All in all, Karen and I had an uneventful trip across the big pond. We both had to work before heading out. I also had to visit the chiro for more one adjustment (that was three this week alone!) and then home to ice the back. Conrad picked Karen up and then me. We weren't able to web check in so we had to do it at the airport. We found out that air Canada couldn't check us through but we did manage to secure a seat on the earlier flight across to Vancouver. On...

There is an amazing lightening storm on right now. I haven't seem a show like this since I was a little girl. I remember being fascinated by lighting storm which are very common on the summer in Ontario. Tonight's lightening is actually sheet lightening and it's lighting up the whole sky. It's not amazing in terms of it's colours but it's sheer brightness. The wind had picked up and no doubt the rain will start falling soon. It was a perfectly sunny mornin...

Another day on paradise...I am really enjoying this holiday. Peter said it might be our best ever. After the long day at MA park yesterday we decided to stay close to home today. I was up by six and Peter up shortly thereafter. The howler monkeys woke me up at dawn. They were laughing and howling. At four thirty in the morning it sounded like they were laughing at us! Other tropically places (read Hawaii and Mexico) have roosters that wake you up here it's ...

Perfect day today. Will definitely be one of my favorite vacation memory ever! Manuel Antonio national park is a gem and I now understand why it's one of the top 10 parks in the world and why it's the smallest national park In CR but the most popular. Pete and I spent about 6 hours there and even though we applied sunscreen twice and sat in the shade we are both a little redder than is healthy. I'm hoping I'm not in too much pain this evening.

Luckily the weatherman was wrong about today. He said it was going to pour all day and that the sun wasn't going to make an appearance. So glad he was wrong. I woke up at six and could see the blue sky for the