No, it is not a surfboard injury

Trip Start Feb 03, 2008
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Flag of Costa Rica  , Province of Guanacaste,
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Eeeheheehee, such an Andrea moment.  I have a large knot on the top left of my forehead.  And it is definitely not a cool surfboard injury.  I smacked myself into a glass pane yesterday trying to get into a bank.  Classic.  I am sure I had a wonderfully bewildered face about it, too!  Later as I was showering, I felt something on my forehead and was thinking, hmm, did I get another squito bite???  Once I applied pressure and felt some pain, it all came back to me! :)

The snorkel/sunset sail was...interesting.  It is so Spring Break times so my fear was a bunch of obnoxious American college boys.  The end result was drunk, obnoxious, making out older people from my hostel, some of which are definitely over 35?!  I made friends with a family from near Vancouver and with a couple that lives near Edmonton.  As I may have mentioned before, where as sky-diving did not give me a thrill at all, just jumping off the back of a boat into 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 when I notice the 10-year-old on the boat peering over...that must have been a sight for him!!  (It must have been jellyfish as I was having similar responses on a couple other parts of my body a little later.  Freaky feeling.)  Now not only am I alone and need to navigate around the boat to the steps, with my flippers, snorkel mask and funoodle (yep, snorkeling with funoodles!!  Trina, babe, do you remember the days of us running around wal-mart with those things!?) but I also have the pain in my boob.  Ay carumba!

Anyhoo, hung out with the Canadian couple some more and found out they were going north to the beaches I was planning on checking out next so they offered to take me with them the next morning in their jeep.  I also ended up having dinner with them that evening in Tamarindo and had a great time checking out Playa Conchal.  Plus, just getting to bounce along in the jeep was an experience to be had.

I rented another surfboard for an hour.  My first hard board with wax (vs. softboard sans wax) and I seemed to stay on it better.  I would like to think that has to do with gaining some balance but it was probably just stickier. :)  Not too many waves and then I kept missing the right time to stand up but good trial and error.  I did manage a couple of barely standing up moments and left satisfied.

Two guys from Atlanta arrived at the hostel yesterday and we chatted for awhile last night.  Christians, so that made for some interesting conversation.  The one is cute, 25, tall, seems intelligent, loves traveling, did a 6 month engineering mission trip here before...he would be so perfect for some of my girlfriends!!

Plan today is to walk 25 minutes to Playa Longosta, likely meet up with my connection here for lunch, surf lesson at 1 and then reggae night with my Danish friends.

hugs from your slightly tanned and mosquito-bitten friend!!!
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