A few nights out with the gang

As our time at the Casa winds up we still continue to enjoy everything that this place offers. Unfortunately as time goes on we are starting to see some of the volunteers we started with beginning to leave. Recently we said goodbye to two girls from Spain - Emi and Xaro who started the same weekend we did.

The girls were great value and we spent many a funny night out with them on the precious few days that we get to leave the Casa. We celebrated in what is pretty well our typical Wednesday or Saturday night out....

Happy hour at the Sundog, onto Joseyn´s for a cheap feed, and then off to the nightclub at the Hotel Backpackers (which raises money for the Casa). As always one of the highlights of our nights is when they play what has become know as ¨the volunteer song¨. It´s a Spanish song (so I don´t know the name) and when it comes on all the Volunteers get up on the bar, link arms and belt out the words. Before and after usually involves Lyds and I getting better and better at dancing to the grooves of Reggeton and other Central American Latino music (We haven´t gone far enough south yet to tackle Salsa music).

As we said goodbye to the girls we said hello again to a former Volunteer Co-Ordinator - Tita. She recently got married in Spain and as part of her honeymoon, she and her husband came back to the Casa. Lyds and I shared our house with Tita when we first arrived here before she headed back to get married, so it was great to see her again. Tita worked at the Casa for 2 years before she left so she´s a big part of the place. For her return we had a special dinner and a ¨mock¨wedding at the Backpackers which was a lot of fun for everyone.

With our own time at the Casa winding up, Lyds and I also took a few hours out recently to make the trip to Rio Frio. It´s a little river about a relaxing 1.5 hours walk from the Casa. The walk was fantastic as it winds it way through the jungle, cow pastures, little local villages, metre long grass and open fields. At the river we bascially had a nice little spot all to ourselves to just relax and chill the day away. We love our time with our boys, but it was certainly nice to get away for the day and see more of the surrounding countryside.

Here are some recent snaps


If you can´t see the above gallery, check out the link here - Some recent pics