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Trip Start Dec 21, 2008
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Trip End Jan 02, 2009


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Flag of Costa Rica  , Province of Puntarenas,
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Did something last night that I haven't done in YEARS...stayed out drinking until 4 AM.  We met a group of guys in "downtown" Montezuma who represented various parts of the world; Turkey, Germany, Costa Rica and we proceeded to talk and drink.  I apparently forgot how much I was drinking.  Anyway, what was really interesting is that unlike what I've seen in the US, just because it was midnight and a new year didn't mean it was time to go home.  So, four hours later we were still there.  We had a great time.  Everyone seemed to be having a lot of fun and I'm sure Montezuma is a very quiet place right now because of all the hangovers that people are nursing. 

Despite the late hour, we had to get up and fill the gas tank on the Jimmy because Alamo is picking it up today. <Sigh>  That means that we leave tomorrow morning.  According to the WeatherBug on the computer it's currently 12 degrees farenheit in Boston right now, which makes leaving Montezuma even more difficult.  We have a six hour layover in San Jose, so after we drop off the luggage we're going to hop into a cab to visit the Zoo.  Our host, Alex had to do the same thing with his daughters a few years ago and recommended it as a good time killer.

Well the car has been picked up without any problems and we're just hanging out at the casita.  For dinner, we needed to go back down to Montezuma since we didn't have any food left at the house.  As we were walking down the "street" with our flashlights, I saw something in the road and yelled for Doyle to stop.  Costa Rica has both venoumous and non-venoumous snakes and Doyle was about to step on one of them and from the distance I couldn't tell what it was.  The snake, feeling the vibrations from his feet, pulled back and headed into the woods so we shone our flashlights on it and it appeared to be a small boa constrictor.

Oh, BTW....The ATM was functioning, BUT it was offline.  We were told that when it does work it's only open from 8-5, but it doesn't say that anywhere on the ATM. 
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