El Oasis Boquete

... the point<br>across.<br><br><br><br>This week, was a fun week in Boquete. I made good friends with a super<br>cool chick from Isreal, Dania. She is also traveling solo. Dania is a<br>really funny girl. She has an odd and dorky sense of humor like I do.<br>We naturally clicked. Around the same time that Dania arrived, I met<br>Rob, who is a funny Brit. The 3 of us went out and about town several<br>times and met more of the locals. Like I said before, Boquete is such a<br ...

... is the same. I guess that means that I don´t need to<br>hurry to figure it out.<br><br><br><br>After each of these rambling entries, I wonder who in the world,<br>besides my mom and dad would want to read this ****. So...if you´ve<br>made it through to the end, thank you. If you are just skimming though<br>and you´re thinking, ¨Jeez, Farrah, nobody cares!¨ Then, you probalby<br>shouldn´t keep up with my notes anymore. ha ha!<br><br><br><br>Until next time...

... the everything. (And take a shot!) We found out fairly quickly that bartending here is easy to say the least. Most people order beer while the others mainly stick to rum and coke or gingerale, or vodka and cranberry. Luchini, being the best boss in world (aside from Libby and Debbie!), told us we could drink whatever we wanted..so we did! Within reason, of course...but the music was great and we had a blast! We worked from 10 to 4:30 and made, drumroll ...

... as well. We are back in shopping heaven. I have stocked up on herbs and spices for personal cooking and my mouth was positively watering walking about the massive supermarkets. Well we do not know how much time we have on holiday left now so we are blatting out of here pretty fast, catching a night bus to San Jose tomorrow night, so Costa Rica here we come!

... to buy a tourist visa for $5. This meant I had to go to another line. Out of the 50 people on the bus, only 7 of us needed to buy a visa. 5 of us were American, one guy was from Canada and another girl was from Japan. Here's the catch, something i still dont understand. The office to buy the visa was closed. ???? And the worker didn't show up for around 2 hours. We were all fairly upset. Rachel, would ...

Today we took the bus to Gamboa which is a small town that was originally built to house people who were working on the construction of the canal. Its a nice little town that is surrounded by dense jungle and also a great view of the canal. There were some pretty big houses here which all seemed to be occupied by expats, its a really nice ...

... of course) to be taken out on a morning bird watching tour. Already tonight, we have had a ring-side view of some of the local tropical birds after the gardener filled a hanging screen outside our window with cut bananas and oranges. Such gorgeous birds -- orange, yellow and blue tanagers plus one unbelievable bird that was brilliant violet with bright orange legs and feet. I can't wait to ask our guide tomorrow what kind of bird that was -- spectacular ...

Since we'd cancelled the Overland Club South America trip we had a lot more flexibility and dicided to visit a few more countries not on our original list. The most obvious stop for us was Pamama as our fligt to Quito in Equador had a stop over in Panama City. After investigating the best places to visit and changing our flight to add in a ...