it all seemed like such a good idea.....

by the way, munchie is laughing hysterically in that video, he tends to shriek when he does =)


holy crap we just got back today from the most ill fated trip i have ever been on (well minus the camping trip exactly a year ago, i think we will no longer travel on memorial day) we got invited to go down to matapalo with another couple for the night. thinking great idea! we've never been that far south, amazing surf for jeff (he caught his longest wave ever) lets go check it out. all begins good, dane does ok in the car

get to puerto jimmenez (about 30 min from matapalo) and stop for a bite to eat, kate points out to john that their daughter lily def has a fever, which i should have known then..... being the ever prepared mom i offer her some kid motrin. lily starts to feel better right away so we figure no big deal. do the long bumpy ride out to matapalo, the beach is absolutely beautiful! one of the prettiest i've been to here, white sand, crystal clear water. we run into a ton of people from our area so i get to meet more, which is nice. everything is going so well...

the boys get in from surfing and go to find us a place to stay, which when we all get there is where the trip goes south. basically we paid $60 to stay in an unfinished house. we quickly find out that there is NO ELECTRICITY in matapalo (why?? who knows) and are told that the place is low on water.... there are three of these weird buildings so we have a 'house' to oursleves. i go lay down with dane, noticing the lovely sarongs used as hangings over the window to keep the bugs out (really, you think that works?) luckily there is a mosquito net over our bed that is covered in stained sheets. all of you know i'm not what you would call an outdoorsy girl, so i'm not so happy. jeff leaves to go out to surf again...

dane and i are awakened by kate yelling jessica... i'm thinking oh shit this isn't good, and the next thing she says is i've got an emergency situation, i've been bitten by a snake!!!! there are a few very highly poisonous snakes in costa rica which happen to fit the description of the one that bit her. so the guy who owns the place gives us direcitons to the nearest hospital, i grab all of our stuff upstairs, and we haul ass. dane screams the whole way, and are lucky enough that when the guy who owns the place called the hospital they sent an ambulance....

we follow the ambulance to the hospital (which we would have NEVER found on our own) kate stayed in the car with me not wanting to leave lily who is sound asleep. when we get there i stay in the car with the kids and she goes in, i can here the boys coming in the car about 2 minutes before they arrive due to how fast they are driving.

turns out kate was bit by a mica (mee-kha) boa type snake and she is totally fine. since we are back in puerto jimmenez we decide to stay there. super crappy hotel, no hot water, our room reeks of mold but it had a/c and windows. lily is progressively going down hill, and we find out in the morning that her fever wouldn't break and she had been throwing up....

(wow this is long!) so to wrap it up, we came home this morning and dane screamed almost the whole way. now i am waiting to get sick......

i have a few picts (camera started to go dead, i'll post later)