March 16.....what have we done? So unlike us.

We went to the beach here before breakfast to look for birds and were not disappointed. We saw a Baltimore Oriole, a blue-crowned MotMot, and another Oriole which we think is either the Streak-backed or Bullock's.  And, we saw a beautiful, mostly yellow bird that we cannot identify and will get help on when we get back home.

At breakfast and at lunch we watched a white throated magpie jay steal food in the cafeteria, too, which was humorous.

After breakfast we had our mandatory meeting with the timeshare people as we got these five days through a promotion. We vowed that we would NEVER buy timeshare again, but.....this one is a bit different which I will not bore anyone with by explaining, but....we actually did buy. I can imagine what our kids' faces will be like when they read this. And, they will have to wait for the full explanation when we get home. Enough said. We are a bit embarrassed, but also feel like we did not make a mistake. We hope.

After lunch, we filled in our March Madness brackets in the group, called the Whalers, organized by David.

• After that, we went to Playa Coco just to walk the street, see the beach there. I bought a few souvenirs for 2 of the grandchildren and some postcards. We saw a woodpecker briefly, but not enough to identify or photograph. We had a great view of a Magnificent Frigatebird. The photos might not be sharp enough to see clearly, but we had a great view of it with our eyes.

Then, another amazing coincidence...we met Ben and his baby son there! We know so few people in Costa Rica and the odds of him being there at the same time as us are miniscule. He was there with a friend to register a boat. It was fun to see him again and he promises to get the proper emails for Nina and Rhianne as mine did not go through.

On the way home, we saw an unidentified bird on a wire, possibly a chachalaca, but we will need help to identify.

We ate dinner at Heliconia's, the a la carte restaurant here as we are entitled to a meal there. It was quite good and we had a pleasant evening.