Life is good. It is very good. Everyone got here without a hitch. Wyatt and I met them at the airport with two bottles of champagne and frozen water to keep it cold. It was amazing seeing them all file out and made me realize how much I had missed them all these last 3 months! We all piled into a bus and headed for Taganga hot and sticky with frizzy sweat hair, and big backpacks. It was pretty hilarious the reaction that 8 gringos recieve walking down the street!
We have been drinking steadily, swimming, laying on the beach, eating fresh shrimp coctail they mix up for you and serve with big saltine crackers, eating fruit and little else, drinking cold beers in the ocean, reading (Chealsea has already read an entire book), and staying up till dawn. We even have a beach dog buddy that follows us everwhere, even comes to sleep at the house sometimes who we have given the lovely name of Milktoast. She was dubbed that probably around 5 in the morning by me, Shannon, Graham and Wyatt because she has a small patch of very white fur on her neck that looks slightly like toast. Today is supposedly ¨dry¨as there is an election tomorrow, but we will see what that really means. We have been living off of 2 bottles of booze and 2 crates of beer a day, so this could be a blessing or a curse.....probably a blessing for our livers. We have rented a big house with 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, 3 bathrooms, and an open air patio upstairs with 2 hammocks and the breeze off the ocean. Pretty nice. We made fish tacos last night that were so good. We went and bought the fish at dusk when the boats came in. I think tonight we are going to drag out matresses to the patio and watch movies outside.
It is beautiful here, everyone is finally relaxed and feeling very much on vacation. It is kind of weird to have Portland in Colombia, but I like it, and it has been interesting to have other people around all day to talk to and experience it all with, giving me and Wyatt a little space from each other.
I am going to find a wifi place to post pictures soon cause I have some priceless ones! Mom, will check flight status before you arrive, no prob! Have a great trip if I don´t write before you leave and will see sooo soon! Micah, we can´t wait for you to get here!!!