Yer never too old to be seen with Santa.

Santa was singing in the mall parking lot with the Symphony.

Christmas night sky from our deck

Dan set the camera so we could all be in pic, Christmas dinner time.

THIS WAS TAKEN JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS DINNER, ABOUT
5 20PM, SUNSET SOOOOOO PRETTY AND SHARING IT WITH PEOPLE I LOVE.

Dan caught this rooster fish at Coco on Christmas day.

Dan caught this rooster fish at Coco on Christmas day.

THE CARTER'S CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE COLD JACUZZI

Erin at the edge of the deck without railings, not bad a a girl who is scared of heights.

Bob Dan and I checking out our new condo. This unit is a few floors above us....what a view!!

Dan and I going to try and catch a few waves.This is our beach at Tamarindo.

Locals coming down to buy off the fisherman.

Bob is our local guitarist and entertainer.

Us gals learned to pole dance on a sqaure teak pole, slivers galore and did we laff.
Vi is my gf on the left who I am renting from until our place is built, she graduated from RPN trainingw ith me in 1970 and we have remained friends since.

Bob giving us one of his best dirty looks.

Bob hasn't missed giving me a dozen roses on our wedding date for 34 years, such a romantic nice man he is:)

Bobbi and I at our 34 anniversary party, celebrated with new friends and family in CR:)

Nice to have family time:)

She ain' heavy....she's ma sista!!!!

Erin was very happy to have us in CR to share Christmas with her family, she had us here 8 yr ago and now we will be here every yr for Christmas, we had a blast that day and night.

Boy Dan has a gift with the guitar and his voice. I am very impressed, he sounds awesome!

Ok, the goodies are made, the sweat is pouring, it was about 35 degrees while our friends in Canada were having one of the coldest years in a long time. C'est la vie!!!!

So as we prepared for the surprise 34h anniversary party for Bob and I, my kid sister Erin and our son Danny did a mock practise of us going down the aisle. Erin wore her mosquito net as a veil and her little flashing ears and held the centrepiece I made for Dan of wildflowers around us.

Well today is an exciting day and tomorrow will be even better. Our most favourite person in the world is on his way here. Nope its not Santa. Its our son Danny. He left Kelowna today to fly to Vancouver and leaves Vancouver tomorrow in morning and we will pick him up at Liberia at 730pm.

We are so excited......

My sista she moved to CR

When Erin moved to CR in 2000 we all felt kind of homesick for her.
My older brother Wayne aka Beaner who is a talented musician made up this song but my camera battery died just as I was taking it.

The song goes:

My sista she moved to CR
I go see her someday
She like the sun ya
I like the snow ya
We both like the rain

She dance so hard she very crazy
I wonder sometime bout her brain
She shake her red head very funny
She sings "I'm a Medeterrian Lady"

There are several more verses but can't recall all the words so if anyone reading knows them please add them in the comment section.Tnx.

Randy and Berts in infinity pool being silly!

We said our byes to Erin and quietly took a taxi back to our hotel .This is our last night here together, doing what we loved best....... watching the sunset.

It was the day I had my "AHA" moment when I decided I had to convince Bob to buy and move here partime as it was sooo stress free.


He was convinced in 15 seconds, quit his new consulting job and we came back a few weeks later to buy.

It was hard for Erin to say good bye and see this fun time come to an end..

.she misses her family allot,

but guess what....

Bob and I decided to buy here and live here for 7 or 8 months of the year so we can do it all over again!!!!!

Our last day at this lovely beach house. Thanks Daniel and Joanne for being so kind to lend it to us. What bloody awesome memoirs we made:)

Locals waiting for the sunset.

The locals load their little boats just before sunset and go fishing all night. no life jackets....lots of hard work.

Life as it sound be...but Ron is missin his wife and kids.

We felt our hearts warm watching these guys, who have been friends since childhood, cavort and play in the ocean. It removed all of our stresses sharing this trip with family and good friends. Wasn't it fun???

This monkey got real mad at us for making so much noise he tried to out holler us, he was eating these yellow flowers in the trees. Right by us in the pool.

Oh yes, back to selling millions of seashells. We wanted to demonstrate their versatility so maybe you'd take home a few thousand to family and friends. They work wonderful as cataract protectors while the water is reflecting the sun into your eyes and burning holes in your retina!!!

We performed ballet and synchronized swimming in the infinity pool and were stars for a second. We couldn't stop laffing but everyone needs to play like we did!!!

OK, this is at Erin's friend beach house. Randy was sleeping and fearful of sun burning his nipples so invented a new nipple protection, no one was using these old seashells anyhow and if someone can become a millionaire selling SMURFS why can't people buy these versatile nipple protectors???

Ron tried a hair transplant but the specialist was drunk and it ended up on his chin, but isn't he cute:)

While my brother Ron was sleeping we made him a special brekkie for his 50th birthday.

This is what happened when I fell down a gravel hill, ow ow ow. the salt water in ocean hurt like hell but it helped to heal me:)

Well you know in the Deans family you can't be outdone.

Were always playing..."oh thats nothin!!!"

So Ron needed to cross the road as a turtle as locals respect and slow down for their turtles but someone almost drove over Ron.

This is the road south of our place in Tamarindo goin to Erin's friends beach house they lent us for three days. This road crosses five rivers so in rainy season you can't drive it. What a blast we had.

This is Erin's Rav SUV.

Another nice sunset in CR. Each day the locals and the tourists walk to the beach and sit and wait till the sunsets. Then it is dark dark dark. People go to bed early here. This beach is down near Nicoya, near Mel Gibsons place.

But when we went to Mel's for a beer his securit$y guards stopped us as Paris Hilton was there....really....

This is my brother Ron walking on the black sand beach, the sand was sooo hot and sooo black. And below is my sister Erin wearing a wig and presenting us all with CR gifts,she really is cute but had sun burned lips:)..and the chlorine in the pool bleached her hair!

Honestly, he hadn't even had a drink....I think I will publish this in the Flin Flon Daily reminder!!

Now you know why we had sore faces from laffing!

This truly is a crazy boy from Flin Flon, he is nuts thru and thru!!

Another CR sunset, this pic is kind of fuzzy but it was a pretty sunset.

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This is my families associate brother Randy.
Randy grew up in Flin Flon too.

His life was allot like ours and he hung out with my younger brothers.
My mom loved Randy and Randy loved my mom.
Randy was a pall bearer for my mom.

Randy's wife Pearl died of MS when she was very young and Randy did a bloody awesome job of raising their daughter Rachelle who was about 11 at the time.

Randy is one of the best looking people I know.
You see him modelling for Gap jeans with his strong muscles and tanned skin and the zipper undone just enough...

............he is a funny funny funny guy who makes peope laff. He had most the beach laughing with his funiness.

He is so handsome, so funny,so sensitive and serious too, he is magnetic in his personality and everyone wants a part of him.

Randy made our trip happen and made it complete when we went to CR in Jan.

He is wise, kind,generous with a zany crazy humourous side that if you can have him a small part of your life you are fortunate:):)

My kid sis Erin, me in middle and my kid brother Ron on the right!!
Those of you who know me know how important my brothers and sisters are to me.

We didn't have it easy growing up.

We lived in extreme poverty in northern Manitoba and our dad was a serious alcoholic who deserted my mom with 8 little kids. Sadly, a gift to us that he left.

But we had something so very special that lots of others didn't have. We had a mom who loved us soo much she was able to make us all feel quite special and she created loads of fun for us when she could.

We are all close, loyal and have alot of fun "making memories" when we get together.

So last Jan of 08 my kid brother Ron turned 50. Plane tickets to CR were $97 and so I told him I'd give him a ticket to come with me and an associate brother Randy to CR if he could get the time off.

He did get the time off and him and Randy and I left Calgary when it was minus 42C last Jan 28/08.
Our sister Erin from CR met us in Tamarindo.

My gads we laffed so much and so hard we had sore cheeks from all the laffing.
It was like the Waltons, four of us slept in one room and some nights we lay talking till 4am.

I have never had such a stress free care free time in my life.

The chemistry between us all was wonderful and it was one comedian outdoing another comedian for the whole two weeks.
I am not sure another holiday could happen in a lifetime like this as we all needed time away from life!!

Thnx Randy, Ron an Erin for the fun and Bob for supporting me to take time away:)

Well my blog wouldn't be about me without speaking about one of the best people in my life....our son...Danny.

Any parent would be proud to be Dan's parent.... he is a good looking.... brilliant..... kind and a funny person.

Parenting him when he was young was fun, he was a live wire and curious as hell and always living life on the edge with learning new things.

We went camping allot together as Bob worked weekends and I was off and when he was 4 yrs old he could direct me in how to back up and park our RV. People were so amazed.

Dan learned to downhill ski with us when he was just under 3 and has excelled at this and is now a fantastic snowboarder...but it gives me the shudders to know of some of the jumps he does.

We are quite excited now as he joins us in Costa Rica for Christmas in about 2 weeks.
Both him and my kid sister Erin, who has lived in San Jose area of CR for 8 yrs will be joining us at the beach for Christmas.

We got them mosquito netting and foamies and they'll sleep on the rooftop terrace overlooking the mtns and the ocean!!

We're hoping Dan sneaks a frozen turkey on the plane as a 15 lb'er here is about $50 plus+++

Thanks Dan for being a special loving person in our lives, love ya forever and an eternity.
Oh my gads he's gonna give me heck now:):):)

A sunset in front of the area close by our condo.

......A Cr ocean sunset:)