To the beach

On Friday I took a taxi from my family to Hao´s family because it was pouring down rain around 2 o´clock. It was a silent ride but less than a buck. Hao´s mom, Majory is a negiotiater and found us a taxi driver to take us to the beach for 200 bucks. It was going to be 400 before she got on the phone. We were told the taxi holds 9 people so Majory and three of her kids were going to come. The kids were at school when I arrived so I played with the babies. Then Marjory asked me to run errands with her. She is a sales woman. She buys from a company and makes house deliveries. Since Father´s Day was in two days she had a lot of deliveries to make. On the way she talked slowy and used a lot of gestures for me to understand. We first went to a government building to sell to her friends. They bought boxer briefs and men´s lotion. There was a man there who wanted to speak English to me so that was fun. He was fruity! There are a lot of fruity men here in Costa Rica. Next stop was to her office to turn in receipts and pick up more goods. Then we went to her friend´s house. The dad told me who they were buying for which was his three son in laws and his son. He spoke super slowly and I understood! Then in the pouring down rain we walked home. The taxi came about 20 minutes later. It was small! It only had room for 7 and with the car seats that was a stretch. But Majory´s kids were so excited so they squeezed in. There was the mom, an 11 year old, a 7 year old, and a 1 1/2 year old all in the way back next to Ha Lien. We were like sardines said the grandma. And we were off by 6:00 p.m. It was pitch black and raining so we just hoped the driver was safe. He was! 3 hours later and after one puker we arrived. I ended up holding the sleeping baby for most of the ride. It was 9 p.m. and we were starving but guess what. It was too dark to walk to town and you have to go through the beach said our neighbors who were German. They felt so bad for us they gave us all their snacks. So our dinner was bbq pringles, cheese curls, chips ahoy, and oatmeal cookies. Good thing you can drink the water here! We were excited to go to bed becuase there was AC and a fan! Sleeping was great but I was freezing.
To be continued because now I must go to school.