Friday, February 28, 2014

Today we went to school with our stuff packed for the weekend, ready to boogie when we were done with class.  McCall was lucky and got to go on an 8^th Grade field trip to an amusement park.  Not that I really like amusement parks, but she had a blast.  After a day of quizzes and grading said quizzes, we were off as soon as McCall got back from the field trip.  We had one of the ladies at the front desk call us a cab so that we could get to the bus station as soon as possible.  When we finally got to the bus station to get to Monteverde, we were in some trouble because the tickets that we bought said “de pie” which means on foot.  We were worried, but they kept saying something about a second bus that we could not quite figure out.  Eventually they called everyone with a “de pie” ticket to a bus and we got on not really knowing what was going on.  Finally, this little old lady told us that we could sit anywhere.  It was a stroke of luck that called for some very relieved student teachers.  When ended up in the very back of the bus so that we could all three sit in a row.  The second half of the ride was very bumpy because it was essentially a gravel road that you could only go 30 kmph.  After a 4 hour bus ride, we finally made it and checked into our hotel, Cabinas Eddy B&B.  It turned out to be an excellent hotel.  Afterwards, we went to dinner at a place called Amy’s where I had an excellent plate of fajitas, Katie had a Hawaiian pizza with coconut, and McCall had cheese.  We picked up some Imperial (La Cerveza de Costa Rica) and watched Frozen.  I think we were trying to get into a cooler state of mind.