Our dear friends Bob and Carol from Nashville made their annual November trip here, but this time they also brought Carol's son TJ and his new bride with them. This year made for their third trip to visit us here, and it was great that they brought the kids with them. Bob & Carol are the reason we started our annual Thanksgiving feast for everyone so they need to make sure they come every year to keep the tradition going.
This is TJ and his wife Jennifer - Carol gave them this trip as a Christmas present, so we needed to make sure they had a great time. By the time they left, I think that they were already looking forward to a return trip.
This year we did something a little different by taking a couple of days and stayed in Jaco at a very nice condo. Jaco, is probably one of the best known towns on the Central Pacific Coast, and is a little over an hour drive from our home in Atenas. Now, I am not really a big fan of Jaco anymore because of what a bunch of greedy developers did to it. When Bob and I first came to check out Costa Rica in 2006, Jaco was a great place to go. Then the American and European developers came in and started building hi-rises without any regard for the environment and the lack of infrastructure the town had to support this degree of construction. Would you believe that there are new condo's there that do not have water, and there are skeletons of condos that were never finished. - I just had to put my two cents in on this one because what they did really disgusts me!
Anyway, we made sure we had a good time in Jaco, and TJ and Jennifer really enjoyed everything about it. In addition there are really some nice sites to see there. Below, are some of the pictures we took there.
Relaxing by the pool
The pool from our condo
Check out that Sunset
Well, it was time to leave Jaco and head back to Atenas. On the way, we stopped for lunch at this great place up on a mountain - The driveway to get to it is almost a mile long and there is a stone wall all the way up. The restaurant has some amazing mountain and ocean views.
When we returned home, we only had a couple of days to get ready for our annual Thanksgiving Dinner. This event keeps growing every year. Take a look at the festivities.
It's obvious that everyone had a good time, and we enjoyed a lot of our Costa Rica friends. We had about 36 guests for dinner. Unfortunately, Bob and Carol and TJ and Jennifer had to head back to Tennessee the next day. But, I'm sure they will be coming back next year at the same time. And, it's a sure bet that the kids will be back soon. We always enjoy them here, and they don't really have to wait until November to come back.
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