Blogs from Quepos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Central America Caribbean - page 9

We're playing catchup with photos here. We got back from the Arenal trip around 4 and shortly after our Tico family invited us out the Quepos Festival. There was some live music, rides (bumper cars was the best) junk food, and bull riding. I'll let the captions and the pictures tell most of the story. The next day we had a 3 hour surf lesson and local surf spot that took us through some pretty interesting neighborhoods to get too. The waves were bigger than in Manuel Antonio beach and there was no one else but Nikki, me and the three locals that came with us. Valentine's day was Juan's mother's 69th birthday and he surprized her with a party and mariachi singers. Juan also took Nikki for a spin on the dance floor. Friday night ... read more

Hola! Things are still going really well here. I haven´t been feeling great again this week, but not nearly as bad as last week. A couple of days ago I had my first agua pipa, which is the water that you drink from a young coconut thru a straw. It´s refreshing and sweet and apparently it´s a lot like getting a blood transfusion. Soldiers used to use it as an IV to regain their strength. It definitely made me feel a lot better. Oh, and one correction from my last entry: sloths don´t grow algae in their fur, it´s actually moss. Not that that´s any better...however I´m actually becoming a sloth enthusiast. The other day when I was in Spanish class, there was a sloth hanging from the power lines, trying to cross the street to ... read more

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