Tamar-rama-rindo

After lunch in Jaco (more fish tacos), we headed back out on to the road. We stopped at the infamous crocodile bridge and saw some crocs and a great egret. On the road, we past a lot of jungle, ocean, more flooding, and the elusive Jurassic Park sign- wouldnt we have heard about it if they had dinosaurs in rural Costa Rica? I guess we missed the exit and ended up in Libera for dinner. We ate a soda and all had casados...

Crocs and bird

Mudslide from the storm

Yaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr

More flooding along the coast

Dinner in Liberia

I'm gonna try and get a job here!

We got to Tamarindo in the dark and had no idea where to stay, we looked at two rooms at two different places but didnt quite like them. Finally we ended up at the Best Western because it had a pool and we thought the room would be nice- wow, we were wroooooooong... the room was up a hill and we were sick of looking, so we just took it and it was the SMALLEST room known to mankind, it was pretty hilarious when we stepped in because nobody could move around if we were all standing in there. Haha, well the pool was nice and it had a cool bar/restaurant area. The next day we went to the beach and got sunburnt... we also drove over to Playa Grande, which was much less crowded and just looked like a postcard. The next day we drove out to Playa Negra which was also really nice, and Chris and Em went surfing. The road was unpaved and quite bumpy but it was a fun adventure...

Just a bit sunburned

The SMALLEST hotel room ever

Yay Swim up Bar

At the beach

:( Flat Tire

We finally solved the mystery of the Jurassic Park on our way back, and stopped at it. It was kinda ironic how many live animals were on this dinosaur, including bats hanging from its chin, and iguanas in its mouth and on its nose. Here we are running in terror. Apparently, you can drive around and see a bunch of these dinosaurs, which would have been awesome if we had had the time, but it was kinda out in the middle of nowhere, so I wonder how much business they get.

Back at Em's place, my final deed was to CHOP ALL HER HAIR OFF!!! Actually, I just cut off a few deserving inches to her beautiful long locks. It was soooo hard to leave but we had a great time!

Jaco-licious

I was sooooo excited to see Emily as we landed in San Jose. We went straight to Pangea Hostel (our usual) and Em was there waiting for us. We had dinner accompanied by some Pilsens and good conversation. The next day we tried to go to my favorite, Soda Amon, but sadly it was closed, so we wandered over to the main drag (see the dome in the park below) and found random statues of cows "dressed up" as various other things. It was wierd and awesome.

My personal favorite, pigeon cow

Mardi Gras Cow

After a fabulous breakfast and some more wandering, we headed to the bus station only to find that the next bus was in 10 minutes and completely full, so we had to wait for an hour and a half at the bus station- not the funnest place. Thank god we had travel scrabble. The bus ride to Jaco was a nice re-aquaintance with the beauty of Costa Rica.

We settled in at Emily's, and headed to Ganesha, a bar owned by her friend that was right on Jaco Beach, and we caught the most gorgeous sunset. We wandered around town for a while, got some Musmanni (!), checked out the art festival, and ended up going to Playa Hermosa for a night time surfing contest. It was really cool even when it started raining. We were still trying to adjust from the city to Costa Rica

Spider web at Ganesha

FWOG!

Oooh

Night Surf Contest

The next day was, of course, dedicated to the beach- we finally got some sun, Chris went surfing, and Emily and I noticed the difference in skin tone of our legs and feet and proceeded to take a million pics of this amazing phenomena- I only included the best ones. This must have been a day of taking way to many pics of a certain thing, because we also have a 20 picture series of Chris eating pizza.

Sisters Feet at Beach

The next day Chris went on a canopy zipline tour and Em and I hung out at her place and played with the cutest puppy EVERRRRRRRRRR- except it was kinda bitey. Chris and I went to Carerra National Park the next day, and though it was beautiful hiking through the rain forest, it was kinda rainey and dark and we didnt see too much wildlife. Not to mention the fact that we missed the bus, there was no phone to call a cab, it started to pour, we had one umbrella and it took us 2 hours to get back :)Carerra Natl Park

Fun on the bus

You say its your birthday...