Hola again

I know I will be seeing you all soon, but I thought I would give some updates from Costa Rica. I am still having a blast, but I cant wait to come home at the same time. Weird huh? Anyway, My Spanish is not that great. While I was living with a Costa Rican family I was forced to remember stuff and I was able to understand them after repetition usually, but since I have left the family, I have not needed to try that much, so I am being lazy and wont be able to speak or understand squat when I come home. Right now I am staying at the last place that I will before I come home. it is called The La Selva research station, it is an educational program for tropical studies. There are lots of other students and scientist doing research here. Since the last time I posted, we have stayed at a few ranchos, and Haciendas (ranches, and farms) they have been pretty cool place. Highlights have been a canopy tour, which is basically riding a zip line through the rain forest. This was very awesome I had some amazing views. Also we hiked to a beautiful waterfall that I jumped off into the water below, there is a great picture of this. A few other great hikes and nature walks have been fantastic as well. I am learning so much about rainforests, and renewable energy we have gone to a few different types of power plants, wind, geothermal, hydro, and a few places we have stayed have used solar power. Costa Rica is great, pretty much every town and place we stay is recycling like crazy and using organic food. And I have hardly seen any incandescent light bulbs. There are dogs everywhere, which is very fun for me, of course. I am not enjoying my physics class as much. There is some math that I am just not used to. But it is alright there are some braniacs here to help me out. Anyway, I cannot wait to see you all. It sounds like there has been a lot of fun and new things happening while I have been here. Happy Birthday to everyone that had a birthday. Congratulations on the promotion Dad. Well, I love you all and I will see you soon.

Devon

Memorial Day

I just want to make sure that I got this right...Grandpa got beat by all 3 of his grandaughters last night? It was a lot of fun, maybe that could be a new tradition, because I am sure we will all be better bowlers if we could practice at least once a year. Hey ma, will you post some of the pictures you took?
P.S. Devon and Rachel we missed you!

Umm, I'm not in Costa Rica either and I don't have a date any time soon and come to think of it I haven't received any awards... but I do have a really cute baby. If Trevor is in Madrigals does that mean we don't get to see the Jazz hands anymore? That was the highlight of this past Christmas, Madrigals hardly dance at all. I think instead of having a soccer tournament on memorial day we should have a four-square tournament...any takers?

Congrats Trevor

Hey Trevor, congrats on Madrigals!!!!!!!! We are so proud!

Memorial Day

Hey guys what are we doing for memorial day? Soccer tourny?

Not as cool as Devon

So, I'm not in Costa Rica, but I got an award for outstanding sophomore in vocal music, and i'm going on a date on saturday. so today was pretty cool

Hola mi familia

I am having tons of fun in Costa Rica I miss you all and I wish I was there for mothers day. Anyway, I might try to figure out how to post some pictures so you can see what is going on. Basically, it is AMAZING and I am getting tan and learning spanish. I am in Santa Ana right now living with a Costa Rican family. It was strange at first but now it is really nice. I was at the beach in Manuel Antonio for the first week and we are leaving Santa Ana on Sunday. Everyone in the group is really cool. We are having fun and the professors are really nice. Costa Rica is so beautiful I cannot even describe the beautiful scenery. Everyday feels surrealn I cannot believe I am actually here. We have gone to a couple of Volcanoes, nature preserves, and even a waterfall garden. Anyway, Everything is great and I am healthy and safe so no worries. I don´t really know who all looks at this webpage but I think its a great idea. I love you all and will see you soon.

Devon

great idea Audrey. Thanks to everyone for the super Mother's Day gifts. Yesterday when I was reading to Sydney she said "You"re a good grandma." Loved it. I feel great today-no more cold. bikerbabe.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the Hull and Bell and Heath Mom's. You are the best. Mothers day just keeps getting better and better.All I do is sit around and play with cute, funny, wonderful babies. Faith, Mia, Sydney, Austin and Caden are the best!!!! I love you all and teh great Dad's too.