This is for everyone not familiar with the fabulous, one and only spiny fruit: the rambutan! Aaron had them first in Thailand and introduced me to them…probably via the Uwajimaya store in Seattle. We were surprised during our 5 hour shuttle ride across the country to see rambutan fruit stands along the road. In the
MACAWS!! We saw scarlet macaws on our very first day! Think about when the Blue Angels fly in formation…that’s what it was like. We were buzzed by a flock of big colorful birds. That was a pretty incredible welcome to this new place!! It’s official: We are really traveling now! It was one long day,
A super short post as we’re in the final, final stages of packing and cleaning so we can leave on Friday, but I couldn’t resist this – we just wrote the check and registered for an African safari in May in Tanzania!!! There’ll be a lot more on it when we get close, but one
We’re only 1 week from closing up the house and heading to Atlanta! Then, on November 6th, the trip truly begins with our flight to Costa Rica!!! We practiced packing our backpacks today and, well, let’s just say that we seem to have juuuust a bit too much stuff. Time to pare down… who really
We’re in the somewhat agonizing, but wonderfully liberating, stage of crazily packing for the trip. With the help of a bunch of our friends and my mom (thank you, thank you, thank you!!!), most of our possessions are either now in boxes or storage. Still more to go, but the house sure does look bigger