When we arrived at the peninsula the Navidad party was already started. The 'streets' were filled with people sitting in chairs, listening to music, dancing, lighting fireworks, cooking out on various types of barbeques and of course enjoying a few cervesas.

Family and friends celebrate Christmas on the Quepos, Costa Rica peninsula.

We started out at Junior's great-aunt and uncle's house, then walked to Junior's grandmother's house and finally ended up at another relative's home. Each stop we were provided with food ranging from cerviche (a fish stew), tripe (a cow intestine and vegetable stew) and carne (marinated skirt steak cooked on an out door barbeque). I was the only Norte Americano or 'gringo' on the entire peninsula and everybody couldn't have been nicer … I was welcomed by everybody I was introduced to and those that spoke any amount of English would do their best to talk to with me. The most common question being; "do you like Costa Rica?" My answer was always; "si, mucho!"

After approximately 4 hours of visiting, eating and even some dancing – we took the water taxi back across the fishing ship port area and walked back to downtown Quepos. It was almost midnight and the streets were quite busy with festive locals. Santa Clause was riding around in the back of a pick-up truck throwing candy to children with a procession of cars honking their horns. Junior and I took the opportunity to celebrate the Christmas holiday with a photo opportunity at the Quepos sea wall Christmas Tree.

Felize Navidad / Merry Christmas from Quepos, Costa Rica!!!