Just ran out to visit some friends in Playa Grande, and to do a little business (very rare that both of our businesses take us to a single location, serendipity, I tell ya).  It was just plain lovely out there and we enjoyed a little hospitality at RipJack Inn.  Incidentally- you can now find Jocelyn Broyles Jewelry at RipJack.

On the way home, the light was so lovely that I had Jocelyn stop a few times to snap a photo.  Guanacaste continues to be a beautiful area, we are lucky to enjoy it on a daily basis.

I mean, where else do you get a chance to see a guy gallop by on a horse while dialing his cellphone?  Just gotta love it!  :)

Labels: 4wd, 4x4, Costa Rica, jewelry, land cruiser, photo, weather

i've finally put together the beginnings of my wedding and special occasion portfolio and blog site. take a look and pass on the link if you know of anyone with an upcoming wedding, graduation, anniversary, baby arrival, need for personalized or initialed pendants or charms, or need for matching sets for family or best friends. check it out here!

Labels: jewelry, wedding

For those of you who are tired of Steve being a grump, take heart, Jocelyn is due back in Costa Rica on Sunday. She had a great week in Vegas.

Stay tuned to her blog or jocelynbroyles.com for more information on new store locations near you. If you can't find a store on those sites- go talk to your local jewelry/accessory store and suggest that they check out Jocelyn Broyles jewelry.

But don't call us on Sunday afternoon.

Labels: dog, jewelry, travel

For those of you in the boutique biz, you can check out Jocelyn Broyles Jewelry at the WSA show in Vegas next week. She'll be at the Venetian, suite 6136 from the 28th through the 31st. You do need a pass to attend, so follow up via email to jb (at) jocelynbroyles.com for more info. She is on the road in the states right now, so her response may be slow.

You can find out more about this sort of thing by going to Jocelyn Broyles Jewelry Blog

Labels: jewelry

Well, it finally happened. I gave in and created my very own little shelf in cyberspace. I've always loved the idea of a commonplace book, but never had the organizational skills to actually have the darn thing with me when I wanted to press a flower in it, draw a sketch in it, write a quote in it, or any of the other fabulous things one can keep and remember in a convenient, always accessible place. And then it dawned on me! I could have it all, not have to carry anything around with me, AND I could bore others at the same time. Two birds with one stone and all that! So I now have myself my very own blogspot

It'll mostly be about jewelry, living in Costa Rica, gorgeous sunsets, friends who are visiting, books I've read and quotes I like, good photographs and whatever else strikes my fancy and would otherwise go in a paperbound, compact storage space with a pretty cover that would inevitably be left sitting somewhere I wasn't.

My jewelry site is still up and running and is still where you go to buy gorgeous jewelry (even if I do say so myself).

Labels: blog, jewelry

Jocelyn Broyles Jewelry is constantly updating. This piece is from the Sylvan collection. Beautiful stuff in gold and/or silver that coordinates with jeans and tee or an elegant dress. Check it out.

Labels: jewelry

For any of you TV watchers out there, if you happened to be tuned in to ABC's October Road last night, you saw one of Jocelyn's most popular necklaces on the lovely Laura Prepon who plays Hannah Daniels on the show. Very exciting times. We hope to instill in Laura and her stylist a very high level of devotion to my designs.

Speaking of devotion to my jewelry, if you find yourself near a Nordstrom and needing one of my necklaces like a TV star, you're in luck. jocelynbroyles is now being carried by select Nordstrom department stores across the US.

But enough about me. Oh, wait, the sole pupose of this blog is to tell you about us. Alright then. Steve continues to do well with his business and just moved BBA into a larger space, giving both Bs their very own offices. The As still share the space out front, but it's a bigger, nicer, better-painted space. They also now have a lovely conference room and inner lobby for literature, dogs, un-raised signage, that sort of thing.

And low and behold, the 20th (yes, I meant 20th) century has come to BBA as well, with the installation of a phone system. For those of you who have visited or live here, you understand the all-encompassing range of issues that a system implies: coordination with perhaps more than one governmentally-run utility company; more than one phone; more than one phone line; electricity. Getting all these things together in the same building, with people who know how to install (much less use) the system, while the electricity is on and the phone lines working to test the system, is no easy feat. But BBA pulled through with flying colors and now has a phone system that almost works. You can't actually leave voice mail at the moment if no one answers, but that's really just picking nits, isn't it?

We've mostly been working as of late -- you don't get phone systems, and famous people don't wear your jewelry, and Nordstrom doesn't buy it, if you just sit around looking at the ocean view from a friend's patio, playing with your dog, selling your Sandy for parts or relocating scorpions with young on their backs. But that's just what we did, and look what we accomplished in the meantime!

Did I mention famous people, phone systems and Nordstrom yet?

Labels: jewelry, landcruiser, photo, real estate, sunset, tamarindo

The Year is off to a roaring start at jocelyn broyles original designs and jewelry!

With a review last spring in Daily Candy; finding a great new rep at the CMC this summer in LA; and opening a new account at the Palms in Las Vegas this fall; 2006 wrapped up pretty well.

But 2007 has already brought jocelynbroyles to 11 states across the country, from Bettina Duncan at Fred Segal in Los Angeles to Touch of Class in Wisconsin and lots of fabulous boutiques in between.

This means Jocelyn will be relying more on her wonderful US assistant, Karyn, and probably needing to hire someone down here in CR - she's got to have time to go on surf trips and entertain our visitors!

Here's wishing an auspicious and fabulous 2007 to you all.

Labels: jewelry

All sorts of good news this weekend. My dengue is much improved, we enjoyed a visit from some trans-hemisphere drivers, and attended a snazzy fundraiser shindig on Saturday.

I'm finally feeling mostly human again. I still run out of energy rather quickly and have been sleeping about two or three hours more per night than I usually do, but at least most of the time I feel good, which is a big step in the right direction.

John Paul and Natalie are driving a big blue fj60 Landcruiser from Rhode Island to .... somewhere south of here (maybe Argentina). They've been on the road six months and were effusively thankful for the paucity of information that they could glean off of our site and a couple of emails from me about the journey itself. Its a little funny, every time someone gushes about how wonderful our site is, I feel a pang of guilt at how much info I've *intended* to post, but never got around to doing. Still, it is great to see people using the site to plan their own dreams. We almost missed seeing them entirely, as they read about my dengue episode and didn't want to intrude. We insisted they spend a night with us anyway and the four of us had a great time rehashing travel tales. Since any long-distance journey involves some level of mechanical breakdown, I spent a little qt helping fix a few minor things on their truck. Couldnt' figure out a repair on their window lifter, so I donated the one from Sandy so that John Paul would have an operational window. I can't believe he has put up with the broken one for as long as he has, that sort of minor but pernicious failure is the worst: A total breakdown forces you to attend to the problem, but something that simply annoys you day in and day out without justifying a complicated repair, that's the sort of thing that really drives you crazy. I also donated another couple of little bits to help with their door locks and the other window. It feels good to know that while the parts/repairs where minor to me, they will enjoy the change on an ongoing basis. The look of sheer pleasure on John Paul's face as he ran the window up and down was a great reminder of how easy it can be to help someone out, and how rewarding.

Which leads to an important and interesting conversation that we had regarding how travel helps remind us all of how much a difference it can make when people invest just a little bit of time or effort into helping others. We've all been the beneficiaries of various degrees of help from absolute strangers (and friends and family, of course!). We agreed that being out on the road is a constant reminder of just how easy it is to give or receive a little bit of kindness, and how much better the world is for the small kindnesses all around us. It was a much more pleasant chat than the ones we spent bemoaning the abhorrent ignorance that typifies the foreign relations policies of the US these days.

Another fringe benefit of having some travelers around was that they were willing to invest the modicum of energy necessary to take a few pictures of daily life. Of course, we should be better at taking more snaps of ourselves, but we aren't, so getting some pics from them gives us a chance to see both of our mugs on the blog here, not once, not twice, but THREE whole times. Didn't I tell you this was a good weekend? Well, it gets better! We even got a picture of us dressed up (a little) for the fundraiser on Saturday night. Exciting, no?

I'd love to say that we took our camera with us and got dozens of great pictures of ourselves and friends at the swanky Pinilla Academy charity fundraiser event at which BBA sponsored a corporate table, but we didn't take the camera. Sorry. There were some shutterbugs present, so there is a non-zero chance we'll get some pics up later, but you wouldn't want to hold your breath on that one. It was a fantastic event, replete with all the "society" folks of Tamarindo, if you can call anything in this relaxed little town "society", which you probably couldn't, if you had any notion of what real "society" is like... but I'm blissfully ignorant of the reality of blue-blooded hoity-toity society is like, so I'm going to stick with the notion that Saturday's event was the closest thing to a society gathering that we've yet seen in Tamarindo. Of course, it is Guanacaste: we had some mud issues to deal with and some last-minute "oops, someone forgot to do that" issues cropped up, but overall the event was a great time for all who attended and it seems that the auctions raised a bunch of money for the incipient non-profit private school for which the event was thrown. I took special pleasure in watching local ladies bidding against each other for some jewelry that Jocelyn Broyles donated to the event. I think one piece actually sold for more than it would have cost to buy retail! Which is always a fun affirmation of the appeal of Jocelyn's creations.

Sunday was a slow day. Despite drinking at a rate that can only be described as miserly, I was pretty worn out. Jocelyn was doing better than I, but still enjoyed a nice lazy morning. We reluctantly bid farewell to our new friends Natalie and John Paul as they loaded up to head southward, then Jocelyn spent some time figuring out how we are going to seat 10 or more people next thursday while I got some more work done on Louie. Sharp eyes will notice that the snorkel is finally on (drilling a 4" hole in the fender isn't any easier the second time around) and I've finally got the rear locker fully operational. Oh, big thanks to Soop for the map light that is finally not only installed, but also wired in! I'll spare you the details on the other very minor things I finished (12v power outlet, switch panel in the dash, some LED lights, driving lights switched by hi-beams), suffice it to say that for the first time since buying the new (to us) Cruiser, the list of things to do has actually gotten shorter every weekend instead of longer. Nothing motivates me to get work done on my own cruiser more than doing work on someone else's vehicle.

Labels: 4x4, expedition, jewelry, landcruiser, travel

Oooh. The blank page. It's so much easier to design jewelry than to write, if you ask me.

So you get invited to a wedding in DC, and what do you do but make plans to spend at least a week there, which, by the way, is not enough. That is, unless you are a super-tourist and you pop out of your hotel, freshly rested, showered and fed by 7 a.m. and can walk and stand for six or so hours at a time.

Now, if you're me and Steve, you are much more concerned with late-night socializing than with early-morning touring. 'Sides, it's freezing at 7 a.m. in DC. Not that I would actually know, but the windows felt cold from the inside where I was wearing my thoughtfully-provided robe and slippers and rummaging around the room looking for the Alka Seltzer.

Why, praytell, the Alka Seltzer? Well, when you check into your hotel, slightly inebriated (we were still behaving quite well, thank you) at 2:30 a.m. or so, they call the manager.

Thankfully, and much to our delight, they call the manager to explain to you in pleading and very submissive tones that the inn is full for the night (since it's already morning, we presume), but since you're here (probably not much to their delight) they have arranged for a room at a very nice neighboring hotel and they'll send you and your luggage right over in a cab.

Prudently sleeping until 10 a.m. (note once again, that this is not the recommended start time for you uber-tourists), we heeded the night-desk manager's recommendation to check out the view of the White House from the Hay Adam's rooftop patio. We got a lovely, piping hot, to-go cup of coffee from the formal dining room and waited a short minute for security to come walk us up to the roof.

They weren't kidding when they said, "View"! As you can see from the pics, we were looking down directly at the front of the White House. A pretty fantastic introduction to DC. The Potomac was in the background and I have to say, I felt a surge of history sweep over me. After taking a dozen or so pictures and talking to the security guard, we gathered our bags up and walked the short block back to the Sofitel. The day was blustery, but the clouds were clearing and it was staring to look like a picture-perfect day for sightseeing.

Our new room checked-into and thouroughly checked-out and compared to the Hay Adams: robes not as good, view much better; we put in calls to Keith and David and got ourselves out the door to have lunch right on the corner at Lou's Deli. A seasoned order-taker with less than a full head of teeth took our tourist-daft (and slightly late-night, sleep-deprived, maybe-had-to-much-to-drink) orders and we sat ourselves down on a sidewalk cafe table in the sun to eat and wait for David to catch up with us.

The sandwiches were delish and David got to us just in time to split mine with me -- David's a bean pole and seemed fine with the half-lunch, while Keith probably could have eaten two more sandwiches and still look like he did in college.

The wind gusting, the leaves blowing everywhere and the sun shining in a gorgeous blue-blue sky, we headed off towards the Mall: first stop, the White House. Or, actually, the ATM at the imposing BofA right before the White House. We spent the rest of the day gushing about the fabo weather, taking pictures, trying to absorb the true meaning of the monuments we were visiting, and generally having a tremendously perfect day. David had to leave us around 3:30 p.m. to get ready for the rehearsal dinner (he was one of the groomsmen) so Keith, Steve and I took in the Korean War Memorial and the Air and Space Museum. Keith grew up in the area, and was a wealth of information about everything we saw.

Keith left us around 5:00 p.m. to go buy a shirt and coat for a formal dinner with a family friend, but would drop in to our hotel room a couple of hours later to iron his new duds and get dressed. In the meantime, I took a nap and Steve indulged in a little nature TV. The two of us, feeling tired but hungry, took ourselves out to a low-key, but delicious Thai meal about 10 blocks from our hotel.

We capped off the night with a cocktail (thoughtfully brought to our room by a returning Keith) and the view from the 7th floor of the Sofitel. Then, deciding we were being old-fogies, walked down the block to a local pub and ordered ourselves some oysters on the half-shell (did I mention, muck like myself, Keith is always hungry?), some fried calamari and another round of drinks. We called it a night around 1:00 a.m., Keith slept on our floor until 2:30 a.m. when he had to go catch a redeye to Phoenix, and Steve and I proceeded to continue with our 2nd day of uber-lazy mode of touring, starting promptly at somewhere around 10:00 a.m.

In case you missed the subtle picture link above, you can see some pictures and some more text by clicking here.

*Editor's Note: the pictures aren't as good as we normally strive to present, but due to some cross-platform/cross-software glitches, things got complicated. Thus, in the interest of getting this done in a timely manner, we posted it as-is. Sorry about that.

Labels: jewelry, photo, travel, vacation, wedding

Even though we are slackers on the photograph front these days.... absolutely failing to share the beauty of both Tamarindo, Costa Rica and also The Bay Area, California... well, at least our friends take a minute to post images. That's something. And a good thing at that, because unless you are looking at jewelry or Tamarindo Real Estate, we have a terrible track record of not putting up any photos at all these days. Pitiful, really. But we intend to get better, honestly, we do. Of course, good intentions and a quarter will buy you 25 cents worth of candy, right?
Raining hard here today, by the way, absolutely pouring. Of course our Landcruiser is waiting for new bolts so that I can finish installing the radiator. One of the joys of doing your own auto repair in Tamarindo is that occasionally you have the pleasure of discovering that somewhere along the way somebody else has replaced the factory bolts with shorter ones... which didn't matter when they re-used the worn-down-to-wafer-thin bushings, but once you replace the bushings with radiator-saving new rubber... well, you end up with bolts that are too short. So you can either mount the radiator sans-bushings (and look forward to resplitting the top tank in the not-too-distant future) or you can wait a day or two until you get new bolts *sent* from an hour away (because the hardware store only sells SAE bolts, no metric).
In brief: get very wet on bicycle or drive Landcruiser hoping not to break very expensive radiator when you hit a water-filled crater in the road.
But Costa Rican land costs less than coastal California and we don't have rush hour traffic and the surf is 80+ degrees and I get to see parrots and monkeys just about every day. Gotta keep things in perspective.

Labels: Costa Rica, jewelry, photo, real estate, sunset, tamarindo

Finally made it back to sunny California. Two whole weeks with very little Costa Rican real estate, hardly any time spent making jewelry (though Jocelyn did get some fantastic work done on a whirlwind visit to Los Angeles), and plenty of time spent relaxing. We've enjoyed more than our fair share of delicious California beverages, plenty of great food, and most importantly- family and friends.

Of course, we'll be returning to Tamarindo shortly to dive right back into Costa Rican real estate and jewelry making... but for another day or two we'll just keep enjoying great weather, wonderful people, and a relaxing vacation.

Labels: california, jewelry, travel, vacation

Spring is almost here! Ok, spring isn't actually here at all, but it is probably almost there, if you are north of us. Enough geography, let's talk Jewelry- www.jocelynbroyles.com is updated with some new hand-made designs appropriate for spring, or any other season. Good stuff. Check it out.

Labels: jewelry

I moved my studio out of the house a couple of weeks ago and into a real live commercial space. I am enjoying leaving the house to go to work in the mornings and being in town. Langosta isn't very far from Tamarindo, but without a car, it seemed a long ways, and I rarely got into town during the day for more than a few minutes once or twice a week.

Now, I often run into work, taking the very long way so that it's my normal 50 minutes, sometimes stopping by Steve's office to say "Hi", which means I often also see Matt, Brian, Kate, Carrie and BC as well. That's about as many people as I'd see in a week, and that's all before work!

Then off to the studio, which is about two blocks (if there were such things here) east of Steve's office on the same street. I usually get in before the Home store opens, but once it does, I see the owner, Rob, his wife and their assistant Katie. My landlord is usually somewhere around, as are his workers.

If I run in, I take a dip in the pool before I start work. Not a bad deal! Then someone usually stops by, or I head into town for a trip to the grocery store or for lunch with Steve or a friend. A huge change in my daytime social life!

The studio itself is upstairs above a slick new bike shop and across the parking lot from the aforementioned Home store, a laundry and a sandwich shop. Upstairs, above these businesses used to be a gym, but the space is now being turned into apartments. Should be good for the neighborhood and good for my business in terms of increased traffic. Not that I'm running a retail space. I see clients in the new space, but don't want to be a "shop". A working studio with stock to show clients is what I want, and so far, exactly what I've got!

There's a nice grassy area downstairs in front of the sandwich shop and Caly likes to play with the neighborhood dogs. It's a great place to take a little break and let her get some fresh air. She's been spending all her days with me in the studio and I think we both like it!

Labels: jewelry

I've been getting lots of guff for not responding to emails more quickly. My apologies as my server was down for nigh on two weeks, then I moved my studio to a commercial space. My computer did not make the move with me and I find that I lack the time and sometimes motivation to log on after I get home from work.

I sketched a quick schedule of my week for those aforementioned guff givers and at Steve's behest am posting it here. We love living here and wouldn't change our lifestyles for anything,(okay, my lifestyle for a week of no construction anywhere in town) but we do believe that perhaps our level of commitments is lost on those who don't live in a resort town where everyone is either visiting us for business or visiting us for pleasure. Both of which amount, generally, to the same thing. More damn boat rides!

Jocelyn's week:

Monday: Ran for 50 minutes, went to the studio, had lunch for about two hours with a client of Steve's who is now a friend of mine. Back to the studio then home for a quiet and quick dinner with Steve.

Tuesday: Studio for the day. Home early for take out pizza and mindless DVDs in bed!

Wednesday: 50-minute run, dip in the pool, at the studio until 1:00 p.m., then on the catamaran until sunset. Dinner at Dragonfly until 9 p.m. or so, then on to a new bar in town. Home before midnight!

Thursday: Into the studio, lunch with Steve where I learned about what projects he's got going. Short run home with Caly, quiet Thanksgiving dinner with unexpected, but thoroughly enjoyed guest. To bed around 11 p.m.

Friday: Standard run, dip in the pool, work at the studio, lunch from the grocery store, out to cocktails at 5 p.m. with a client of Steve's, then onto dinner. Home, thank goodness, by about 8:30 and straight into bed.

Saturday: Up at 6 a.m. (construction loud of course) and finally getting to email. Will go into the studio for a few hours, clean the house (I had to fire my maid), do the laundry, then most likely go out to dinner with "the crew" and then on to a close friend's 40th bday party at a local bar. Party doesn't start till 9 p.m. and will likely go later than we should. Oops! Forgot to mention that I need to make a cake for 40+ people somewhere in all of that!

Sunday: blissfully unplanned at the moment, but I'm sure something will come up!

Monday: Rinse, repeat.

Labels: jewelry

In addition to all the fun we have playing with friends (we'll be repeating our normal Sunday dinner later, Caly is very excited)we also work some. Steve's work results in many photographs, but most of them aren't all that exciting to look at, here is a beautiful home for sale down the coast. Part of Steve's other jobs include photographing Jocelyn Broyles Jewelry.

Sometimes it is a fun mix of hobby and honey-do. He's always looking for tips on jewelry photos, so please feel free to opine. Just remember, studio materials aren't an easy purchase here... think "do it yourself" not "run to the camera store" and you'll be on the right track.

Labels: jewelry

After two months of hard work to get ready, and a little more than a week with very little sleep and long, long days of work, Jocelyn finally wrapped up her first major jewelry show. The number of buyers present was not as high as she had hoped for, but feels that the show went really well anyhow.
Keep your eyes peeled for future shows- she's thinking San Francisco later this year.

Labels: jewelry, travel

With a million and ten things to do at his own job today, Steve somehow managed to spend some time shooting a bunch of jewelry shots (in between cellphone conversations with clients and sellers) for the soon-to-be-revamped JocelynBroyles.com website. Shooting with a digital SLR makes the job so much easier! And focusing on someone else's business is almost relaxing compared to grinding away at the wall of inefficiency that we sometimes have to deal with around here. Not quite a day off, but when work days often consist of going to the beach, rest days can be busy too.

Labels: jewelry, photo

Spent some time hanging out at Powell's Books today. All the fun of shopping, but I didn't actually spend anything because living down here... well, sometimes shipping things down is not that easy. The cool thing is that they've got a wishlist, so at least I could keep track of the titles that intrigued me the most. Of course, I'd really just love some time in a library. Living in paradise has its ups, but so far it doesn't have public libraries.
We've made little progress on our continued house-building project. Our friend/architect did a beautiful rendering of the front section of the house- containing the entry, garage, and Bb's studio. We love it. Now all we've got to do is figure out what we are doing with the rest of the house, engineer the whole thing, find a competent builder that we can afford, obtain the necessary permits... and start building. Just as simple as that. Ugh.
Bb is out selling her jewelry at a local fair. Caly is napping. Another exciting Saturday.

Labels: jewelry

We've been talking about heading down to Nosara for quite some time to explore the possibilities for Bb's jewelry, so Tuesday we finally decided to make the drive. Funny how around here things seem so much further away- it only took us about 2.5 hours to drive down, and for the most part the road was in good shape. Yet for some reason we've put this off for months.
The weather was beatiful the whole way down, high patchy clouds kept it cool and recent rains made the whole world look fresh and new. Sandy has been having some alternator/battery problems, so this was a great opportunity for Steve to fiddle with some different things and trouble shoot. By the time we hit Nosara he had finally gotten the system working well, which was great!
Nosara itself hasn't changed much in the last two years (some of the same places are still under construction). We were relieved to discover that the 'rampant growth' of which we've heard was somewhat exaggerated. We were also happy to realize that we are both awfully glad that we settled in Tamarindo instead of Nosara. Not to say that it isn't a beautiful place, it is! Not to say people shouldn't visit, they should! But living there seems, to us, a very boring proposition. The town just isn't much of a town. And that road.... dear heavens! We were following in the track of a grader that had clearly passed within 1 day, yet the road surface was still bumpy enough that Steve finally got out and aired down to about 20 psi in an attempt to keep our teeth from rattled right out of our heads.
After eating a great lunch at a cute little deli, we did a wave check (large, but mushy) and poked around a little bit, then headed back home. The drive back was slightly rainy and generally very pleasant. As we hit one of our favorite areas near Tamarindo (long views of rolling hills and fields) we were treated to that beautiful golden light that makes everything look hazy and slow and like childhood memories of summertime. Just beautiful.

Labels: 4x4, beach, Costa Rica, day trip, jewelry, landcruiser, sunset

While Bb is working hard on her jewelry today, Steve is doing as little as possible. Nasty sinus infection. If you think being sick up in the States when it is cold out is lousy... try it when it is hot and humid. Ugh. Feels like someone inflated choice spaces in my skull up to about 110psi. Lousy. And hot. And sweaty.
But! all is not bad! Steve's Dad sent down a scan of a photo that he took several months ago that shows Steve surfing. Sorta. Mostly it shows him about to drop in on a mushy wave. But for the moment it is all we've got and looks a heck of a lot more fun than sitting around the house with a head full of hurt. At least it started raining this afternoon so the temperature dropped down to comfortable. And the rain sounds great pattering out on the roof, very relaxing. Oh- Happy Independance Day! Hope yours was wonderful.

Labels: jewelry, photo, surf, weather

High Tide was at 9:27 am today. We didn't go surfing. We had coffee, mango, apple and toast on our patio instead and enjoyed the first sunny morning in Tamarindo that we've had in quite some time. Bb is off doing jewelry while Steve is doing email and (mostly) putzing about on the web, enjoying the fact that we can dialup from home, which is a relatively new phenomenon for us- we only just finally had our phone installed two weeks ago, after waiting a mere three months. Three months is actually a very quick response time for the phone company here in Tamarindo. Some pals of ours just got their phone and they've been waiting nearly a year.

Labels: food, jewelry, weather