haley+gabe

Haley’s birthday went great and she was grateful for all of the birthday wishes and for the delicious pizza and wine dinner in Popoyo and for the excellent sunset/moonrise and all of the other things that made it a great birthday.

That mean's 33 in NBA in case you never knew.

The day after Haley’s day was our last day in Popoyo and we took full advantage by exploring a bit, surfing a bit and enjoying the beautiful place some more.

I know you are bored of Popoyo sunset, but I promise this is the last one

That night we packed up and got ready for a long day of buses. The travel day started at 549am when we walked out our front door and ended at 830 pm when we walked into the luxurious Casa de Peter and Nim in Atenas. Lucky for us there was a hot shower and a comfortable bed awaiting us. So now we are here living in luxury and eating up delicious meal after delicious meal prepared by my Uncle Peter. Our sicknesses transformed a bit, so now I have a sinus infection and Haley has a nagging cough. We’re planning on a doctor visit tomorrow if we’re not feeling better. Now we’re going to ride bikes to town and then come back and swim and then hopefully watch Monday night football and eat more of Peter’s delicious cooking.

View from our room in Atenas. Don't hate.

Happy birthday my angel. I love you.

Yes, it’s my beautiful wife’s birthday and for once there are no big surprises or mystery guests, just a nice luxurious day in Popoyo. Banana, Pineapple smoothie with coffee for breakfast, maybe El Toro restaurant for lunch with a dip and lounging by the pool,hopefully the clouds will cooperate for another excellent sunset for our beach run (if we feel like it) and then Rana Roja for dinner and wine. Maybe some hammock time mixed in by the beach too. I love you my darling.

these dogs were running very fast

In other, much less important, news.. we went to a nice natural  swimming pool last night with a sandy bottom sitting directly in front of the waves and watched sunset. We are feeling much better, almost all healed up from the flu or whatever it was. I surfed more. My surf buddy Francois from France came over last night and said goodbye. He even spelled out ‘bye bye’ in pieces of leaves on our doorstep when we weren’t home. A very sweet Frenchy.

sunset at our pool by the beach last night

tuesday night sunset for reference

Sorry to post twice in two days, feel free to ignore. Just wanted to see if anyone had a vote on which sunset was better between last night and tonight. Also wanted to say that my new friend Francois and I went to the Popoyo reef break today and had lots of fun surfing (a left finally). Other than that, I’m getting much better (still surfing twice/day) and Haley seems like she’s seen the worst of it too. This morning she said she was dying and I don’t hear her saying that any more, so that seems better.. now pick which is better.. tonight?…

tonight 1

or last night?

last nite 1

last nite 2

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