We Got Stuck!

We are in the Nosara area of the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica. We've rented a house with our friends Robbie and Ele. It has been great to just be in a house for a while, and the house is quite nice, including our own little pool! And best of all, a kitchen, with an oven. You know I've been baking. The most successful cookies have been oatmeal with raisins and walnuts. The sugar here is refined differently, so the taste is a little different, but perfect for oatmeal cookies. Less good for peanut butter cookies.

Anyway, things have been very calm here. We've mainly been relaxing at the house, swimming, eating, and walking to the nearby beach. But one day we decided to drive to some beaches a little further away.

Good idea? Not so much.

We went down a road that we thought was headed to a beach, but it ended in a dry riverbed. When we tried to turn around, the rear passenger side wheel got stuck. Really stuck. Robbie and Dave worked for a half hour to try and dig us out, but it was a fail. Ele was sent up the road to try and find help. She found better help than we imagined...

Two dump trucks and a backhoe were headed our way, and said they would pull us out.
Here's what happened once we got the chain hooked to the van.