Home life, Haircut & Football

Beautiful summer day in Nuevo Arenal

It's beginning to seem like we're straddling two worlds:  the domestic life with school, homework, shopping and cooking during the week punctuated with weekends of adventure and exploration.  The kids are likely more sensitive to this dichotomy, as they're the ones going to school.  This morning we were greeted by the warm sun.  While Madeleine was at school, the boys were quite productive.  We've been quizzing Sullivan on Spanish words and phrases where he'll tell you the Spanish equivalent of the English word or phrase.  Today we did this for at least a half hour, of course while he was building legos.  It is truly remarkable what his five year-old brain is able to learn.

Hard at work

The only exciting tidbit from school was that the religion teacher is back, apparently from maternity leave.  Madeleine wasn't terribly forthcoming with details about this, however.  Kelly again joined us after school, as the girls are studying for exams that start next week.  Armed with a stick, I went for a run up the dirt road towards Lake Cote and fortunately didn't have to threaten or swat any dogs with anger issues.  It was beautiful but more than a little warm.

My grandest accomplishment of the day was finally having my hair cut.  Lorena at the shop in town was as efficient as she was friendly and charged me 2,000 colones, or $4.  Sometimes it's hard to reconcile the low cost of services with the relatively high cost of food.  How do people make enough money to live?  Of course I couldn't not give her a nice tip.

The place for a haircut

After picking up the boys we took full advantage of the weather and kicked the football around in the park.  This simple life is treating us well so far.

After school football in the park

Running off some energy