the highway, it also

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Working from the Costa Rica

Tomorrow, I begin my week of work in Costa Rica. I still feel like I planned this whole thing pretty well. By working this first week then having the next two weeks to vacation, we’ll be able to get a good feel for the area, learn about it first,

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Holidays! Down South

Today we are headed back up the coast. We are coming from a holiday trip to visit family in Southern California. We spent Christmas Eve and Day In Costa Mesa. It was nice to be back there. I knew where everything was, and even if I didn’t, chances are

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Thanksgiving in Arizona with the Pre-In-laws

Arizona is about a 12 hour drive from our place in Oakland.. We left after I finished work, (and finished packing) at around 7or 830pm.. We drove all night. I kept trying to think of the drive like I did in Ireland, all scenery. ..and that worked sometimes. But really,

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Souveniring!

We cut out of work a little early on Friday to see the downtown of San José and get some lunch and souvenirs for the trip home. We headed to a little cafe called Kalá that had amazing salads, sandwiches, and desserts. I had all three and was suitably stuffed

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Jet Blue, Thy Name is So-So

Well, that was an experiment in futility. I decided that because I’d never flown JetBlue before that I’d give it a shot. The people weren’t the nicest, the terminal wasn’t the nicest, the price wasn’t the best, but hey, people say it’s great right?

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Costa Rica, the Co-Star I Can’t Ignore

About 4 months ago, my company came to me and said, “How would you like to go to Costa Rica to help us teach a company to use the software you write?” After I finished choking on my coffee and nearly strangling the man to say yes, I didn’t

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Work Work Work, All the Time

So many things around me are in English that it’s easy to forget I’m in a foreign country, and not just in Hawaii or San Diego. The differences can be subtle, though, like trying to turn on the water in the morning. My whole life, I’ve known