Papayas not pumpkins...

Our scary handmade tissue ghosts

Here I sit at the house of dreams trying to write more blogs about all our wonderful adventures with Shuli. It has been raining on and off this morning and my bed was so cozy I stayed in it most of the morning. The volcano is hiding behind a blanket of misty clouds and Katie and Denise are quietly enjoying their Toastlettes and Nutella with coffee and a morning game of Backgammon upstairs on the balcony. I’m sitting on our little green couch downstairs that surprisingly isn’t very comfortable even though it lives here in the house of dreams (it cant all be perfect). It also has a mysterious smell that seems to get a little worse when it rains...Perhaps staying in bed to write would have been a better choice.

Tomorrow is Halloween and I am feeling a little homesick for all things Fall. Although it has been rainy the past few days here in La Fortuna, it is still warm and our surroundings are very tropical. Instead of a pumpkin patch next door we have a papaya farm. No talk of costumes, no scarecrows, no pumpkins, no decorations, no leaves changing colors. At the vegetable stand we looked for something that reminded us of Fall to help decorate our cabin but the best we could find was a hanging onion braid. It sort of adds a Fall like feel to the kitchen and now we’ve got a lot of onions to eat! 

Here you can see the onions really adding a huge dose of Autumn to our kitchen as well as a nice place to hang our spooky ghosts! 

There is no Halloween celebration here really, we heard talk of some people dressing up and going to the local club called Volcan Look. We have only been to Volcan Look once when we first got into town with Shuli and it was a pretty funny experience. It turned out to be a pretty large venue with enough room to host a large show downstairs and a bar upstairs. The downstairs was closed on the night we went to check it out and there were very few people there, with one lone ranger tearing up the dance floor. The whole purpose of our trip out was to shake our groove thing so after a few awkward moments we jumped right in and joined the one guy on the dance floor. It was fun to dance for awhile but over-all the place was too loud and not really our scene. So needless to say we aren’t feeling inclined to join the costume clad few at Volcan Look. I bet if we went we would end up being the only ones dressed up! 

The lone ranger tearing up the dance floor, his moves were so quick they couldn't be captured on digital media.

 

So we are trying to liven things up around here and are gearing up for our own little Halloween party. I don’t want to give away any details but we have come up with some great ideas on how to have our own tropical Halloween. In our next blog we will share with you all the successful party details. 

Well, the rain is finally letting up and we are going into town to get a few goodies for Halloween and post this blog! I guess the continuation of our adventures will have to wait another day. For now here is a sneak peek picture of our Halloween celebrations! Enjoy!