Monday, July 21, 2014

And we are off...

This blog chronicles the Vega's sabbatical trip to Costa Rica and points in between.  The Bee Gees reference relates to the seeming love affair that CR radio stations have with the 70's wonder trio...and who can blame them...a little Bee Gee goes a long way.


Playing catch up posting since we left on the trip on June 30th...internet service has been sketchy...time limited.

June 30, 2014

You can never have too much time...even with the best planning...we always seem to pull an all-nighter getting things ready. This trip was even more stressed getting launched, as a result of getting the house ready to rent while we are "in-country" (I just like saying in-country:) -Costa Rica.

We leave the house in the trusted hands of Gareth Williams (who works at Intel out of the Swindon, UK office) and his lovely family.  

We were planning on being self sufficient and getting to the airport by bus/rail, but there's no way we would have been ready in-time, so we cabbed it.

We flew to the City of Angels (and our former stomping ground) to visit Celeste's Mom (Dar) for a few days.

Before visiting Dar - we decided to make a lunch-run to some old west-side haunts - Abbott's Pizza or Alejos...Alejos won out.  Yum!



June 30th is Zuzu's B-Day!  The weekend before we left on the trip Z had a slumber party with a few friends.  We continued the fun with candles in EVERYTHING she ate that day:-)

Zuzu is 8 yrs old - spelled out with Mallomar candies.
The Alaska Airline captain on our flight to LAX was sweet enough to let Z sit in the captain's chair, as a special treat for her B-Day.  I thought he might launch into "Airplane - the movie" dialogue:

Captain Oveur: You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
Captain Oveur: You ever seen a grown man naked?
That movie is pure Farrelly brothers genius (IMO)


And last, but not least- the cake!