If you are traveling to Costa Rica for Semana Santa (Easter Week) for fun in the sun and are planning to rent a car...a word of warning ..obey the traffic laws because there will be a lot of highway patrolmen on the open highways esp Highway 1 better known as the Intermaerican Highway. Also the road to Jaco Beach will be filled with Highway patrolmen. You will need your North American drivers license and your passport and of course the papers proving that you are renting the car. Speeding tickets are very expensive, sometimes up to $100's of dollars.
Penalties for driving and drinking are very stiff in Costa Rica now. Hugh fines!! And sometimes depending on the severity of the situation even a jail sentence.
If you happen to get a ticket do not pay the patrolman at the scene. Even if he tells you to do it. Take the traffic ticket back with you to the rental car company and they will assist you in settling it.
Semana Santa is Costa Rican's favorite time to go to the beach and this year all the government employees have been given the entire week off work. So the beaches will be flooded with people. As well as the highways. Expect long lines of cars to get from San Jose to the northern Guanacaste beaches.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A New Grand-Daughter!
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- what size shoe?
I have not written in several weeks because I have been with my new granddaughter, Cara Isabella, and her parents, my daughter Maria and her husband John in Brooklyn, NY. Born February 14th and weighing almost nine pounds, she is a little bundle of joy., I should I say a big bundle of joy! She is my first grandchild and now I know why these little creatures are called grandchildren. They are indeed grand!
Fair skin and blue eyes of her Irish father and dark brown hair and large wide eyes of her Spanish mother.
She kept her parents and me (three adults) under her command, not being able to speak a single word. But she sure could cry! We could not bear even a whimper so of course she learned fast that being in our arms was better than in the crib.
I took the 3 a.m. shift of feeding her allowing her mother and dad to get some rest. But during the day I was unable to sleep, guess it was the excitement of it all.
She recently had her one month birthday party....three new pink outfits size three months, yes three months...she is going to be a tall girl--her Dad is six feet and she has his long slim body with long feet, toes, and fingers.
When Cara learns to walk I would like to take her to a beautiful Costa Rica beach and let her play in the blue waters of the Pacific and walk barefoot in the soft sand.
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