Got home from Cali around 1 p.m. and there were still tarps everywhere and a bunch of workers cleaning up the mess after having our popcorn ceilings scraped and re-textured over the weekend. I suspected this would happen. The contractor thought he could have the job done in 2 days. Sure enough, 3.5 days later he was not done. Actually I was impressed they had gotten as far as they had. It was a big job! So upon finding ourselves tired and homeless, we called our good friends, the Stouts (family of 7 who stayed with us for 7 weeks last spring while they were finishing construction on their home). They were happy to have us crash at their home and even fed us delicious food as soon as we walked in the door. It was fun to catch up with them and the kids felt like it was an extension of our vacation because they LOVE playing with the five Stout kids. We heard all about their plan to move to Costa Rica for a year starting this July. They are going to rent a small house on a 30 acre farm and learn Spanish, learn how to ride horses, learn to farm, and just experience an entirely different lifestyle. We told them we'd come visit them in Costa Rica in December. | 