Mom and Ron's Visit

So, this doesn't have a whole lot of pictures to it, unfortunately.  I don't know if I have any pictures from my mom's trip down here.  The one picture we really did have was left in a camera at the Campo Verde cabinas near Arenal.  Hrmm.  

So, here are some great things.  Everybody loves my mom.  Which makes sense.  She's nice.  When she came to town, everyone heard about it quickly and it made me realize how lucky I am both to have such a wonderful mother and live in such a positive community.  Several dozen people came up to my mom and said, "Oh, I heard you were in town.  So nice to meet you!"  And then follow it with some compliment about me.  It was Funny-Farm-esque.  People here hug and kiss (guys don't kiss guys, but every other combination works), so my mom and Ron both got plenty of affection.  My mom, in spite of her somewhat disgusted reaction to my house, said she felt a lot better about me living down here.  So that's nice.  

I miss them already. 

Quick highlight - Traveling to Arenal.  After picking up Jeni at the airport, we drove to see the active volcano where we spent a couple of nights.  It was incredible.  We walked to where we could sit on some lava flow from 1992, and watched and listened as house size rocks tumbled from the crest a thousand feet down to the base, leaving puffs of dust and debris as they repelled off the steep slope of ash and gravel.  With each landslide came the anticipation of the delayed barrage of thunderous applause echoing down the canyons formed by timeless fury.  A skirt of cumulous clouds lifted in the early morning to expose all but the very lip of the lone mountain, creating a lusting desire to see the peak, just for a second, just once.  Over lunch and an Imperial, we watched as her skirt blew lazily in the breeze, rising, rising, rising, and then falling just before she was completely exposed as if she knew how to keep our undivided attention without compromising her integrity.  She left us satisfied and in awe, but wanting more, the perfect seduction.

And interestingly, we met a guy from Norman, Oklahoma, who owns a sweet little hopping dinner spot in La Fortuna, Lava Lounge, just a few K from the volcano.  Cool.