Good-bye Orlando!

It's been a solid run here in O-town, but it's finally time to say good-bye, and what a better way than a party where we see some of our awesome friends and get rind of a bunch of unneeded stuff! The party took place last night and it was great fun!

We had a lot of fun with our friends and meet some new folks. There was a bonfire, plenty of beer, a shirtless-street banjo player and some killer food including Tiffany's homemade jalapeno brownies and zucchini brownies, 8lbs of mozzrella sticks (from Sacks Grocery for $8) a pasta dish courtesy of Tina and Leon; Sara's fruit salad and Pat's flat ginerale!

Our final fire was spectacular! We've been collecting our waste paper and miscellaneous pieces of scrap wood for a while so we decided to start before everyone showed up just to be sure we were able to go through everything. Despite our initial efforts, we barely made it through our stockiple before the party died out; I was even albe to toss on the paper mache Kangaroo from our Christmas party last year which has been slowly diing in our back yard for months.

I had set up our back room with all the knicnacs we're trying to get rid of and set up some space in the front room for browsing of some records. Both areas were a success, we got rid of a TON of stuff, and sold a bunch of records. I'm left with my dad's ofld Seals and Croft records, some Ringo Starr, a John Denver album and a "Learing Russian" records set on 7". Maybe the Librbary will take them?...

We are on our final stretch of time in Orlando. Jason has been working really hard to move or sell everything in our home. It's rather sad to see our first home slowly fall apart but it is still refreshing to let it all go. By the end of July, I hope to own nothing except clothing and camping gear.

The few days I have off from work have been rather eventful in this last month. Jason and I went to a small park with the US's 2 oldest cypress trees; the Senator, 3,000 years old and Lady Liberty, 2,500 years old.

In the last week, we have been keeping our spirits high and our body temperature low by swimming or biking around town. Wednesday night we took part of an Animal Collective show.

About a week ago we sent out an email to many WWOOF farms of Costa Rica to see if any one was willing to take on two very eager volunteers. To our delight, we had a great many responses. We have now started to map out the farms. I personally would like to cover as much of Costa Rica as possible, so I would like to work in 3 or 4 completely different regions . The variety of opportunities is incredible. There is everything ranging from gardening to reforestation to construction to yoga! The Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the places I would really love to work. The idea of working with animals and traveling through the Nicoya Peninsula seems like a dream come true. Some other great news is that many hosts have told us they are willing to take on long term volunteers. Hopefully, we will have made some solid plans and have travel dates by the end of July.