Sunday 11/16/08

Today we were planning to go to the river, but the rain decided to spoil our planned river journey. Instead, we had a nice breakfast of pinto together and watched movies. Luckily, one of the movies ended making the morning a morning full of laughter. We decided to put in Zumba, which is a dance workout video. The rest of the morning was a sweaty workout (both from the dancing and the unending laughter). We all showered off and eventually had what I call “root soup” for lunch (a soup full of different vegetables that come from roots such as yucca) while watching Harry Potter. We all took midday “siestas” and spent the rest of the afternoon dinking around. I messed around on my computer and made a silly video with some of the footage from our morning dance routines. Before dinner we watched the news, as usual. The biggest piece of news was that the Chinese president is visiting. There are actually a large number of Chinese immigrants who live here in Costa Rica. We eventually ate dinner and finished the night by watching the Prince and Me (I’m telling, all these movies are wearing my eyes out). With the left over marshmallows from Rice Krispy treats, I taught the family how to make smores over the gas stove. The crackers weren’t quite the same as graham crackers so they weren’t as successful as I had hoped, but it was still fun watching everyone burn their marshmallows. We all headed to bed around 9.