Yesterday, after spending the entire day buying a car IN SPANISH, we came back to our hotel room, ready to kick up our heals and relax. Then I received a message that the beach house I rented for my baby shower next week in Florida was hit by a “cyclone bomb” and half of it was washed away. It was the only house among a long stretch of beach that experienced damage and when I say damage, I mean end-of-the-world-climate-change-is-FOR-REAL damage. Click here to see a photo. We have family coming from across the US to stay in this beach house and celebrate our new little one, and now the beach house looks like something out of an Armageddon movie.

So we got really bummed out. Both for the owner of the property and for us. It kind of felt like the universe was striking us with a big unfriendly bolt of lightning. I couldn’t help but ask myself, “What did I do to deserve this?”

Fast-forward to 6 AM the next morning, the new beach house for the baby shower is booked and we are packing our bags to head to Nosara, finally. Then we receive a message that they are paving the road just outside the door to the cottage we booked for the next month and its really dusty and we might want to sweep it out each morning before we hit the beach. WTF? Four hours later when we arrived, sure enough, there was a back ho digging just outside the property. So we signed up for a month of this. We contacted Airbnb to see if we could somehow get out of this agreement (doesn’t look good) and we put our bags inside and went for that much-needed walk on this beautiful beach that we have been so longing to reach. On the way to the beach, we recalled a series of unfortunate events that we experienced in Namibia, and how at that time we realized that sometimes when traveling you just have a series of really bad days, and then the really good days follow. We both agreed that after the past few months of craziness, things are about to get REALLY GOOD.

Then we took this walk on the beach with only our little Polaroid Snap to capture the moment.

And we saw all of the new friends we had made during our last trip here in the green season. And we went in the water and body surfed and splashed around and laughed when Antonio pointed out that I am so awkward on land right now but still so nimble in the water. And then we walked as the sun lowered to the horizon, and realized that already, it was REALLY GOOD.

Magic 38/365, Home, Playa Guiones, Nosara, Costa Rica