Friday my Spanish class went on a field trip to the Costa Rican children's museum. It was a pretty cool building that used to be a prison. The exhibits were interesting and I wish I could of spent more time there but after class was the start of a new adventure!
After a long time on the bus we finally arrived around 7pm, found our hostel (Lazy Mon) and settled in. We had four rooms between us. There were 7 girls and six guys. I shared one room with four girls, although the 4th girl slept on the couch outside of the room.
I had a great night for the most part, had a few drinks and went out dancing. Some of us decided to jump in the water after and it was sooo nice! I finally settled back into my room around 3am.
The next morning I woke up fairly early so I wasn't able to get much sleep. Jalissa went to breakfast with me and then we decided to rent bikes. When we got back to the hostel everyone was in their bathing suits so we decided to put ours on and get in the water. The water was sooo warm, I was actually hoping for cold water because it was soooo hot out that even with sunscreen (and reapplying) I still got somewhat burnt!! There was a lot of huge rocks in the water so not much room to swim in without getting scraped.
Another group that was around from our university invited us (Jalissa, Chelsea, Amisha, and I) to go to another beach so the rest of them rented bikes and we drove to the beach. There were bike racks there and we locked our bikes on them (bike renting is very popular, few places were already sold out). The beach was sooo nice!! It was a surfing beach and the waves were awesome! We really had an amazing time! After we came home and Chelsea, Jalissa, and I decided to go to the markets around and do some shopping. I bought some cool things. Before that we also stopped by supermarket to buy bread, ham, and cheese for lunch. Now we have breakfast for tomorrow morning too:)
So our hostel has a bar/dance area literally right below the rooms. They also serve food so I decided I wanted to go there for dinner. The three of us went and I ordered nachos, buffalo wings, and fries to share. The food turned out to be amazingly delicious!!!!!
We came back and the rest of the group was hanging out on the back porch so we joined them and played "heads up", which is an app on iPhone or whatever and its similar to charades.
Chelsea decided to mention ice cream and then I really wanted some...so the three of us went on another adventure for ice cream. While we were walking we saw this pizza place right next to our hostel and the guy was like come get some pizza!! I wasn't hungry but I was like let's try it, so we did. The place was called Coco Nuts and was opened 2 weeks ago. The owner was Italian,and didn't want to give us his employee tshirts, lol! His worker was crazy too! The whole place was a "nutty" experience! There were people in the outside seating smoking marijuana and video taping themselves. It was quite an experience. So the pizza was 1,000 colones equivalent to $2 and came with a drink. We shared the pizza and the employee said oh your drinks. He went to the store across the street to try to get juice, we don't know what happened (the whole experience was unreal hahaha). Then he comes back and says we only have watered down juice, so we were like ok? He's like how about I give you shots? We were like water is fine. He comes back with three shot glasses, then goes and gets one for himself! We have no idea what we drank. Then he comes out with two watered down lemonades. It was pretty crazy!
Now we are back in the hostel. I decided not to go out tonight. Jalissa, Chelsea, and I are waking up around 4am to watch the sunset and catch the bus back to San Jose around 7:30am. The rest of the group will probably take the 4pm bus back.
By the way the weather was great, besides way too hot! I'm glad I decided to stay in tonight because now it's pouring!!
One thing I did like about this place was that music was constantly playing everywhere. It's like a vacation resort in the Caribbean. I feel like I'm in Jamaica not Costa Rica, which is the downfall! As relaxed and nice as it is... It doesn't seem like a typical Tico experience. Everyone speaks English and many workers are Anerican...therefore I didn't get to practice my Spanish. Overall I enjoyed myself! It was a nice experience! It feels weird though because I feel like I'm on vacation and like I'm going home to the states tomorrow, but that's not the case!! Back to San Jose, back to school!
Well that was pretty much my weekend!! Xoxoxo:):):)
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