are we on vacation again?

Monkeys, piglets, goats, oh my!  What a great day! We went to themonkeyfarm.org today.  Other than a very challenging road up to the farm, it was a great day.  It's a newly opened monkey rescue that is working towards being a self sustainable farm.  The tour was great and we got to play with a couple of raccoons, and the best part was we got to hold the baby howler monkey.  She was so cute, even if she peed on Bubba's arm, although that was kind of funny.  We spent a few hours there, and I think I did really well with the mud and the stinky compost piles, I don't even think I made any faces!  From there we had lunch downtown Coco, can't go wrong with pizza.  Then we found the Rocket Frog Divers.... The plan is to go diving on Wednesday, Trace is going to snorkel from the same boat... Should be fun

This morning was the continuation of our journey to Costa Rica, and we finally made it.  It started as another early morning.... 5am Yikes! And off to the busiest airport in the world.  It all went surprisingly well! I think somehow we ended up in the domestic TSA line, but they were doing some kind of an expedited process and the line moved very quickly.  Just remember in that airport to check for your gate before boarding the train, once on it's too late to find out other than getting off at another stop and staring at another board.  We got to our terminal with out a hitch, had some breakfast and boarded our plan... All three of us got first class! The flight was uneventful, just the way I like them and 4 hours later we were in Liberia.  We got a car from budget, and I'll have to remember for next time that it is the loss damage insurance that is mandatory, the collision is covered by our American Express.  So about $400 later we were on our way.  T...

Oh the pleasures of flying standby!  Because some crazy guy in the Midwest tried to kill himself at an ATC location, our flights were full and over sold.  Off we went anyway at 6:00am only to be stuck in Boston for hours before we decided to connect through Richmond.... It worked and about 11 hours later we were in Atlanta! Originally we thought of flying to SJO, until Bubba talked to the resort... He was told it was at least a 5 hour drive, so we decided to stay in ATL and we'll go to LIR tomorrow.  We're staying at a Crown Plaza, and we are surrounded by Delta employees... There's some kind of training going on, and we've already met a new flight attendant and a seasoned pilot.  I'd stay here again, but there isn't a free breakfast 😢 .   We ate across the street at Malone's Bar and Grill -- excellent food!  Even Bubba liked it, and that NEVER happens!  Tomorrow will be another early day, so off to bed and hopefully tomorrow will be easier!

Our last day in Utah, and what a long one it was.  We started the day at the Red Iguana again, yummy and then drove south to the Timpanogos Cave National Monument.  It's not far from Salt Lake City, less than an hour, and it's actually an easy drive.  My legs were still sore from the ladder the day before, so I really didn't think I was going to attempt the walk, but looks are deceiving.  From the visitor center you can't see the cave entrance so I guess you can fool yourself into believing it won't be too bad.  Let's see, an incline of almost 1100 feet over 1.5 miles... OMG, I can't believe we tried it never mind made it all the way up and back.  It took us over four hours including the time in the cave.  The cave system is beautiful.  Lots and lots of stalagmites and stalagtites.  The walk through does require some bending and stooping, and even some stairs, which just complicated the pain in my legs, but it was still beautiful. The walk is...

We always seem to find interesting places to discover.  Today we went salt water diving in Utah with tropical fish.  Yes it is a land locked state, but should that stop us?  We went to a place called seabase, and driving up to it we kept asking each other is this? It was fun.  Ok, to preface our dive, we have been diving for almost 20 years, but in that time frame most have been in the Caribbean.  We' ve never kept track, but we do dive about once a year, so maybe about 15 to 20 dives only in all those years, but that being said, we are very used to seeing very far or very deep.  This dive had very limited visibility, maybe about 6 feet.... Yikes! It was freaking me out a bit, but it was fun anyway.  Although we never did see the sharks, we did see some decent size fish, and we fed them lettuce, yum?!?  The visibility reminded me of our very first dive and last time we ever dove in New England.  Driving back we saw the Great Salt Lake State P...

A weekend in Iceland.  I've wanted to go there for years, but the non rev gods weren't with us again, and we had to change our plans.  We are in Salt Lake City.  I guess it's not quite as exotic, but we've only been here for about 12 hours, and we've already had loads of fun. First stop from the airport was the Red Iguana.  It lived up to it's memories.  We found it a few years ago when we were here for a U2 concert, and Bubba has talked about it ever since.  They pretty much have yummy everything.  I had a chicken enchilada in a poblano mole sauce and Bubba had some kind of pork in a mango mole sauce.   While we were there, Bubba found a flyer for the Utah Arts Festival.  We went there after lunch.  It lasts all weekend, and today was the first day.  There are tons of arts and crafts booths with beautiful stuff to buy (which of course we did) and later in the day there were bands and other entertainment.  We went to find our h...

Maybe this is a trend.  It's rainy and dark when we get up on an off day, and we hop a plane to sunny Florida.  I guess it's not a bad trend.  The Roots are playing at Universal tonight, so that's our plan.... If we stay awake that long. Home at midnight and up at 5 for a flight makes a very long day. I heard there is a Northface outlet at the mall on I drive, so we might check that out tonight too, again we'll see if we are still awake. The plan is to come back tomorrow morning and relieve Tracey of the crazy dogs... I wonder if she got any sleep last night. Let's see, one can whine and sing for hours when she is in the mood, and the other one likes to take over the whole bed and build her nest in the middle. It can make sleep fleeting to say the least. After a very long day, we did make it home.  It's great working for an airline, but sometimes it can be a little trying when flights fill up and a 2 1/2 hour flight turns into about 8 hours and involves a taxi. ...