Homestay in Boquete

After our stay at the beach, we started our 1 week intensive Spanish course in Boquete, a beautiful town in the Western Highlands of Panama. The week was exhausting. This may have been a sign that we were absorbing and processing a lot of Spanish. It may have also been because we had Gwendolyn on our hands full time. We alternated Gwendolyn care - whenever one of us was in class, the other would be bouncing, swinging, reading, singing, hiding, chasing - nearly always in a non-toddler-proof environment. All this compounded by the fact that we were still recovering from our terrible colds.

Some of our less good moments looked like this.

In hopes of rapidly improving our Spanish, we decided to spend this week in a homestay. Nuria kindly welcomed all of us into her home, she had a special fondness for the Wren. She was extremely friendly and extremely talkative, which did help our Spanish, if not our general exhaustion.

We're pretty sure that the best part of this homestay in Gwendolyn's eyes was Nuria's dog.

Open mouth greetings were a daily occurrence, which seemed to delight both parties.

Nuria's house looked out onto Volcan Baru. It was great to be in the highlands and to wear sweaters and jeans and to actually need blankets again at night.