head, hands, and heartland: {high tide and low tide}

every year, patrick and i create seven goals for ourselves. patrick coined his 'seven chakra super success system' while we were in hawaii, the first spring equinox we spent together. we make one goal for each chakra. on every list of my goals is "i am practicing yoga every week". doesn't seem that hard, huh? a small, but easily attainable goal for myself. i suppose when you throw a baby, husband, house, job, and school into the mix that goal seems a little more cloudy.

patrick and i needed some space from our daily/weekly/monthly/yearly/life grind. that's how we have found ourselves here in matapalo. we've found simplicity in our daily rhythm. we've given up some of the ease of the US but also a lot of the frustration. for me, one major definition of our time here is: i've been going to yoga every sunday morning. a small goal that i've finally attained through pura vida.

i feel like i have gained some valuable perspective here that i'll take with me forever. i have lots of new ideas and am ready to get to my projects at home too.

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last weekend we went out to lunch (yes!) at lapa rios with our new friends (yes!! we finally found friends!), ticon and devon and their 1+ yr old daughter, ariel. i had a hamburger. can't say that it compared to burgers in the midwest, but it was the best in the osa and exactly what i needed. after that we went on a beautiful hike to this waterfall and further up the creek to a little cave. amara did some swimming with baby ariel and had a great time.

on sunday we drove out to carate. it is a beautiful, rainforest rural place at the end of the road. there is an epic expanse of beach. we went out for the festival de tortugas (sea turtles). all the eggs were in the nursery, so we didn't get to see any, but it was a super fun and beautiful trip. the girls played in a creek under the warm sun and the boys went swimming in the ocean.