yesterday we did not do much -- in fact, we slept in and missed breakfast, and then leasurely headed to the beach via the same store that sold excellent orange juice ( Read more... )

today we went for a day trip to Nicaragua, which turned out be very close to Playa Hermosa Guanacaste ( Read more... )

yesterday we spent a very relaxing day at Playa Hermosa ( Read more... )

today we woke up really early to catch an 8am (7am PST) shuttle from Arenal to the beach... of course, because we were leaving, there was no more rain in the volcano area, but it was time to move on nevertheless ( Read more... )

let's see...how long has it been? about three and a half years, it seems ( Read more... )

today, we woke up earlier than usual to catch a train to odense -- andersen's hometown..the train took an hour-and-a-half to get there, so we read a lot, and now i'm almost done with my book -- now i can give it to my mom because she wants to read it too ( Read more... )

today, we decided, is gonna be a short and easy day ( Read more... )

today we woke up and were surprised to find out that it was raining...even though it makes perfect sense, it was still unexpected...plus, yesterday, we decided that we're gonna spend the day walking around the city, which is obviously hard to do when it is raining ( Read more... )

for those of you who do not know, scott and i (and now also my mom) are back in europe, sort of traveling...scott actually wanted to study russian in russia, that's why we decided to go to saint petersburg for 3 three weeks...we also need to visit my russian relatives in the middle of nowhere, so that's what we're gonna do for the 4th week of our ( Read more... )

grand canyon photos are available here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ytsipeny/Arizona