{The Tranquila Archives}

Grace and I decided to be wild children and go get my nose pierced and her ear at the San Pedro Mall.  I can't believe I really did it, but it hardly hurt, it never turned red, and I ABSOLUTELY love it !  Then we took a bus from San Pedro to San Jose and got helado rico at Pop's ice cream.  I am OBSESSED with their café ice cream, it is devine.  I'm not gonna lie, I have had their ice cream just about every week since I've been here, starting with Day 2 when we had our city tour and Maggie bought us ice cream.  It is that. Good. We met everyone at the Teatro Nacional and went to see The Odessey.  It was a puppet play in spanish, but I read some of it in high school (good Lord, how long ago was that ?) and it was comically geared towards a younger audience, so I was able to understand it for the most part.  My favorite line was at the end, when his wive sees him again: "Mi corazón sabe que vos sos vos!"  In Costa Rica they have ANOTHER conjugation for

The week literally flew by, and before I knew it I was leaving my last day of our month-long Spanish class and saying goodbye to the most gorgeous professor ever (we call him Enrinque Iglesias haha).  We had our last oral presentation explaining recipes, and because I was literally obsessed with the Agua de Sapo from the last weekend, Anita and I chose to make that for our presentation.  It was dericious, and it felt good to have Tico approval of our rendition of this Caribbean Treat!   Caribbean Food accompanied by Agua de Sapo, a sweet ginger drink that is a favorite of the locals After class, Anita and I walk downtown and check out the Museo National, which starts out with a butterfly garden, and has tons of historical trinkets from the native Colombian era all the way to Italian Wars, and even some random Japanese Dolls which were pretty gorgeous.  After being wowed by some Costa Rican and Latin American History, we walk to this restaurant to have our goodbye dinner to Ani