The Last Beach

Today we didn't do much and I didn't have much to eat because I ended up vomiting again in the morning. I stayed in bed because I was ill and I had to have a lot to drink including ginger ale which I didn't particularly like because my taste buds don't like any fizzy drinks.

I played cards and read my books and as time went on I started to feel better. Later, when I felt 99% well I went to the games room and had a two-on-two series of games of table football with Lucy and two Spanish-speaking children who were in the games room. It was boys versus girls and the girls won most of the games. We only won one of the games.



Later we drove for a little bit in the car and went to a white sand beach. There was a lot of dry wood lying around in various shapes and sizes and there were sand crabs, hermit crabs, and reddish crabs. I went in the water for a bit and it was nice and warm and pleasant. There were no fish to see when we went snorkelling. It was probably the last beach we are going to go to on this vacation.

He tickles Daddy's foot

Beats any famous painting (drawn by me)

When we got back we had showers and started writing this blog, and Mummy discovered a giant green grasshopper on the bed. Daddy managed to get it off by catching it in two origami paper boxes which I made.

A Day of Not Doing Much

Yesterday we went to a small nearby town called Pedasí to go get some things for meals for the next two days at Eco Venao because we're not going out to eat. We don't want to go up and down that hill in the car too often and we have a full kitchen. After shopping we went for a bun and a drink at a small café nearby. I had a chocolate croissant and some milk.

We spent part of the afternoon inside. Later I went to the games room at the lodge on foot through the green and jungly area. There are lots of howler monkeys and we heard them again over breakfast. There are also crickets, various weird bugs, house lizards, stripy lizards, parrots, and hummingbirds.

For dinner we had pasta with sardines soaked in tomato sauce.

As I went up to my bedroom I noticed that there was a giant frog hopping up the stairs beside me. When it got to the top it hid behind a potted plant and started assassinating the flies.

When I went to my room I noticed a few things. There was a house lizard sitting super still on my table, a giant moth on the ceiling, and I have my own private balcony. I got into my big red two-person bed and vomited. I didn't feel too well after that, but I finally managed to get some sleep. The house lizards were going click-click-click, and it was driving me totally bananas.

A Day of Driving

Yesterday we drove out of Panama City and onto the Panamerican Highway. Out of the window I could see lots of jungle. After a bit of driving we stopped in front of some random building for a snack and a stretch of legs. We drove on a bit more and reached a town with a shopping mall and stopped for a sandwich. I had a sandwich with brown bread, ham, and lettuce. It didn't taste very nice and the lettuce was a little dry.

We got on a country road by the sea on the Azuero Peninsula and looked at three hotels. The first was full of birds, including a parrot, emus, and a lot of little birds I can't name, but we didn't like the atmosphere. The second was more grand but too expensive. The third one we stayed in. It was called Eco Venao. We got a three-bedroomed house with a separate kitchen/dining room up on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

We went to go and look at a beach before dinner. It was the type which is really good for surfing. It had grey sand, a few crabs, and there was so much surf it looked as though someone had spilled a giant cappuccino. We went out for dinner at the Eco Venao restaurant. I had red snapper with rice. The restaurant had a terrace called the monkey deck from which we could see lots of howler monkeys making a low groaning sound. As we were driving back there were a lot of crabs trying to cross the road. I didn't see them very well but Daddy said they were bright orange.

We encountered a grave problem when we were coming home. When we were driving our car up the hill our tyres got stuck so we had to take some of the cases out and walk up the hill in the dark. It was a long walk. Then Daddy and I had to walk all the way back down to the car again in the dark and get the rest of the cases. Some of the path was smooth but some parts were very bumpy like being on a ploughed field. The only lights we had to help guide us were fireflies and the stars. There was a pretty magnificent star display. We would have seen even more only there's a nearby small village.