Mother's Favorite Word

"Perezoso"- adj. Lazy

... or so I thought. It turns out a better translation is sloth, as in one of the Seven Deadlies. Because, Perezoso also means sloth (those goofy 3 toed animals that are always smiling) in Spanish.

I was out walking today when I ran into Freddy, a friendly guy I'd met at the big family reunion. He's a guide in the area, and as with more guides than other locals, he says Pura Vida all of the time. He was doing yard work for his mom but ditched it (pun intended) when he saw me walking by. And thus, we began our hunt for the sloth.

Here is Freddy with Labios de Amor

-the lips of love, one of the millions of flowers that grow here year round. He promised to help me find a sloth, while at the same time discussing all of the tours he can take me on- a real salesman, this Freddy. It was cool though, we gathered some macadamia that hadn't been eaten by the ardillas (squirrels) and chewed some raw sugar straight from the cane "para caminar más"- I think he meant for more energy, though I'm not sure. Por fin, we found a perezoso, a bit anticlimactic. They don't do anything, even when Freddy beat the tree trunk and whistled, it just sat there. Boring, those perezosos.

Quick everybody look, it's doing nothing!