This week, I am in Dallas, Texas for the National RWA Conference. If you’d like real-time updates on the writing conference, please check out the Manuscript Mavens blog, where all four of us will be posting updates all week, throughout the day, to share our thoughts, impressions, and ah-ha moments with you.

In the meantime, I’ll be sharing a few of my Costa Rica photos with you here on this blog. (Link: my Costa Rica Thursday Thirteen post)

Today’s Costa Rica photo theme is: HOMEBODIES.

This is the house I stayed at: Villa Paradise


This is a view from the front–my bedroom window is the one on the top floor, to the left.


One day we had the neighbor kids over for some games. They’d never bobbed for apples before, but they caught on in a flash!


We tied a piñata to a tree and the kids had a blast smacking it with a stick and collecting all the candy.


Here are the neighbor kids in the kiddie pool and heading to the slide for the bigger pool.


We rounded out the day with sack races and whipped cream fights. (One of my friends had to drive to a German bakery an hour away to purchase whipped cream at $5 a can–not a common item here in Costa Rica!)