Tico Tales - What's In The Box?
Occasional Tales from our Life in Costa Rica
Just the other day Amy decided to open the small box in our garage marked "Xmas." Since we moved into our house in Costa Rica on December 22 last year, and our stuff didn't arrive from Tbilisi until February, we had not seen the contents of this particular box since December 2005. Amy was hoping to uncover forgotten holiday treasures but found instead: a few blank cards originally purchased on sale in January 2004, a bag of felt (and this just after she learned where in San Jose to buy felt. Because at Christmas Amy feels the urge to make things out of felt.), and one string of 50 lights - 230 volts, compatible with Georgian electrical outlets, but not with the ones in Central America. The most interesting thing about the lights is that the sticker on the box indicates we paid 22.50 lari, or roughly $11.00, for that bit of Christmas cheer. (Explains why there's just one box of lights.). Last week we bought boxes of 100 lights for 1,500 colones (about $3.00) - one of the few times anything in Costa Rica has cost less than it would have in Georgia.
POSTSCRIPT
Ooooh, there was treasure in the box after all! We found an ornament wrapped in the felt! It's one we received as a gift at Xmas 2005 from Aunt Marsha and Uncle Dennis. It shows Santa at his mailbox holding a letter from "Jason, Amy, Sophie and Sebastian of Tbilisi, Georgia." Sebastian, of course, is the dear kitty who died in July. Finding this little piece of our recent history put smiles on our faces.
Just the other day Amy decided to open the small box in our garage marked "Xmas." Since we moved into our house in Costa Rica on December 22 last year, and our stuff didn't arrive from Tbilisi until February, we had not seen the contents of this particular box since December 2005. Amy was hoping to uncover forgotten holiday treasures but found instead: a few blank cards originally purchased on sale in January 2004, a bag of felt (and this just after she learned where in San Jose to buy felt. Because at Christmas Amy feels the urge to make things out of felt.), and one string of 50 lights - 230 volts, compatible with Georgian electrical outlets, but not with the ones in Central America. The most interesting thing about the lights is that the sticker on the box indicates we paid 22.50 lari, or roughly $11.00, for that bit of Christmas cheer. (Explains why there's just one box of lights.). Last week we bought boxes of 100 lights for 1,500 colones (about $3.00) - one of the few times anything in Costa Rica has cost less than it would have in Georgia.
POSTSCRIPT
Ooooh, there was treasure in the box after all! We found an ornament wrapped in the felt! It's one we received as a gift at Xmas 2005 from Aunt Marsha and Uncle Dennis. It shows Santa at his mailbox holding a letter from "Jason, Amy, Sophie and Sebastian of Tbilisi, Georgia." Sebastian, of course, is the dear kitty who died in July. Finding this little piece of our recent history put smiles on our faces.
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