Blogs from San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean

Well sorry for the delay...It's crazy around here. Well so to catch up on what's been happening, I had my first two choir concerts this weekend. The first was Friday, and the trick was I had to go get my uniform before hand. The choir has a lot of uniforms for different things. We have a white t-shirt, blue polo, and red polo that all were provided as well as a blue and white choir robe. However we also have long sleeved black shirts as the other uniform. Well needless to say I didnt bring any of my choir clothes down here so I had to buy black shoes, black socks, black belt, black pants, black shirt... and that's where the interesting part came in. As you can imagine the sizes in USA do not correlate ... read more

Mike and I arrived in San Carlos on Thursday of last week and it seems like every day we’re in this area, the more we feel at home. San Carlos is quite a large area. It’s more like a county containing many small towns such as Ciudad Quesada, Muelle, La Fortuna and Santa Rosa. It’s northwest of San Jose in case anyone is looking at a map. On the way to San Carlos, Mike decided we would diverge from the route we knew and see some towns we hadn’t yet visited. Maps of Costa Rica, however, tend to be a bit lacking - as does road signage - and, needless to say, we got a bit lost. We ended up on some bad 4x4 roads. For the first time we found ourselves uttering the words, “We’re ... read more