You use cardboard or plywood on the grass.
We went to El Parque de la Paz today, about a 15 minute walk from our house. This is a popular place for kite flying, and sliding. We went with another family and their 3 small children.
Here are a few pictures of our day…..
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The water started coming back about mid-day Sunday, after being off most of the time since Thursday. By evening, it was at about half pressure. And by this morning, it was full-strength. Here is a link to the story in the Costa Rican newspaper. Check out the picture of the pipe that was broken!
http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/julio/06/pais1607424.html
Also, if you can’t read Spanish, here is a translator that I use occasionally. It isn’t great, but sometimes you can get the idea of certain phrases.
http://free-translation.imtranslator.net/
Some of our friends had planned a big celebration at their house for the Fourth, but with the water issues here (see the last blog entry), they had to cancel. They have 5 kids, and there were about 35 or so people expected – too much for a non-functioning bathroom.
We are now entering our third day with water issues in the San Jose area.
On Thursday afternoon, the water was reduced to a trickle in our house. We soon found out that our neighbors had no water. And we later found out that the problem was quite widespread. We had a trickle because we live at the bottom of a hill, so whatever was left in the system worked its way in this direction.
It’s Saturday morning now, and the water is back on at a reduced pressure. We don’t know how long it will last. One person said that they had heard that it was going to be a long problem, so they planned to give each neighborhood some water for a few hours at a time. We’ll see. But at least we were able to go out and buy some bottled water. The first store we went to was cleaned out, but we ran into a guy that we know from church, and he told us where to go.
Last Monday, I (Steve) started in a new grammar class that was ahead of where my old one was. I found out about it the previous Friday, so I spent some time over the weekend trying to study the sections I had missed. In order to totally catch up, I hired one of the teachers to spend a couple of hours after school with me to go over the sections on (for you grammar buffs) direct objects, indirect objects, and reflexive verbs.
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