Blogs from San José, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 14

SO this entry is late--but who cares? No one is reading this but ME! Well, right now at least. Here's a brief recap of the past two day's events: I had a layover in Norf Kuralina for three hours where I finally watched Another Gay Movie in the airport. Looking back at it, it probably wasn't the best idea as there were some explicit scenes. I turned around and a nice-looking older white lady (at least I assumed she was nice--it's Norf Kuralina, right?) was looking at what I was watching. She wasn't mortified so I think she didn't see it. I left the airport to arrive in the city of Alajuela where I thought I was meeting my travel buddy Katelynn. Buuuuut I pulled an Armando and got the time wrong and ended up waiting ... read more

After such a smooth travel day, things got a little “shakier” on my first night. There was an earthquake! I was so tired that, although I woke up, I convinced myself that I was dreaming. It wasn’t until the morning that I learned that there was quite a large earthquake (magnitude 5.6, whatever that means) on the border of Costa Rica and Panama. For me, this was very remarkable, as I have only experienced one before, but for my host family it was much less remarkable. However, it did give us something to talk about over the rice and beans, cheese, mango, papaya, and pineapple of our breakfast. The earthquake also provided excellent ice-breaking material on my first day of language school. After small talk and coffee, I had a verbal test to assess my level ... read more

Not a great blog for me to write today as I havent been very well at all! We woke up at about 9.30 which was a really good sleep as we were asleep by 11pm also. But we really needed it especially me as we had now worked out that I have a chest infection (no need to explain why we knew!) so needed some bed time afer being awake at 4am yesterday and a long day of travelling! Ben got up and went on the short walk that Jacob did with the group around the centre of San Jose pointing out things we may need in the next day, and I went back to sleep for an hour. He came back with breakfast, antibiotics, cough medicine and throat tablets! What a keeper! So, all drugged ... read more

Geo: 9.42715, -83.6614We like to break up the trip between San Jose and Puerto Jimenez and love the "secret" Costa Rica we have enjoyed staying at the Roca Dura Cafe y Hotel in up in the cooler climate of beautiful San Gerardo de Rivas area.... read more

I guess Egypt was not meant to be for me at this time. With all the political unrest I have decided not to follow through with the plans that I made with my friend Karen. Instead of going to Egypt I have now completed arrangements to go to Costa Rica. A friend of Heather's owns a house - 3 bedrooms with a pool and I am going to spend 3 1/2 weeks there resting after a very busy year. I just handed in my last assignment for the Event Planning Certificate Course I was taking through Mount Royal University in Calgary this past year and I need a rest! I visited with the people last night who own this property - John and Dana. 1 1/2 hours later I can tell I'm going to love it ... read more