Si Como No Hotel Manuel Antonio National Park

... out with two of our classmates, so we had a lot of fun anyway. Although this program is not exactly what we were expecting, we´ve taken the Costa Rican chill way of looking at things and are having a great time. We´re learning a lot of medical spanish, travelling on the weekends, and playing with our host brothers in between. All in all, a pretty nice lifestyle.<br><br>Also, Amanda uploaded pics to some of the older posts, so feel free to check them out!<br>

... bad part of the evening was that there were two new families at the hotel, both with little girls and the parents did not watch the girls. I was surprised at how naughty the girls were and how little the parents cared. I guess it was because the dad was too busy using the internet. Oh well, it makes me proud of how well behaved my kids are on vacation. Overall, it was a very good night and the rain actually made it a very comfortable night to eat outside.

... incredible views of two- and three-toed sloths and we even caught a glimpse of the giant blue Morpho butterfly. The park is beautiful and we finished our walk with views of herons, bats and some big angry looking iguanas before heading back to the hotel in the ever-increasing morning sunshine. For the next couple of days, however, we realised we didn't need to go anywhere to get views of the wildlife as in addition to the lizards and white-faced monkeys, our ...

... me I see nothing more than chaos. I ask the first Continental employee that I see what we are supposed to do. He barely makes eye contact, is mumbling so that I have to ask him to repeat his statement, and he could not be less friendly. Oh great, so glad I'm flying with another domestic American airline... service and hospitality will be the usual two out of ten. My heart sank as we had cruised down to LA at record speed (one and a half hours ...

... the Puntarenas area, on the Pacific coast. He'd be out on a boat for a month at a time doing commercial fishing. When I asked him the banana question, he gave me a quizzical look and said he'd never heard of such a superstition. But then he said that he could not answer with certainty as to its validity, because in fact he'd never *taken* a banana on a fishing trip -- only plantains. Perhaps I'll find the answer on the Caribbean coast....

... poco a poco estoy mejorando. (All days I'm learning many new words. The verbs are still hard for me. But little by little I'm improving.) Necesito escribir una cuenta de mi fin de sermana para la clase de espanol para manana. Escribira sobre de mi viaje a Cartago, un ciudad cerca de aqui. (I have to write a story of my weekend for spanish class for tomorrow. I'm going to write about my trip to Cartago, a nearby city.) Todavia a veces estoy ...

... recomend coming to Orosi. It wasn't high season yet and I was told there would be more people coming in a few weeks but I was the only person taking classes and one of the only people in the hostel. There is not much tourism in this city, and with the exception of some nice hikes and I think a rafting trip, not a whole lot to do. Very few people speak English. Everyone is incredibly nice and I cant think of a better place to ...

... the bar to buy beers, when I start looking around. It was all middle aged North Americans and prostitutes. I turned and looked at Andy just to confirm what I was thinking and he was already laughing. We finished our beer and went to another club. Central America so far, has way too many sex tourists! The nights ended up getting long and foggy with us all staggering home at different times of the night and morning. Burls got chased home by one ...

... awful cold which really slowed me down. I think it was my body's way of telling me I needed a break as I have not stopped since arriving in June. It was problematic in the sense that we had planned on going to the Carribean side of Costa Rica, however, we were unable to do so...I was in no shape for travelling. All I wanted was bed, ice cold showers and soup. Lots of soup. Fortunately by Thursday my cold had cleared up enough that we decided to venture into ...

... small inlet. on the way out, though, the inlet was flooded by high tide and we had to hike up our shorts and watch the people ahead of us to see where the shallower parts were. of course there were a couple of guys waiting to paddle us across for a tip, but it was only about 100 feet from one side to the other. once we got into the park, we booked a guide--we weren't planning to take a guided tour, but he offered us a cutrate (i think they usually book ...