Still Lovin' It!

Today is the 22nd......1 day shy of a month that we would have begun this summer journey south of the border. It feels like an eternity....in the best way. Our days are simple and full.

Most mornings for the girls begin with a journal entry and some reading. Alisa leaves for her 9am workout at the Bocas Fight Gym....or yoga....or weight training(or 2 out of 3!) My day starts at 5am with meditation & mobility training followed by a couple hours of surfing.

From there we just make it up as it goes along.  I am still working so am on & off the computer all day. It is slow-season, however, so I have plenty of time for little missions throughout the day. There is always some swimming off the back deck. We like to wait for the school of sardines to accumulate and then jump into the center of them. The quickness of their scattering flee is a wonder to behold.

The girls have become moderately obsessed with fingernail art. There have been many trips to the local 'everything' store, Toto's, to gather their supplies. They've created myriad templates for their salon guests.

We've dined and played with friends big and small.

 There was a surprise reunion with some local Besties

The girls put their artistic flare on my surfboard.

We had a chess lesson from one of their former classmates who has become the Panama junior chess champion.

A couple months before leaving the States I started a new ice-bath health regimen. To keep up the training I built a bathtub out of a plastic water barrel with the help of the girls.

A little jewelry shopping. This was actually in David. The gentleman who owns the store is wonderfully kind. We stumbled upon the shop last year and now it's a ritual to stop in every time we pass through town.

Miss Malea took one for the team and got sick from 'something'. She spent one day with her stomach in reverse. Then it took a couple days to build her energy back up

This is the rainy season so we've experienced a few torrential downfalls. Most of the time the rains come at night, but on this fine day we got to experience some heavy midday rain. 

 
Life in the tropics is still thriving. Creatures show up in unexpected ways almost daily!

Our neighbors are a young family from Colorado who are trying to put down some roots here. One of their intended business ventures is to rent mermaid tails. They needed some models for their local adds so we decided to be a Mer-Family.

We spent the day at most beautiful beach on the island - Bluff Beach. It can be shockingly dangerous when the waves are big, but on this day it was just right for some family body-whomping!

Alisa is the is our resident Selfie master. This one has a National Geographic feel : )

And then there was this...