I don't know if you remember yesterday I mentioned seeing a couple kids playing with a bike with no wheels and how sad it was. Today, on the way to the beach, we went and bought a bike and went back and dropped it off, I had asked the cab driver yesterday where was a shop you could buy one and he gave me directions. I honestly don't know if it was the same family, because all the houses are in a similar state, but we drove down the same road and then backtracked to a house with 4 kids, ranging from 3 - 10 probably. We stopped and said to the parents we have a bike for the kids if it's ok ("ay una bicicletta para su ninos, es ok?"...they said yes, so they came to the back of the car and when I opened the tailgate and they saw a NEW bike, they were very excited. We got red because we didn't know if it would be for a boy or girl. The little girl, who was about 4, got a huge smile on her face and immediately went and claimed the bike, which was just slightly too big for her, but had training wheels, and a friend of hers came running down the road full tilt with another great big smile to see the bike too. I could hear the mother say "es para dos" (it's for both of you)...so I know they'll share it within the families which is nice too.
The store where we bought it would sell it for 39,100 colones or $78.20 US. Or you could buy it on credit (everything in the store was like this, fridges, couches, everything) with 49% interest for 48 months, which would basically double the price. You can imagine not many little kids have bikes! When we left Jay said "I feel like we should go back and buy more bikes for the rest of the kids". It felt nice to be able to do that and I hope it makes the girls realize how fortunate they are. We talked about how living down here is not the same as at home and how they don't have as much and how lucky we are and they are. Anyway..it was a good feeling, I just hope the parents weren't offended.
We went back to Playa Flamingo today, the waves weren't as big, and it was a scorcher today, so we were piling on the 60 sunblock as often as we could (though I managed to spray a zig zag pattern on Jays back somehow and he didn't reapply so now he has a weird burn pattern!). We left the beach after about an hour and went for lunch to Marie's. My Mom said we went there when we were here last time and it was good - it's in a new location now, it's open air. We had a big conversation at lunch about at home we couldn't have restaurants like this because the snow would come right in. And Paige is hung up on Costa Rica not being in Canada..she can't believe we're not in a part of Canada and keeps thinking we're just not understanding what she's asking us "are we in Canada?" "No honey, we're not in Canada" "no mummy, but is Costa Rica part of Canada" "no, it's not". "No mummy, but are we still in Canada". "Paige, seriously, I don't know what to tell you but we are no where near Canada".
Trevor's birthday is in a few days, on Christmas Day..so Paige said to him "So Santa brings you Christmas presents wrapped in Birthday paper?" Very cute. And she said - "but you can't have a party for your birthday because no one would come because they're all opening presents with their families. So sad for Trev."
Back at the house we just hung out by the pool all afternoon, not too much to share. We're keeping an eye out on the weather in Toronto tomorrow and signed up for alerts on our flight and the inbound flight from Toronto too. If that one is delayed we should know before we have to leave for the airport. The owners of the house we rented own a hotel in town so I emailed Nathalie and asked her if we could come to the hotel tomorrow to stay by the pool. We have to check out at 10am and our flight is at 7:45pm, so we would leave here around 3:30 to get to the airport and drop the rental car off if the flight is on time. She said no problem we can stay at the hotel as long as we want.
Home tomorrow...boo. I actually don't mind if we get delayed, but Trev would likely miss his flight home, which would suck because it's expensive to fly over the holidays and he probably won't get any money back, plus he'll miss seeing his family for his birthday and Christmas! I'm not sure what would happen if they cancel the flight..when Sunwing would get us home..
Fingers crossed we'll get out on time!
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