Pueblo Dorado Tamarindo

... inside, just sitting there all cool, slowly eating...I am sweating profusely my body is detoxing and wants me to suffer.
I seriously can't stop sweating. But I shouldnt be such a Barney Blandy, I had an amazing trip, it was great to see Brendan and meet new people and start new friendships, that is the best part of WRSC and CR, the people you meet along the way. We had great weather, no rain at all and had waves everyday, I got more waves in the first 2 ...

... drinks up in the Penthouse, met a few more cool people, Shelly is an expat chick, very cool, and she quit her job and moved here in May and is loving it, surfing everyday and then will try to find a job in high season. So we headed up to PasaTiempo for open mic night, we were trying to get Brendan to sing again, but it was a total cluster with the band, we drank some beer and it was so freaking hot, and quite honestly it just wasnt the same without the rest of the crew, I ...

... water makes me nervous! I could have walked down the steps in the front of the boat but what kind of challenge is that?! Plus, I plan on jumping off some cliffs into water pools on this trip so I better take my baby steps when I can. The snorkeling did not compare at all to Fiji but I still enjoyed it. As I got near the boat, I felt a sharp pain in my left boob. WTF!?! I am holding my boob, peaking in my swimsuit and trying to determine what just happened ...

... dturen så blev ikke på stranden så lang tid. Da vi kom hjem lavede vi lækker mad med masser af bearnaise sovs til, så det var noget Tanja kunne li! Senere gik Camilla i seng, da hun havde ondt i mavsen, men mig og Tanja fortsatte i byen med nogle af de andre fra skolen. Vi tog dog ikke så sent hjem da vi var trætte. Tirsdag En af Tanjas veninder fra skolen har tidligere været ude og se en "monkey-park" som er et slags dyrehospital/internat hvor de har ...

... took close to 2 hours to get to the far end of the beach which happened to have a large hotel complex abutting onto it. We were exhausted, sun bleached or burnt and hungry. The nachos just didn't amount to long term energy. As the sun began to lower in the sky we began to the long hike back to the estuary. We moved a little faster this time and were able to get across onto Playa Tamarindo just as the sun touched on the far side of the ocean.

Christmas dinner was ...

... and the tour guides would periodically stop the truck and jump off to pilfer fruit from the orchards lining the road. They shared the spoils with us, which consisted of a horned melon (which tasted a bit like pineapple) and unripe mangoes (which our guide Mario told us tastes good with salt-I found them too bitter to eat, myself). It was a great time, and I highly recommend it for anyone with a sense of adventure. After rappelling, I headed ...

... as it was a fierce Sandinista stronghold) such as in the revolutionary museum , the university , the various statues/buildings/monuments and the murals painted around the city ... elsewhere in Nicaragua there seem to be surprisingly few cues to it´s recent political history. So that was Nicaragua and I would have liked to have spent more time there to get more beneath the surface but looking forward to my adventures in Costa Rica.

... got to spend about 11 days traveling through the country with some of the other volunteers. Our first stop was Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, which is a town on the Caribbean near Panama. The Caribbean side of Costa Rica is mainly inhabited by Jamaican immigrants who came here a long time ago, so it felt more like I was on a Caribbean island than in Central America. We stayed in a hostel called Rockin J´s, and slept in hammocks. The hammock area ...

... a family renting out the entire set of back rooms, so we couldn´t use any of the hammocks and back tables. They were also antsy for everyone who wasn´t the family to get a move on so it wasn´t quite the relaxing experience we dreamed of since we were kicked out a 10:30am, and weren´t going back to SJDS until 5pm. Anyhow, our friend from school Mike ended up showing up last night and they had no ´doghouses´ left and he didn´t have a tent and had no way ...

... aparently had a full tank of gas, we managed to run out on the way home, and quinnie had the bright idea to try and syphon some petrol from a passer by. now she has been coughing all afternoon and dry reaching something of a petrol vapour...hope no one tries to light her a cigaret today. lol But as i am typing this, is proof to those few of you that may be worried, we did survive that mishap and are another day closer to getting back home in one piece.