Beach Bummin in Tamagringo

Hotel Tamarindo Diria- Gorgeous!

On Wednesday I lived my first earthquake experience, it wasn't anything drastic like walls crackling and things falling but I was awaken at 1 am by my bed and room SHAKING. I was just laying there like ohhh shooootttttt ! what the heck is going on! It was only a few seconds, but to say the least it was pretty scary. But I won't lie I'm waiting on my next one lol.

Friday Our spanish class went to the market in the city.
 I honestly don't like the city. Down town San Jose has WAY to much going on for me.
 its dirty and theres cars, and trucks, and motorcycles and I just get frazzled in the matter of seconds and Theres shops galore The little market is like a maze.. it has everything in there. There are food stands, florists, meat markets, vegetable and fruit stands , clothing stores, souvenirs ! EVERYTHING! I get lost just walking through there.. like did I walk through here already ?

@ Sharky's W. Anabel & Bri

This weekend we went to Tamarindo beach, which is located on the pacific coast ..meaning that it is very far from San jose. Took about 5-6 hours to get there. To put that in perspective of  exactly how LONG that was we managed to watch 3 movies !
Tamarindo is very americanized for tourism , so its called "Tamagringo" which I totally attest to, because everything is in english & in dollars. *sighs* For the most part sometimes it feel like i'm back home-- minus the freezing cold weather. but we made the best out of what was there we went to the beach and the pool rockin our awesome Pura Vida Mae "bro shirts". We didn't do any excursions this week because there wasn't anything that really grabbed my attention. There was surf lessons and a catamaran. Lets just say we did a lot of laying out and napping in our rooms. By night it was time to figure out what to get into.. Saturday night we went to a bar called Sharky's which was hosting  Ladies night, which means girls drink for free. which isn't a big deal because the mix some bottom shelf lq and orange juice and there you go ! eww. and to top it off the music .. ohh my goshhh help me ! I don't know how much longer I can cope with the english 24/7 music in central america..
but long story short Tamarindo was nice.. but nothing special .. I have many other places on my "must visit" list and now Tamarindo is checked off of it.  Its always a bus adventure on the way back, we got stuck at the back of the bus which was not cool ;[ but we survived.

Lets just say now I've mastered Subway Surf on my iPhone ! Oh & to top it off I somehow managed to forget my house keys on my nightstand at the hotel ... soo now I'm trying to make arrangements with the hotel to get them mailed to me .. Sighs* I have the worst luck with keys ! but overall it all went well we are off to MonteVerde next weekend, which will be the last of our ISA planned excursions, the luxurious hotels and pre planned weekends will come to a close </3 bitter sweet.

I came home yesterday clearly distraught about my keys .. and Cammie told me she had a stomach ache so I graciously offered her a chewable pepto bismol.. all was fine and dandy .. until she woke up this morning with a black tongue, yup ! a black tongue .. apparently its a common side effect? .. sorry ?

Ps. I bought a much needed hooded zip up hoodie today ! happy times !

Sunset @ Tamarindo Beach

Ciao !