YO! Michelle and I, Michelle M, arrived in Costa Rica safely after our first flight out of Nicaland was canceled. TACA airlines put us up in a SWEET Best Western that had a pool, air conditioning and full size beds! WHOOPIE! We also got FREE food and a FREE bus ride to our hotel here in Manuel Antonio. On the way up the curvy roads of Costa Rica, I got motion sickness and started to hyper ventilate. We had to stop so I could sit outside for a bit. The crazy driver was obviously not used to driving in the country. A HUMONGO rainstorm also passed whilst in the bus and Michelle and I felt so bad that MR. Driver had to make his way back 3 hours to a house full of kids that we gave him a 20 dollar tip!
Our hostel bed and breakfast, CAsa Buena Vista, is basically a tree house in the rainforest. Our walls are not walls, they are screens in the rainforest, in the mountains. AMAZING! We saw and heard some EXTREMELY LOUD howler monkeys outside our window both days at 5 am! AH! Also, there must be a birds nest right above our room, because those little buddies are super loud in the morning time...Our landlady is an expat from CALIFORNIA that has billions of cats running around and smelling stuff up. The chef, Nuria, said that one of them peed on her face when she was sleeping on the floor because there were so many guests in her house...
Yesterday we made it to the Manuel Antonio Beach where we body surfed and thought about taking a surf lesson, but then decided to wait until Montezuma! We headed back around 3 due to a huge rainstorm that lasted all night long. Our musty room was like a perfect little island amidst the crazy storm. We sat on the bed and planned out the rest of the trip and ate Michelle Gs walnuts since we couldnt make it out of the house to get real food. We made some phonecalls from the common room and arranged a stay in a sweet bungalow in Montezuma for a decent price. The first place, EL SANO BANANO, has all vegetarian food options and is in the downtown area of the hippie town. The second place is 5 minutes away, LOS MANGOS, and has yoga classes morning and night! We are definitely looking forward to surf lessons and the relaxingness of the pura vida here in COSTA RICA!
To save money we bought a bunch of groceries and non perishables to eat for the next couple days...with the budget eating, hiking, swimming, tanning, surfing and yoga, we expect to be really attractively gorgeously nice looking by the time we get to Ecuador! Then, maybe, our host family wont hate us for forgetting a Wisconsin THANK YOU gift...
