We can’t drink the water in our house, so every couple of days I go over to the guest house and fill up our two water jugs.

There is a faucet on the back wall that is connected to the ultraviolet filter under the kitchen sink of the guest house upstairs.

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Borrowing our neighbor’s little red wagon makes the walk to the house a bit easier.

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Pour the red ones to the blue one, and we’re good to go!

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April 08:             Grandchildren #7 & #8 arrive, apartment, Costa Rica
May 08:              Hellos, Daniel, Lankaster Gardens, Poas
June 08:             Study, El Lugar, Saturday Dominos
July 08:              4th, gathering, 4 days no water
August 08:         1st tri ends, A’s, goodbyes, Evie
September 08:   Hellos, Steve’s appendix out, Friday Pizza
October 08:        Heredia, Baptism, Camp Brittney
November 08:    AMCA house, Thanksgiving, 80 people
December 08:    Atenas, 2nd tri ends, A’s, goodbyes, USA
January 09:        Hellos, grandchild #9, Friday UNO
February 09:      Sledding at Parque de la Paz
March 09:          Manuel Antonio, Parque Charrarra
April 09:             Baby & wedding showers, wedding, goodbyes, Ecuador

In Costa Rica, there are no street names or numbers to tell where you live.  Our physical address had been something like this:

“200 meters south of the Margarita Laundromat,

San Francisco de Dos Rios,

Southeast corner,

Orange and White house.”

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Well, the trim color was recently painted, so our new physical address is:

“200 meters south of the Margarita Laundromat,

San Francisco de Dos Rios,

Southeast corner,

Tan (café con leche) and White house.”

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These are not used for mailing addresses, only to tell someone where your house is.

It’s hard to believe that we have been here in language school for a year already.  We have made many new friends, and will miss them when we move to Ecuador on April 15.

When we arrive in Ecuador, our plan is to spend a few days in Quito before traveling to Shell.  Our mailing address there will be:

Steve and Diane Wilson

Hospital Vozandes del Oriente

Shell, Pastaza, Ecuador

Please only send letters, no packages, until we understand the mail system better.

Here is a more recent picture of our new house in Shell.  We’ll be in the left half.  The renovations inside are continuing.  Hopefully, it will be close to ready when we arrive.

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