Looking for a corkscrew to open a wine bottle should be easy, right? Wrong! Not when you can't  say corkscrew in Spanish and they don't seem to carry them. Had a bottle of red ready to open the other night and began to search the drawers and cupboards for one. None to be had, which is also the case with the garage door opener. So as the keeper of the keys, I close the garage door after Ernie, and when we return from wherever we've been I unlock the door to the house, come in and open the garage door for him. Somebody must have take off with the opener and the owners never did replace it. Anyway back to the corkscrew. Imagine 30 degree heat, back to back traffic, no parking but we are determined. The first place, Maxi Pali, owned by Walmart, but with no air conditioning, carries lots of stuff, but not here. So on to the next place that showed on the GPS - oops now closed. We see another one, but this is where the traffic is bad and parking non existent. Ernie let me out, I went in and said vino and pantomimed opening the bottle. The cute little cashier knew what I wanted! Success! She came close to getting a hug.
We've begun to find a routine here. Because it is SO hot any exercise or walking the beach need to be finished by 8:30, and if we were doing it really right we'd be done by 8. So we start the day with a walk on a very long beautiful beach with hardly anyone around.
Costa Rica is hot I was told before we came and yes it is hot! They charge extra for the electricity here in this community. It is called Ecovida and they want to to be ecologically responsible so by charging they hope people won't use the aircondtioning 24/7. So we don't. We can sit outside or go somewhere in the hottest part of the day in the air conditioned car, which adds to the pollution by using the air conditioning and the exhaust from the car!
Yesterday we intended to go to a National Park up the road but took a side trip to a wildlife refuge and butterfly farm, which wasn't much. Lots of snakes and frogs in cages and some rescued toucans and parrots with broken beaks and broken wings. There were a few butterflies, but not like I've seen I other places. Farther up the road, we stopped to view the crocodiles from a bridge and by the time we got to the National Park it was after 3 and it was too late to get in. We will try that again, but earlier as it would be cooler.