Guest blog post by Gaetano Jauregui

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My Hubby wanted to do a guest blog post from his journal from 3 days ago..Enjoy!

Sep 13^th,

My whole family has been so wiped out.  We took the last 2 days to just rest around the house.  Yesterday mainly at the beach and boy am I burnt to prove it!  Yesterday was a very rough day.  The kids (Mateo and Havah) have been really sick with a fever and terrible cough.  My back has been flared up and everybody has diarrhea from being in a new environment and new food, water etc.  I’m trying super hard to not let anyone drink the tap water.  That means a lot of purifying water and trips to the store for bottled water. 

Yesterday was especially scary.  I got back from the market with Toby and as soon as I pulled up the drive way Abby came frantically calling me holding Havanah!  I looked at her and she was passed out, pail faced and all her limbs were pulled tight.  I guess she walked outside to look for me and than screamed and Abby grabbed her, than Abby picked her up, her eyes rolled back in her head and her body ceased up.  We had the neighbor watch our other kids and Abby and I rushed to the emergency clinic and explained what happened to the guy as best we could since he did not speak English.  Alex the owner of the house we are staying at met us there and translated for us.  Praise God, she was OK.  She has had a fever the last 3 days and we think her being out in the sun and being wiped out, something set it off and she had a seizure.  It freaked us out and we had a hard night that night.   

Sleeping has been difficult for me here.  I can’t seem to shut my brain off.  I am also always concerned about having a house we can’t really lock up, being in a super isolated part of the country and not knowing anyone.  Animals and insects get into the house all the time since it is an open air home.  Super cool but hard for me to get used to.  The howler monkeys are really loud and kind of freaky sounding.  Bats fly in and out often.  We had a raccoon come in 2 nights in a row.  Titus had a ginormous spider crawl up his leg down by the water the other day.  4 iguanas play in the back yard in the mid day sun.  It is just a trip.  What else can I say?

My next short-term project here is finding and buying a car.  Which will not be an easy feat since we are on the tip of the peninsula.  It is doable though.  I will need to arrange timings to see vehicles, the lawyer to make the docs and record the exchange, have money wired from my account to a trusted friend in Jaco, him to come with me and draw the cash from his account…  On the story goes.