Did you know that no matter how many miles you are traveling in Central America, if you are doing it on a bus it takes at least 12 hours. I mean I am not lying to you about this. Yesterday we left San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua at 8am in a taxi. We went to Rivas and got dropped off on a corner to catch a bus. Waited there until 9:15am. Got on a bus and we were supposed to be on this bus for six hours. That would put us in Costa Rica's capital by 4 at the latest. But we are in Central America right! So at about 2:30pm we hear a small BOOM. Oh yea...you know it, hombre strait up hit the back of the bus!! So we sit there and I am actually just hanging out with a little girl named Kali doing paint on the computer. She only spoke Spanish so it was quite the experience. You think talking to a toddler in English is a lot to take on! Try it in Spanish. None the less we don't get to Costa Rica until 5:30pm. We have to get our bags get into a taxi and make it to the Coke bus station by 6pm. We have a two and a half hour bus ride to Manuel Antonio. We pulled up as a man shakes his head no and says the two words he knows in English Seven Thirty, as we watched the bus pull away. So we waited, another two hours and got on the bus at 7:33pm. Onto to Manuel Antonio, aka taking on the Daytona 500 via city bus. Oh boy-Costa Rica bus drivers are crazy, even when its raining cats and dogs.
So we make it to Quepos and we have to get in a taxi and go 6 KM to get to our Hostel. What do you know, we are staying at a place called sol y mar. That would be great if like 18 places didnt have similar names!!!! So our taxi driver takes us way past it and calls like 18 people and it raining like crazy. It is 10:30 at night, he tries to drop us off at the wrong place twice.
Finally figure it out, this place has a sign that is pretty much the same as have your address behind the gated community that no one can get into. BUT!!! We found it! We walked in the poring rain for what seemed like 30 minutes to find a place for dinner! (We hadn't gotten around to that yet.) We go up to a tapas bar and take off our soaking wet clothes and shoes only for them to tell us as we are sitting down that they are no longer serving food. We suit back up and head back into the storm! Walking again...find the one dragon shirt club pumping with three people on the dance floor. We got green crazy lights, fog machine I mean people this place had the works!
So we finally sit down, thank goodness it was a tasty dinner! We enjoyed two beers over the thumping of Lady Gaga and Black eyed peas club re mixes and then head on our way.
Arrive at our hostel Sol Y Mar hostel, praying for nice comfy bed. We get out of our wet clothes again and crawl in the bed and what do you know...we hear the crinkling of a like wet the bed protector under our sheets! I would believe that my friends is the CHERRY ON TOP!
It was our last day of long travels for the duration of our trip! What a memorable way to end it!!! We are excited to be in Costa Rica. What we have seen so far is fantastic, today we are off on a animal hunt. Sloths, Monkeys and iguana!!1
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