¡Kelly goes Costarazy!

Three of my best friends from home were able to come to Costa Rica for three weeks so every weekend Christina and I would meet up with Kajori, Sarah and Lily to travel.  Our first trip was to Montezuma. On friday August 29th Christina and I met them in San Jose and got on a 2 hour bus ride to Puntarenas. We got the five seats all in a row in the very back and commenced girl talk for the entire ride. We hadn’t seen eachother for a long while and it was slightly surreal to see them all here in Costa Rica! We all agreed that we were living a teenage girl novel like ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ or something and we were lovin’ it!

Upon arriving in Puntarenas we set to finding the hostel we had reservations for but a security guard at the bus station told us there was one way better and way closer. We went to that one instead.  After checking in there we searched for dinner which only means one thing in Costa Rica; casados! Casados are meals with rice, beans, salad and these amazing fried bananas with your choice of chicken, fish, steak or veggies.  These are served in restaurants called Sodas which are all owned by locals and have authentic Costa Rican food. We always went to Sodas to have the best (and cheapest) meals.

The next day we took an hour ferry ride to Paquera which was lovely. We met like 7 doctors and 1 business man, Schille from Switzerland. They had been traveling for a long time and were able to give us a lot of advice about where to go.

After the ferry ride we went on another 1 hour bus ride and then we arrived in beautiful Montezuma! We went straight to the beach! However, the waves were so strong and hurled sticks and logs at us so even wading was a gamble. Lily got a pretty bad bruise from a log and I got cut up a little but we were so glad to be there!

That night we went dancing at Chico’s Bar and Lily took me to order my first drink! It was AWFUL! I ordered a strawberry daquari and got some sort of sick chocolate drink. Lily had been craving a margarita but received a martini instead! It was so loud that both orders got messed up and Lily and I just sucked it up and then went dancing!

The next day we went hiking – and I mean HIKING to a beautiful waterfall. We had to go up these monstruous hills and after going up for quite a while we were told that we went too far! So we went back down a ways to find the path to the waterfall.

It was gorgeous! And such a prize for having walked so long in the heat (and having danced so much the night before!) There was a sort of pool in between two falls where we were able to swim and it was sooo refreshing and crazy awesome to swim in a waterfall! Jori and Sarah took tremendous leaps from the first fall into the pool below. I was content with just swimming.  This was definately one of the coolest experiences of my trip so far!

That night in the hotel Lily, Sarah and I had to listen to crazys upstairs who had lost their passports. What drama! This one girl just went bizerk on these two guys she was traveling with and was screaming, stomping and slapping these two guys! I can understand an initial reaction to such a disaster, but this went on for hours! Somehow Sarah got to sleep while Lily and I stayed up emotionally disturbed! We both decided we couldn’t go to sleep with that in our heads so I told Lily stories about my older brother Kevin and his best friend Matt from when they were younger. They have so many hilarious stories so we were able to laugh and regain peace enough to sleep. (P.S. I started telling stories about you and Matt Kev, but ended up telling Lily how awesome you are. I love you!)

The next day Christina and I had to get up early and make the journey back home. We ended up having to stand for an hour long bus ride, but after that we got good. Christina and I are now skilled in the art of bus riding.