Last Dance

Today is our last in Boquete as we fly back to Panama City this evening. We did another bag of laundry here last night and it took about an hour and the charge was $5. Such a deal! It is cloudy this morning and we had breakfast at our beautiful morning patio. Visited with Oscar the Toucan and had orange juice, oatmeal, fried eggs with crispy corn tortillas and hot chocolate. Jeff had sliced bananas, scrambled eggs with ham and toast along with orange juice and hot chocolate. Breakfast is outstanding at The Oasis.

I walked in the garden for a while. Such gorgeous and huge flowers including begonias, petunias, orchids, day lilies in several colors, lantana, birds of paradise, antheurym, and many more. Fruit trees and flowering trees add shade. Several small streams with waterfalls and a large pond with koi. I will miss my walks in the garden.

Love driving around the country. So pretty in the mountains with lots of cows and many calves. Horses too and occasional goats and sheep. We pass lots of schools and the kids are adorable. They look so cute in their uniforms of a white blouse/shirt and dark blue skirt or trousers for the boys. Every spot often you see a Chino, small general store owned by an Asian. Bigger areas have a mercado or even a super mercado. All the same products we have in the states and similar prices. Very fresh produce and meats. Lots of farm markets for produce, fruit and flowers.

Jeff and I set off to walk around town and visited a native craft center and several stores. Not much to buy here. We did see the "mall" which is quite modern.

There are builds a big American style mall on the road between Boquete and David. David already has impressive shopping and is only a half hour ride from here. I got a strawberry smoothie on the way back to the hotel. Then we rested, took a shower and packed. After watching the news on CNN we had lunch in the on site restaurant.

Now it is almost 5:00 and we are being picked up in a half hour to drive to the airport at David. There we'll talk a COPA flight to Panama City. It is an hour flight.

Oh, the ride to the airport. The ride should take a half hour and of course there was terrible traffic and torrential rain. We finally got there with just under an hour to spare. And, it was fine. There are only two gates and ours was the only flight scheduled. We breezed through check in and security. Now we are on the plane after walking a very long way outside to the plane. Luckily the rain had stopped or we would be soaked.