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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Charlie Brown on ABC





Things I am grateful for... I have mentioned that here in Costa Rica they have ABC, NBC, and CBS... Thank the lord. Because i love the Amazing Race. But tonight i got to see "Charlie Brown Christmas".. It is one of my favorites, not only is the music awesome. But It reminded me how commerical, Christmas gets in our world. Especially if you come to Costa Rica, where Christmas stuff has been up since the beginning of October... Christmas is about Jesus Christ coming to our world, so humbly... So thank you ABC, for the reminder... Also i am so thankful that i get to see my family in 18 days..But who is counting...

That's all for now....

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Christmas tree time









Hey everyone,

Just wanted to put up some pictures of our Christmas Tree.. It is 4 feet tall, and very cute. I packed our own ornaments, and our landlord provided this tree.. It sort of looks like a charlie brown tree, but we love it!!!






The next picture is of Andy, i wanted to show you the face that i see so often. This is how he looks while sitting in Phonetics class trying to say some Spanish Phrase, or this is the face he shows when the Hawkeyes are losing!!
Actually, this is just a funny picture and i wanted to put it on our blog.
The last one is of me, on one of the days when it gets cold here. I am trying to stay warm, with laundry that just came out of the dryer.
Anyway, We will be coming home for Christmas on December 14th and we just cant wait...
See you all then. Love Chelsea






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Monday, November 12, 2007

How many hairs do you have left?











Let me start off by telling this story. My mom told it to me, and i thought that it was both inspiring and cute.

A woman woke up one morning to find that she had 3 hairs left on her whole head. She said out loud" Great, today I can make a braid". The next morning she woke up to find only 2 hairs on her whole head. She stated out loud "great, now i can have pig tails". The next morning she woke up to find only 1 hair left on her whole head, she then replied "Great, now i can make a pony tail." The next day she woke up she was BALD. She then stated"Great, now i don't have to do my hair......
The point of the story, is to be happy with whatever comes your way. To not complain..
Now that i have told that story, i will now lead you into one of the craziest trips I have ever been on..

Andy and I and 4 of our good friends here decided to leave the city this last weekend and go to Manuel Antonio, it is usually a 3 hour trip from our city...
I told this story to everyone on the way down, and they were kind of laughing and just having fun with my awesome story.. Little did we know that we were all going to be "Bald" after the trip.
First off, I told you that it takes 3 hours to get their, well we finally arrived at our Hotel 7 hours after we left. This would be due to the Bridge Picture. A 18 wheeler was driving over this CRAZY bridge and its front wheel, collapsed through.. YES, that is crazy. What is crazier is that we were only 20 minutes from our hotel. We waited for like 3 hours, and finally decided to drop off our RENT-A-Car in an auto shop, hall our luggage over the bridge and take a taxi... We had this idea, and so did the rest of the 2 miles of cars waiting to cross. So needless to say it was Insane...

We finally got to the motel, took a swim in the pool and tried to go to sleep.... Not knowing the next hair was about to go... Andy and I woke up at 1:45 to hear some Woman calling for her husband. She was lost, and had Broken her arm.She was from North America and some how fell at the restaurant and broke her arm. So i woke up, made Andy go out to help her. It was crazy, then we hear the ambulance pull up and she and her husband go to the hospital... Well, guess who returned at 3:45 am...Ohh yes, this time her husband was yelling at the taxi driver in English, that he had NO MONEY. He wanted the taxi driver to leave, and then return tommorow, so that he could pay him.... So, I instantly think, this Spanish taxi driver, probably has no idea what they are trying to say. I then asked Andy to go pay the taxi driver.Because it is 3:45 and i am exhausted... Finally we went to sleep...

Saturday came and we all went swimming in the ocean, it was sort of cold. But the group we went with was all having fun..... then we decide to try to find a bowling alley or something...

We found the coolest bowling alley..
It was two alleys, non-mechanical... We set up our own pins.. IT was So FUNNNNN.

And it was free...

So saturday, we lost no hairs..

Lastly we woke up Sunday, we all went out to take a nice swim, and i got stung by a JELLYFISH...

I never have been stung before, and it really felt like i had dried shaved, or got really bad razor burn.

Andy bought me a lime, and i rubbed it on my skin.. Then it was like nothing had even happened.


The rest of the day, Andy kept saying " Chelsea fightin the JELLIES" off of finding Nemo..


Then we drove home.

So i wasn't Bald coming home, and i say it was worth losing all the hairs. IT was crazy fun...

Very interesting...

Those other pictures are of some flowers and a crocodile, we saw on the way there...
Also Andy doing a flip in the pool.