Funky Monkey Lodge Santa Teresa

... off. i forget the word of the other one , but it means you lather up with soap and shampoo. but here in CR, it is likely you will douche several times a day. . .

2. unless it rains. that makes everything much cooler. there are wicked thunder storms (and i don't mean wicked mad cool in a boston way). or maybe i do. sometimes it DUMPS and the storm is right on top of the house and it's so loud on the metal roof. it's pretty rad ...

... to get on my horse. Well, I can tell you, it is much easier to get on a horse than it is to get on an elephant (see last year’s blog). I had a beautiful black/dark brown horse that seemed very strong.

When we started out, Joshua was leading Shaeleigh and her horse, and our guide was leading Malesa. They were very careful with the girls to make sure they were comfortable riding the horse.

I felt sorry for my horse as he had to carry ...

... tree. They were abandoned and had worms. One of them was injured in his eye and we thought he was going to loose his sight. Though our loving care they flourished and grew to be quite large. We bottle fed them every two hours and gave drops to the boy squirrel with the bad eye. Funny enough, I had an eye infection and went to the pharmacy and they gave me the same drops....worked for me as well.. During our time off, which we were able to squeeze in a little. We did some things ...

... Jose litt senere. Ettter et bussbytte, en ferje, og enda en buss, saa aapenbarte Stillehavet seg. Fikk rom paa Hostel Lys. Et trivelig lite sted helt nede paa stranda. Her er masse pelikaner og iguaner i forskjellige stoerrelser. Fortsettelse foelger.

... 1000 collones to much. Thats a english quid. Not much to worry about. As we're in the car on the way to the next bus station so i can get the connecting bus to the pacific side he starts telling me that the bus leaves at 3.30pm and theres no way it will make it as the bus has to go on a boat to cross over and according to taxi driver the boat only leaves at 10pm, so i'll have to stay over night. ********! Luckily i took a gamble and ignored him, i got ...

We made it! After a brief stopover in San Jose on the 10th, we made our way (via a bus, then a ferry, then a bus) to Montezuma, thanks in large part to an older hippy woman (mom-she reminded me of you or someone you would be friends with :)) that helped us navigate our way here since the public trans tends to operate without schedules or signs. Montezuma is a cute, funky beach town made up of two streets with hostels ...

... inside an old American war plane (C-123 if you want the specifics) which was abandoned during the Reagan Administrations days, so it doesn´t exactly exist to the American government anymore. Today we are in San Jose just chilling before our flight back to Quito tomorrow and then we will carry on down (mostly by bus) to Chile for our flight to New Zealand. We arranged to meet up with Dave & Aoife one last time before we ...

... reef. A few small waves were coming in and she was washed up and stuck on the coral. I swam over to her and got myself stuck too. More coral cuts and scratches. I had a panicking dog in my arms and we made it to deeper water. Of course we made it back to the mainland and had a long long walk back to the hostel on our busted, bleeding feet. The sand was super heated and the warm water was far from refreshing. We had a nap, and Nerita invited herself in and slept on the floor of our room.

I had my first test in Intermediate 2 this week. It was a really frustrating morning. I had decided to go with a group of people to a Pacific beach town called Montezuma for the weekend. We figured we could leave fairly early because we had our midterm in Spanish that Friday. We planned on it taking no more than an hour and a half. Well, my teacher wouldn't let my class start the exam until 9:30. I was really annoyed because she insisted that we review for the first ...

... day... The morning started off with bad surf, junk conditions and Cali surfers in the water. So we decided to head into town to pull out some much needed $$ *the town we're in has no ATM* but when we got to Cabano, about 30 minutes later, the ATM didn't work. We tried our best to ask around in Spanish where the next ATM was, but no one could answer us. Now we were in real trouble! Almost everywhere only accepts cash in town and we ...