Locked out....

So Amy and I are are currently locked of the house of the family with whom we are living, so we have found ourselves with some time to kill at the internet cafe and hence here I blog (I can´t believe that´s a verb now). Since we have been a little slow on getting this going, and we already have SOOOO many stories to tell I intend to write ¨Time Warp" posts to recount them. For now however, I figure that I will just try update eveyone on our current situation. We are currently in Orosi, Costa Rica living with a Tico family (Costa Ricans call themselves ticos because they love to add extra suffixes to words like -ico which means little or cute). Three weeks ago, before we traveled to Nicargua we were living with the same family. We have also resumed taking Spanish classes and have found that our Spanish has been getting better during our travels, so thats good. Amy is still a bit ahead of me but I like to think I am catching up. We just finished eating a ham and cheese pastry which is one of our staple lunches. Yesterday we had a great time visiting the aguas calientes, or hot springs, on the Rio Macho. The springs were very shallow, only a couple of feet, but they were VERY warm. Amy and I laid in the sun for about an hour, watching huge bamboo trees swinging in the breeze. After we had had enough relaxation we wondered back through the coffee plantation by which we had entered the hot springs, and got caught in a typical afternoon rainstorm. At any rate now Amy and I are trying to plan the next part of our adventure, to Argentina. We are going to fly out of San Jose (the capital of Costa Rica) of the 14th of November for Buenos Aires. Classes continue for us for three hours a day until friday the 9th. After classes end we intend to visit the city La Fortuna, which boasts the most conical volcanoe in Costa Rica, Arenal. This volcano is still active and is apparently spewing lava and molten boulders currently. Well thats about it for now.... pura vida!!!