Hotel Cantarana Playa Grande

... experience).<br>All the while, you are attempting to pull your surfboard along behind<br>you like a disobedient puppy as the waves try to take it away from you.<br>Even better, in my case, the shark fin thingy on the bottom kept biting<br>me (and I have the bruises and cuts to prove it). Then, finally, after<br>you've swallowed fifteen gallons of saltwater, lost your hairthing due<br>to be tossed about in the waves like a ragdoll (and thus look like a<br>moron with hair ...

Well, we started off the morning with a two hour horseback ride through the countryside of Costa Rica. We left the resort at 8:00 a.m. and a bus took us about ten minutes away down a bunch of residential dirt roads to some house. Our guide was named Eddie and he has been doing this for six years. The ride ended up on the beach outside our resort so that was nice not to have ...

... my vigil to catch a picture of the raccoon rodent things on my patio but I don't have the cat here tonight to growl and let me know they are coming so if I stop typing all of the sudden it is probably because they are right under me and I am freaking out and running inside. I don't know how to entice them but they sure seem to find their way up here on my own. If I am not successful you can just google them for a picture.

... so they blend into the grass. There are a ton of them hanging out by the pond next to our villa. Don&#8217;t worry though, I made myself put down the camera after a while so I won&#8217;t bore you too terribly with hundreds of shots of the same iguana in different poses. They are cool though. I was told that our resident patio visitors for the day included more cats, a skunk and two raccoons. And we are upstairs so they have to really ...

... us. It&#8217;s a rough life&#8230;&#8230; <br><br>So that was a little lively, as I was finishing up typing this I hear the cat on the chair next to me growling. I look down and to my horror see a raccoon about two inches from my feet running around on our patio. Yes, I quickly made it inside and now I am watching him paw through all of our things.<br><br>Oh and here is the website for the resort we are staying at. http://www.paradisus-playa-conchal.com/

... called Ometepe...supposedly there are earthquakes there every day...hmmm, sounds somewhat dangerous...right up our alley! In the morning, I rode into town and purchased a new H7 halogen bulb for the headlight that had burned out a couple of days earlier, and everyone at the auto shop was enamored by the bike! I had to answer the question of how much it cost and how fast does it go about 5 times, but they were super helpful, and when I left, I did a stand-up ...

Playa del coco is not a nice beach town at all. The only reason to go there is to go to Witchs Rock for surfing ( Endless Summer 2) or ro go diving. We went there to surf witchs, so we payed 300 bucks between five of us and there was feck all swell !!!!! Not worth the trip. It was cool to see Witchs rock though

... may be rabies). Just 2 nights ago I had sneaked him some of my rice dinner to fatten him up a bit. I doubt whether he'll make it in the next few days. In the late afternoon I made the usual failed attempt to upload my blog (internets too slow and I couldn't load my mobile software)..gave that up and went to my new cheap favourite restaurant for an early dinner. I ordered pasta and salad tonight just as a test to see if they would put the prices up for that aswell. Was a good meal ...

... thinking about whatever comes to mind. I also read and play Playstation One at a student's house. I play soccer when I'm not injured, but I seem to be injuring myself minorly a lot for some reason. <br><br>Good things about living in the U.S.:<br><br>Paved roads (although too much is no good either)<br><br>Reliable utilities (as stated above, water in my house is unreliable and electricity goes out sometimes)<br><br>Garbage disposal and recycling ...

... the American family was staying right next door to us. Curbside service! The family - mother, father, and two teenage girls - had decided to move to Costa Rica for a year because the father had done his LDS mission in Ecuador, where he'd learned Spanish, and they wanted to just "try it out." Or rather, the parents did. The girls were definitely not thrilled about being dragged off to live in Central America and do school online where they didn't speak ...