3.27.2010
Semana Santa/Spring Break #2!
Sunday- Puntarenas
Monday- Monteverde
Tuesday- San Jose to pick up Chris! Then Puerto Viejo, Caribbean Coast
Wed- PANAMA! Bocas del Toro
Thurs- Panama
Fri- Panama
Sat- Panama to the Punt
Sunday- Punt to Montezuma
Monday- Montezuma to home, and Chris leaves :(
We're both super excited to see our friends and family members that were able to make it out! And the rest, we miss you dearly <3
3.22.2010
A quick update post-Monteverde
Leaving here is probably going to be the hardest thing I will ever have to do, and I honestly mean that. We've really made our own lives here, and they are incredible- I can't think of another time where things have been so perfect. We have homes and amazing new friends and we live in a tropical paradise laced with constant adventure, and the culture/language is amazing. Not being able to go salsa on a Thursday night is probably going to be the death of me. Not seeing the faces of everyone I've gotten to know and love here is going to be terrible, and not having this amazing country to explore and become a part of will probably make me cry until I return again in the future.
However, there is still a good amount of time here, and I'm determined not to think about the end anymore until it's actually here!
The zip line here was hands down the best I've ever done! It wasn't even scary though, it was just amazing. The last cable is 1km long and you have to go with another person so that you don't get stuck in the middle, where you would probably be left to die because you can't even see the other end from the beginning. Michelle and I went together and it was amazing! You just fly into a cloud and look down and there are the most amazing trees ever below you that stretch for miles. It never stops being amazing.
We stayed in a really nice little cabin-style resort on Saturday night and everyone spent the night listening to music and just hanging out, but before that we went to an amazing restaurant called The Treehouse, and it was literally just a restaurant built around a giant tree. I'm not going to just go out and say it, but it MIGHT be possible that we spent all of our dinner money on the most delicious chocolate fondue I have ever even heard of. SO good! I guess that's about it- another awesome trip, as usual!
Spring break is fast approaching! Kristin's birthday is Thursday, and we have an epic night planned! Ummm I think that's it!
3.10.2010
Our Weekends in Review!: the empty half of the glass
We met some interesting characters at this house!Beautiful colorsOur travel group for the weekend! We stayed at Kat's (right) host dad's cousin's house- Piko!
Poas and the cloudsHotel Alajuela- AKA Acurrucar Hotel!
That's all for now! Soon: the other 4 weekends, life in the Punt, and the people we frequently hang out with.
3.07.2010
Culturally Chaotic: A Super-Epic Weekend
But that's just the end of the weekend! Disclaimer: some of this post was written after a weekend of getting probably about 9 hours of sleep total, and 13 hours of travel. It might not make any sense.
This was the bus that brought us from Cariari to La Pavona, where we caught the water taxis
Boating down the wild rioooo
An hour or so later, Tortuguero! It was rainy and shockingly cold, but also very beautiful.
Super psyched that we made it to the East Coast! So psyched you can barely see the tiredness!
Our ocean-front hostel... so cultural.
We may or may not have found a secret entrance to the National Park...This is a very colorful part of the town of Tortuguero!We jumped in the ocean at 5am on Sunday through the rain and the cold, then jumped on a boat at 6am and got some sweet ponchos. It was worth it just for the ponchos.
This was the last of our zillion bus rides home- one of which was 1 hour, 3 hours of waiting time because of a mudslide, the second of which was a 5 hour route because of the mudslide, and the last of which was from San Jose to the Punt, 2 hours. We got back at 7pm, and then jumped in the Pacific! 13 hours of traveling for a pretty awesome end goal, I think.
So anyway, pretty good times. As for Kristin's previous post, I could not agree more with everything she said. I just don't really ever want to leave!