In other news, I am STOKED (can I say that even though I'm not Keanu Reeves?) that we are going to Costa Rica in a month. I guess I haven't really talked about that on here, have I? Well, I have a farm there with two of my siblings. And I say "farm" only as a convenience. Someday it will be a farm. Right now it is a bunch of land - most of it cliffs and jungle - with a house that my brother is building. He lives there about six months a year and the rest of us are very jealous but not sure how to swing it ourselves. Anyway, we have bananas and mangoes and pineapples planted and being harvested, but just enough for personal consumption and MAN I can't wait to be their consumer! My sister and her husband are going down there with me, Dude and the girls. It is going to be a much, much needed vacation in paradise (you know, if your idea of paradise is a remote mountain side about 5km from the beach in the middle of Central America with fairly primitive amenities and two 18-month-olds, which strangely I guess mine is). And there are monkeys and toucans and sloths and stuff! I've been trying to teach the girls the animal names in Spanish as well as English, but they only seem to care about the giraffe (la jirafa) and the polar bear (el oso polar). Oh well. So much for practicality. I guess they take after their mama a little more than their papa in that department.