A few days after graduating from college, I took off to Costa Rica for 10 days with 3 friends to celebrate the end of school and have a generally awesome time. We had a red eye flight out of LAX and got into San Jose the next day about 2pm. We got our rental car, a Daihatsu Terios, which turned out to be a pretty sweet small SUV that saved us in many off road/unpaved road situations. After checking into our hostel downtown, we walked around for awhile and saw cool graffiti and went on an adventure trying to park the car around the corner. San Jose has some crazy road system that makes absolutely no sense. Most of the streets are one way and people are jaywalking everywhere and it´s just general chaos. It took us about 30 minutes to figure out how to get back around to the right street where the hostel parking lot was. Our car is stick shift, so it was interesting driving around this hilly area with everyone driving crazily around you on streets that do not have signs. We made it back alive to the hostel though, and had dinner there at their restaurante. We all had 'casados', which are plates that include rice, beans, salad, plantains, and the meat of your choice (fish-steak-chicken-pork). They serve these everywhere, and are one of the 'comidas tipicas' in Costa Rica. It costs around 3,000 colones, which adds up to about $5 for an awesome meal, it´s a sweet deal.
On the way to dinner, I decided to check out the water temperature of the pool, and had a graceful moment when I slipped on the first step and fell in almost the whole way. It was pretty awesome, but thankfully no cell phones or other things that would be damaged by water are with me on this trip, so it was more just straight up shameful, and the first moment where I realized my worn down Aussie flip flops would probably not work out very well on this trip. The water was warm by the way... We had 2 rooms at this place, Mike and Christina´s somehow ended up having a bathroom and two functioning lights, but they were way jealous because the one Dave and I were in had a blown out lamp and there was sand in the bedsheets. It was kindof a mystery to me as to how the sand got in the sheets, as San Jose is nowhere near the beach, and I would hope that the place would change the sheets every so often, maybe after people checked out or something like that, but we just decided it was some sort of free spa treatment for skin exfoliation that had gotten thrown in as an added bonus. It was a really cool hostel though, the pool was nice and they had a cheap bar that made great mojitos and there was even a woman that would juggle bowling pins that were on fire in the courtyard.
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