friday

dear rocco: sorry that you have been getting sick lately but that doesn't mean when i try and give you medicine you can bite. nope, you can't do that anymore. dear endicott girls: it was so nice to get to hang out with you the past week. stinks you had to leave so soon ... but hopefully i'll see you in a few months! dear school: i'm getting pretty excited for you to start up again. just one more week left, so i should probably get to work on some lesson plans, right? dear bathroom: i really want you to be painted but .. it seems kind of daunting to pick out the right color and paint it myself. any ideas?

apple cinnamon pancakes

wanna know how to make them? head over to my friend nicole's blog and check out the recipe!

scrub-a-dub-dub

so since i've been back i noticed that someone was looking prettyyy dirty. you know .. as if they hadn't had a bath in a while. i wonder if it really had been a while .. like if another certain someone had somehow forgot? i did my best but rocco just was not interested in his bath this time. he literally clung to me for dear life. but we got through it and there wasn't even any crying. although there was that look he gave me in the last picture down there. the "i won't forget about this"  look. sorry, bud!

sunsets on the beach

these shots are a mix of both sunsets from this weekend. the first one i almost missed but i was able to get a few good shots. the second night the sunset was just breathtaking. sometimes i forget that when i go to the beach here it is on the pacific ocean and that the sun gracefully goes right down into the sea until the next night. isn't it pretty?

beach weekend

three years ago i came to costa rica with a group of students from my college. obviously it had a pretty big impact on me...you know since i live here and all. that was the first year that endicott made the trip to costa rica and has been doing ever since. the professor that took my group was finally doing the trip again this year and he contacted me asking if i would be interested in meeting up while he was here and i said of course. he then asked me to tag along on their beach trip weekend as somewhat of a mentor to the students so that they could see someone from endicott who took a completely different route than most and is now living and working abroad. weekend to the beach? sure!

i had such a good time. i bonded with a group of girls who i definitely would have hung with during my time at endicott and the whole weekend i was reminded of my time in costa rica with my own group of friends. we stayed in the exact same hotel and i had so many moments where i just wanted to say remember that time?? but then i was reminded those were completely different people. although we did make some new memories that could rival those of the past .. i mean, a 3 hour bus ride with 18 girls in their self-proclaimed acapella group singing pitch perfect songs? girls after my own heart.

 and lucky for me one of the girls from this trip is staying in costa rica a whole four months! three cheers for new friends ;)