Today we all decided to do our own things. Matt mainly lazed about the hostel while the rest of us randomly wandered around town. Justin, Morris, and I found our way to a black sand beach that entertained us for an hour before we found out the sand was just too fine. It stuck to everything and didn't come off very well. I headed back to the hostel while they went to a local diner for food. Later in the day Justin and I headed back into town to checkout all the stores. After aimlessly wandering again for over an hour we headed back to the hostel to chill in hammocks. Halfway back it began to downpour so we were stuck hiding under a tree on the beach. By the time it let up enough for ... read more

Pretty entertaining wake up this morning. We were headed for San Jose on the 6:30am bus so I had set my alarm for 5:45am to get up and run up the road to the bus. I woke up to the alarm but the other guys didn't. As I was groggily finding my bearings, Matt's alarm went off. Now there are only four of us in the room in each corner. Justin and Morris  have no alarm, mine is in my hands, And that leaves Matt. So the alarm is going off in Matt's corner for awhile when I finally tell him to turn it off. His response was "it's not mine" ... Even after I explain mine is in my hands he is still convinced he shut his off last night. Finally he sits up and ... read more

It's time to move on again! This time our destination is Monteverde. Not the most exciting day as we were on a bus then boat the bus again for the entire day. The road up to Santa Elaina is nice though with sprawling jungle valleys all around. As we got up into the cloud forest it turned cold and we all resorted to sweaters for the first time in weeks. From our hostel in Santa Elaina we will do day trips out into the forest. For tonight it is strait to bed, as we got into town late. Not much to say in this blog because we all slept most of the ride. But we are now in The Monteverde park :).... read more

Well our morning started off pretty good as we wandered down to the market for breakfast. After buying a bunch of stuff we headed back to the hostel and cooked a huge breakfast for two bucks each. Following that, we switched hostels to one right on the beach and got our gear ready for a day of hiking. Our first stop was a waterfall in the jungle. The five of us headed up to them and spent a few hours jumping off rocks into the pools and wandering through the many falls. Our photography skills were non existent but a different tourist got some good ones of us jumping through the waterfall. It was super fun other than Morris breaking his sandals. After the falls we headed back to the hostel to refill water bottles and ... read more

Well this day was pretty much a bust. We all woke up at random late times and wandered to the market for food. All of us spent most of the day in various forms of relaxation/recovery. My choice being to lie on the couch with a bag of cereal and gatorade watching the football playoff. Throughout the day the others woke up only to find a hammock or spot on the couches to read or surf the net. At 2:30 Jeff and James headed out on there way back to Canada. I forgot to give them stuff for home but oh well. We did a bit of planning that night for the morning but all in all it was a day of nothing.  ... read more