We were told the man who conducts the interview would be picking up Abilio in his home town Puriscal which is in the hills above San Jose. He, Abilio and the camera man would be in Esterillos by noon. I knew high tide was going to be almost exactly 12:00 noon and told Elizabeth. She told the people who contacted her but it didn't make any difference. Sure enough - all 3 men were here by 12:15. Once they got here, everyone realized there was no way there could be an interview because there was no way we could get out to La Sirena. It would be a couple more hours before the tide went out and we could make the trek over the very slippery reef.
So......they left and told us they would be back by 3:30. Both Elizabeth and I were stressed at the thought of this interview and now we had several more hours to worry about it. Now that it is done, we will surely laugh about this in the future - but those 3 hours of waiting were painful :) To provide a distraction we went to lunch at Vago's, laughed at how silly we were being so afraid, whined, complained, actually wrote out what we might say. Even baby was upset, moving all over the place.
Finally - 3:30 came, then 4. Elizabeth had told them she needed to pick her daughter up from pre-school in Jaco by 5. She was sitting there giving me that smile just hoping they would be late. 4:25 they arrived - yeaaaaah - Elizabeth had been able to escape.
And so we all made the trek - Elizabeth and I, Abilio, Don Fernando who owns the hotel La Sirena and is the man who asked Abilio to make the mermaid over 20 years ago. Other family members of the Fernando Mora family came out as well as people on the beach. Elizabeth was the first interview and then she left. After her was Abilio and then a number of other people.
We were all out there until the sun went down with just enough light to get us off the reef. One more monumental day - one more day closer to getting her fixed.
Pura Vida
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