Trip to Dominical for Shabbat

Friday night me, Jared, and Eileen traveled about an hour away to celebrate Shabbat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat.(a time of rest,fellowship). The house we went to was awesome and had a great view in a huge valley. We played football at night, ate dinner, and then some played songs on a guitar with drums and bongos in the background. It is pretty difficult to put into words how great it was. Well, the next morning my friend Tim who owns this spectacular piece of property received a phone call that his boat motor had been stolen and a man that knew who had stolen it was down the street at the hardware store. Myself, Jared, Tim, and another man named Bruce tagged along. Tim informed us that this was not unsual, nor the first time this sort of thing had happened. So we went to the hardware store where the guy told Tim what had happened the other day. When you own anything off of your property here you pay someone to watch it for you. Tim pays a guy 50 bucks a month to watch his boat. It turns out that the man at the hardware store tells Tim that the guy who stole it was the guy who is watching it. The man then told Tim that if it was his property that was stolen that he would.....the man reached in his car and pulled out a 9mm pistol and fired it in the air. There were about a dozen or so people right around at this time. Nobody freaked out or scattered. I wasn't scared either, but it appeared that this wasn't unusuall. After we left the hardware store we stopped for coffee and then we went to see the guy who supposedly stole his boat motor. It was a quick meeting where Tim told the guy that he had until Monday to get his motor back. The judicial system here is a joke so I hear. If someone steals your property they might get arrested and if they don't it can take years to go through the system. The community is good about telling on others who steal also because it is bad for the community and the local economy. Tourists don't want to come to a place where people are robbed...that is the end of that story. We then went to a restaurant on the beach called the Refuge. Jared and I grabbed some surf boards and went out to attempt to catch a wave. Well, the waves weren't beginner waves. Domincal is actually a place where surfers all over world stop in to surf. It took about 15 minutes just to get out to the waves. I almost caught a couple waves and I was glad I didn't. When I was on top of the waves it looked like looking down from a 2-3 story building. Well I missed a couple waves and relaxed for a second, turned around and saw a monster wave on top of me so I held my breath and went under water. I got tossed around under water for 10 seconds or so and felt like I barely mad it above water in time for another breath. That was the end of the surfing. I was in no mans land. Great experience that I will never forget. Praise the Lord.