Caribbean Rasta Fun

Finally, it´s time for me to elaborate on our phenomenal Caribbean trip. We´ll start with our Thursday night pitstop at La Selva research station.
Basically, this largely known research station was founded in the Costa Rican rain forest due to Costa Rica´s large abundance of biodiversity and wildlife. We took a little nature hike when we got there, and we actually saw some pretty cool stuff on this one. Poison Dart frogs were very abundant in this area, which is awesome because I´ve been wanting to see some of those. We also got some up close looks at some Spider Monkeys. Other than that we just saw some various animals and such, like wild hogs. After the hike we had dinner, then proceeded to do some fun new things like play cards most the night (sarcasm). In the morning we had another nature hike, but this time we had a guide. This time we mostly saw the same things, but he could better explain some other random things, like the walking palm trees, which move 1 to 2 feet a year towards sunlight. We wanted to see a frickin snake... but we still had no luck.

Finally, after we ate, we headed off for the caribbean. We arrived in Puerto Viejo and found a much different side of Costa Rica. We had arrived in the ¨Rasta¨ territory, where most people there were of Jamaican decent. We walked around to some little shops they had set up where they were selling handmade jewelry and the like. It was here where we were offered the best weed around by 5 different people and yayo by one guy. Yes, we declined all offers. Our hotel there was pretty phenomenal. Three guys got the party room, which had a full kitchen, two bedrooms, and two baths. We played some various drinking games before heading to a nearby bar. Once there, we sang karaoke as a group and quickly scared away any locals by our drunken singing. After a couple cervezas there, we went down the street to a club. This place was pretty awesome, and what was more awesome was the random lingerie show they put on near the end. Luckily I took pictures, because for some reason most of the show had slipped my mind by the time I woke up... as did the entire walk home and my purchase of hot dogs from a vendor. Sadly, since I´m a jackass and left my USB cable at home, and since no one else has the same USB connection as my camera, I won´t be able to post any pictures on here before I go home.

Moving on... The next day we went to Manzanillo to our new hotel. By our new hotel, I mean our resort on the beach. This place was one of the places you look at in a brochure and say holy shit I could never afford that. As it turns out it was cheap enough for us to stay there for two nights. These were basically our only free days/nights of our weekend vacations, which could not have come at a better time. The views were amazing and so was the food and service. We had a standard Saturday night, except for a few people who stayed up all night to see the sunrise. Surprisingly, I didn´t stay up with them, but that allowed me to get enough sleep to prepare me for the next day.

Sunday, I was up and ready to go at 7AM... even though for the first time the entire trip, we were able to sleep in. It was all good though, because it took no more than 45 seconds of convincing at breakfast to talk Jamie and Plump into drinking with me at 8. So by noon we were drunk, and since we were drunk so early, we forgot to apply sun tan lotion... So by 3 we were passed out and hot pink. It all worked out for the best, as we were able to wake up and power through the night. We had a bet with Glenn, which we won, where he had to finally drink a night with us. Eventually we all made it out to the beach (except Chase actually...) where we started a little fire and chilled out for a while. Afterwards a select few of us ran amok around the resort, waking up a naked European who came out and yelled at us... balls cupped. Then we proceeded to make our room as messy as possible only to leave it that way in the morning out of spite for the expensive drinks.

Monday we ate breakfast and came home. We all wanted to stay around the blue water and the random cage filled with exotic birds at the resort, but we knew that we actually have to do some schoolwork while here. Hopefully I didn´t miss anything or I´ll be upset. Hasta luego nerds.

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