Tuesday February 8th - Vacation Time

We woke up…well, rather the rooster woke us up….and we realized “Shit! We have been here for 3 days and not written a single blog entry. Being 2 of the world’s best procrastinators we decided this was something we could not put off any longer so we got to work and wrote this delightful blog that you have been reading up through February 7th. The we headed to a meeting with Barbara Miller, the TEFL director, to get our skrilla back (for those who don’t know her very well, skrilla is what Kelly Puckett says instead of money). Barbara’s TEFL investors were not too thrilled about giving us back our skrilla so we left without any and with a rescheduled meeting for the following day to see where we stood. Then we headed to the beach and ate delicious club sandwiches and fries at a sandy-floored café. Here we had our second realization for the day: we were eating more than the constantly grazing cow-goats that inhibit our backyard. We decided that it was time to explore grocery options to save our money and our beach bods, which were looking less than beachy. After a long afternoon of magazine reading on the beach we headed to one of the groceries here, “Pali!”, which was a lot like Wal-mart except everything was totally disorganized and random and was being displayed and sold out of the cardboard boxes it had been shipped in. We later found out that Pali! actually was owned by Wal-Mart and was the Central American version. We stocked up on a few necessities and headed to our next destination, “Super Delfin” grocery store, which is up the same dirt road that we live on. Here we bought some crucial Lysol disinfecting wipes and we headed home trying to carry our random edible and household purchases in baskets on our heads like African women. After getting home we felt kind of ambitious and decided to go for a run to check out the third, and most popular grocery store “La Verde Iguana.” This run was a very hot choice and we arrived realizing we hadn’t brought any cash with us. We snooped around a little and then ran back to our apartment, sweatier than ever. Cold showers then off to the internet café to do a little skypeing and post our blog and pics. Then we decided to walk back to the other side of the town to stock up on groceries at “La Verde Iguana” which the Tico store clerk said closed at “diaz.” Arriving at 9:20pm we found it closed. P.S. we are doing a looottt of walking here because as much as it’s a small town things aren’t exactly close together and we aren’t very organized in our route planning, clearly. So we headed back to the other side of town once again to find some late-night dinner as the random items we had purchased earlier were not enough to make a meal of. We ran into Jessica, a TEFL graduate from the US, who gave us a useful hint, if we wanted to tan we needed to hit the beach at 8am. We were exhausted after our grocery exploration day and we went to sleep thankful for our early morning rooster wake up call so we could catch some prime tanning rays the next day...


The front of our apartment -- we live in the bottom left side


Our best grocery- The Green Iguana :)