June 9 – Scott & Sonya’s arrival in Panama

We picked up Scott & Sonya at Tocumen International Airport around noon. They left in the wee hours the night before on a red-eye from Phoenix with a layover in Miami.







Their first passport stamp!

We took them on a drive though the city and Scott took a lot of photos from the car windows.





We stopped for lunch at the Westland Mall en route to Coronado. We had a medium family platter at Leños y Carbon . It was a hit.

 

On the way here we stopped at an over-look to see the view out over the ocean and the mountains. We drove through Chica’ and turned on the road to Altos del Maria and then back to the highway to Coronado. Visibility could have been better.....

 

We had gotten the key to their condo here at Coronado Bay the day before and we got them settled in and told them to come up when they were ready and we showed them around the building and how to access the pools and the beach entry.

 selfie on their balcony

 views from their balcony

 Sonya walking to the beach

 entry to the beach

 

I had planned to cook dinner of Spicy Sesame Asian Chicken Wings with Coconut Pineapple rice with cashews. The wings came out great, however the rice never got tender. (at least not in time for dinner) So, we had the wings with a Pineapple Habenero dip with some crackers that I had already prepared to snack on.

 views from our balcony

 

View from the rooftop social area:

 

We talked for a while and made the plans for tomorrows visit to El Valle.