Happy Thanksgiving!

David: Happy Thanksgiving! Sarah and I just celebrated our first Thanksgiving outside of the U.S. Needless to say, the pilgrims didn’t make it to Costa Rica, just the conquistadors and Spanish imperialism, so there wasn’t much of a holiday. We would have gone to the beach or something but we leave really soon for Nicaragua to renew our visas so it didn’t seem like we needed to. We’ll spend our time in Nicaragua at a beach town called San Juan Del Sur. It is a sleepy surf town.

Well, we think we might have just made the turn toward summer. Our days switched from cloudy and rainy all day to having a lot of sun in the morning and rain in the afternoons. We are still getting quite a bit of rain, but it is slowing down. The sun is warmer and the nights are cooler and those are two signs of summer.

One of the projects we have been motivated to work on since we got here has been the room that is suppose to be the natural history museum. We have some exciting plans for it and when we shared those with Efrain a while ago we could see that he was excited about them. Since QERC was built in 2001 it has been a desire of the community to have the museum for their kids to explore and for tourists to be able to look at it. Efrain wants it to be an educational tool for everyone. So, it is very exciting for us that this week one of our ideas was completed. Laura, the Canadian woman who lives in the valley, just finished building and installing a really cool shelf system. It is made out of cypress and it has a lot of character to it. It is just a shelf, but it already adds a lot to the room and it will give us the space to display all kinds of fun things.

Today we had Liseth and two of her kids, Diego and Jeanette, over for pizza (Sarah's pizza is getting really good). Diego and Jeanette both are characters. I found out that Diego knows quite a bit about birds. He cruised through the bird book showing me everything that he sees here and it was impressive.