Day 8 of my Costa Rican adventure took us first to the mountain town of Sarchi – Costa Rica’s main “artisan” town.
Sarchi is famous for it’s colorfully painted oxcarts (once used to haul coffee beans – now more for decoration) and home to the “World’s Biggest Oxcart.”
From there, we headed to Zarcero.
I loved the bright green hills with the swirling mist of clouds dancing through the trees.
And the charming town park featuring funky topiary made a fabulous backdrop for photos. Of course we had a another bit of hug/photo drama 🙂
Also on display was the most elaborate of the hundreds of nativity scenes I’ve come across since here. Notice the woman doing laundry in the photos below…
On the way back to Grecia we stopped at a small butterfly house. Very cool.
I’ll let the photos tell the rest of the story today… enjoy!
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Thanks for sharing. Of course I love the art 🙂 But I really want to know if your son hurt himself doing the high side kick…I’d be in traction for weeks! And the woman doing the laundry…hmmmmm??
Thanks Marcia. We visited a fabulous art shop a couple of days later – I’ll post some photos of those when it’s time. And my son, no, he didn’t hurt himself. He’s the most limber person I know. I think he’s made of rubber.
Isn’t the laundry aspect of the nativity a hoot?
Actually – I think it’s Mary doing the laundry…. must be all of Jesus’ diapers.
I love the photo of Brandon kicking and the one of him holding the blue morpho with the green stripes showing on the back. 🙂 Beautiful!
You make Sarchà and Zarcero shine! Great pictures! I like the one of me kicking, too. That will be my new Facebook profile. I also like where I was doing a sword-fighting pose with your tripod, and almost eating a light bulb. I guess I was in a silly mood that day…
Enjoyed all the pictures, especially the ones of Mary’s laundry and Brandon being silly and the butterflies…what a gorgeous place.
What a treat! Thanks Allison. From Brandon’s impressive poses, the fabulous painted carts, Emily’s red shoes, Marie’s sad, pouty expression and the amazing butterfly shots, I loved it all. Jennifer seems to be an amazing woman and takes all these adventures in stride. Almost forgot, Mary’s laundry was too funny, now think of a funny caption and have it made into a t- shirt or something.
Thanks so much for the share. I loved every photo. Mary’s laundry disterbed me a bit though. There were only two wise men. Was Mary doing laudry for the third wise man, who was in his underwear and out of sight? I think these are questions that need to be answered.
I think the 3rd wiseman is kneeling in front of the others. But Joseph is nowhere to be found – unless that’s him hauling a sheep over his shoulders by Mary and her laundry….
Or, perhaps he was shrunk by a shrinking ray and is now only about 12″ tall… On this viewing I noticed a little man back in the grass to the right and behind Jesus.
The angel appears to be babysitting…
Allison what beautiful pictures. You captured everything perfect!! What a story in pictures. It looks like everyone had a wonderful time.
Cool!! The pictures are incredible. I love all of the fog. Beautiful, beautiful.
And I love that you capture the whole Marie/Emily hug scenarios. 🙂
Can’t wait for more updates!
WOW !!!!!!!!!!! THANKS. I say ditto to all the other comments.