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LakeArenal

LakeArenal's Journal
LakeArenal's Journal
August 24, 2020

Some know we moved to Costa Rica a year ago Sept 1

We just felt our first earthquake. 5.97 hours away in Nicoya.

Very odd. 🌋

August 19, 2020

We won something good!! We never have ever!

Our favorite grocery store is in Canas, Costa Rica. We get messages in Spanish but usually we only partially know what they say in Spanish. Mr Lake got a message that said our store is giving us 100,000 colonies in store credit. Our ex pat group thought it is a scam but no it wasn’t. We drove over the mountain and stopped in. We got it. Wow.
We thought it was a credit so we go up with about 39,000. She says no you have to spend it all now. 100,000 is about $169.
So suddenly it was supper market sweep to come up with 60,000. It was fun. We bought wine and alcohol. 6 bottles. Still need more. Bought two big bottles of Tide (a luxury item for me). Still need a few more colonies. A bottle of dishwashing liquid and a roll of aluminum foil pushed us over.

It was so fun. The checkers were more excited than us. 100,000 is A LOT of $ here. Fun in this quarantine.

Pura Vida as they say here.

August 14, 2020

Amazing. Billionaires paid for a new Notre Dame in a few days

No billionaire to bail out our Post Office?

For the next three or four months?

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