Playa Samara

More fun has been had! We are currently enjoying some frosty beverages at our hotel, listening to some local music and swatting away buggies...tropical heaven!

Yesterday we made the trek to playa samara, south of nosara (popular tourist spot). We checked into our bungalow that has an outdoor shower so cool and headed to e beach. We had lunch at a restaurant on the sand and then enjoyed the surf and sun. No rain yesterday. We had a fabulous steak and mussel dinner at a location that has a pretty fancy grill, the wood burns and then rolls down slides to the cooking grill when the chefs need more fuel. Saw that in our travel book and it sounded too cool to pass up. Pricy but delicous, we had a little dog friend all dinner so I snuck out some steak scraps to share :) my mom would be so proud!

Today....oh today, has been amazing! We started the morning with a delicious breakfast and the headed down to the beach to soak up the sunshine. While at the beach we rented horses and a guide and went on a two hour horse ride. Beautiful views and gorgeous scenery. Kyle and I will both be very soar but it was a great experience. Very entertaining to watch kyle on a horse, he did very well for not riding in years. We got off the horses just in time, a huge thunder and lighting storm hit! And I mean huge...has to be the hardest I have ever seen it rain. So what did we do, got in the pool :) so much fun! When the rain let up we headed in for some local food and tourist shopping. Got our magnet and some other goodies.

Tomorrow we head up to tamarindo for more fun. We will be staying a true tourist resort tomorrow, time to enjoy some luxury again. Enjoy the pictures and more to come when I get wi-fi and some time away from the beach!
Pure vida!










- Shalyce

Location:160,,Costa Rica

Costa Rica wedding, yeah baby!!

Soooo....what an amazing trip so far! Snorkeling adventures, zip lining tours, ATV rainy excursions, a surprise guest, sport fishing floats, oh and a pretty kick ass wedding if I do say so myself! Such a truly awesome group of friends and loved ones, we had an out of this world experience and I know I speak for both Kyle and I when I say, we truly couldn't have planned it to be more perfect and out of this world fun.

Thank you to all that joined us, I don't have very many pictures from the wedding so please forgive me for only having one to share right now. I am posting many more of the fun activities and pool laziness we have been enjoying. When guests start sending me wedding pictures I will upload them, believe me I am just as excited to see them as you are :)

I will fill in more details of the adventures continue but wanted to get some photos up for people to start looking at.

Kyle and I are currently in the Hilton just outside Liberia, the town we flew into on Monday. His parents and sister leave tomorrow and then we are heading down the coast again to a town called Samara. Stay there for two nights and then move on.

Hope I get a picture of everyone uploaded, we had a fabulous time! Thank you especially to my parents, sister, and Shannan for making this a truly magical day for me. Love all of you! (that goes for all of you that couldn't quite make it here too, love you!)

Oh and happy birthday to my loving dad and great aunt Macky! Love you!!!

















- Shalyce

Location:Costa Rica

Easter dinner

Delicious meal of french rack of lamb, asparagus, and quinoa! Thank you Sam the Cooking Guy :)


- Shalyce

Wedding website update

Some new passport information and exit tax information posted! Nothing too major but needs to share.

Www.costaricachilders.com

Engagement Announcement!

Check out our article in the Missoulian!

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Rainy Days....

make for fun pictures! I took this when I was leaving work on Wednesday night! thought it was a pretty cool picture.

Sunday night train adventure

The blog is behind but I have been focusing on the wedding website a little bit. I added a TON of Information about the resort, Costa Rica in general, passport info, wedding data, etc. Check it out www.costaricachilders.com Side note, we had a great weekend in San Diego! Didn't see nearly enough of our friends or do/eat at all the spots we wanted to but we had a fabulous time! I miss this place immensely! Flew in Thursday night and headed to Old Town for some delicious cheese dip and Mexican food, don't forget the kill ars margaritas. I had a habeneyro lime margaritas. Yummy! Friday was a long full day of work meetings but Friday evening I hit up Tin Fish with the Steen family...oh how I missed you. What a sweet little family :) then I rejoined Kyle and Mychal then met Devarae, Tobin, Lendy and Dankberg for some drinks in Mission Hills. Fun times, good friends. Saturday Dominica came and picked me up for brunch, we went to R Gang Eatery, famous for their tots and now i know why! Great pick Dom :) always fun to catch up and get some girl talk in. The afternoon was dedicated to Bronco football. Sister and I made delicious food for the game and watched the broncos get worked, sorry Kyle. Sunday was breakfast/food fest at Tobin and Lendy's house. We literally ate all day long, killer on the waste line but my tummy was so happy :) good thing my hotel has a gym, guess what I'll be doing after work this week! Now I am headed north on the Amtrak train to spend my week in orange and lax. We have a new guy starting and I will be his supervisor, this is a new adventure for me so wish me luck, kinda nervous! Alright enough brain dump for now. Check out the wedding website, happy Sunday night! Random pictures attached. Devarae, Jenna and me at Christmas


At the winery for my birthday.


- Shalyce

Location:Long Branch Ave,San Diego,United States