Mark another awesome weekend down in the books. I’m pretty sure that those are the only types of weekends that Costa Rica is willing to provide. Assuming that you leave the Hose, that is.
We hopped on a bus Friday afternoon in 75 degree San Jose and disembarked in 800 degree Manuel Antonio. I’m barely exaggerating. That place is HOT. It was dark so there wasn’t too much to do besides check ourselves into our hotel. I’m using the term hotel very loosely. I think I wrote on Friday that we didn’t have a hotel and we were going to get one when we got there. We didn’t have to wait, Luis hooked us up with a hotel for a sweet $25 a night, total. All he said was that it was ugly. He wasn’t lyin’. Not only was the Tico Lodge ugly, it was HOT (no AC for $25 a night) and there were community bathrooms. Ugh. But we were saving ourselves like $35 for the weekend so we figured we could rough it. It should cool off when it gets a little later, right? Hahahaha, yeah right. There was the added bonus of it being filled with extremely loud Tico families. How fortunate.
After a super sweaty night we woke up and headed to the park, which was cool as (and hot as) hell. I saw lizards and monkeys and 4 sloths and a herd of coatis, which is like a cute raccoon type thing. I’m not sure they travel in herds. Maybe they’re flocks. Or gaggles. A gaggle of coatis. That sounds good. How about someone look that up and get back to me. Great, thanks. Oh yeah, we also saw a GIGANTIC spider. It must have been 7 inches across, not including its legs. I had a bird in its web that it looked like it was about to eat. I would have tried to save the bird but I heard that all of the spiders in Manuel Antonio are really poisonous.

Just kidding Cherie!!!

The rest of the day was spent strolling around the beach and hitting up the 2 for 1 happy hour. It was pretty damn fun. I’m pretty sure that I’m not going to be able to handle a normal weekend when I get home. Friday will roll around and I’ll feel automatically entitled to heat and beauty. So if someone could buy me an island before I get back so I don’t suffer from reverse culture shock I’d really appreciate it. Well, I guess it’s time to move on to bigger and better things than blog writing. I don’t want to give away too much so my mom and Cherie can be surprised by Manuel Antonio when they get here.

Oh yeah, Carrie can’t come down when she thought she was going to so now you have to come entertain me Dad. Otherwise I will be allllll by myself. You wouldn’t want that to happen WOULD YOU?
- posted by Jaime @ 6:19 AM