Sunday, March 9, 2014

Today was Daylight Savings Time, except Costa Rica does not recognize Daylight Savings Time, so I got to keep that hour of sleep.  The only problem is that my email system thinks I’m an hour ahead, so those emails from the future are pretty cool.  After sleeping in a little bit, I got up to have huevos rancheros that were unlike the ones I’ve experienced in Mexican restaurants in the States.  It had eggs and then had all kinds of different onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and crazy stuff, plus you eat it with bread.  Afterwards, I walked over to the farmers market to check out the different fruits and veggies that they had for sale.  It was a good thing I was not hungry because everything looked delicious.  I proceeded to come back to the house and work on the PowerPoint presentation that I am giving tomorrow during class.  I have cheesy jokes in there, so the kids will love it.  Eventually, Katie and McCall had gone to the gym and showered, so we went to Escazu to go to the Multi-Plaza Mall there and then run by Wal-Mart.  Our first stop in the mall was McDonalds.  That was my first experience of having Costa Rican McDonalds.  This dude cut me in line and they were really slow, but other than that, it was pretty good for McDonalds.  After that, we wandered around different stores, some more fun for me than others.  My favorite was an international book store that we came across.  There were books of all types, in all types of languages that I could purchase.  It was fancy-dancy.  I even got to watch some of the Thunder game because it was on a TV at a food court.  It was perfect, I watched the Thunder game while the other two went to Forever 21 and Gap.  We even found the movie theater inside the mall with its array of movie choices that we could possibly come back to enjoy later in the week.  The girls got all the things they needed and we were off to Wally-World.  At Walmart, I got all of our shampoo and toiletries that I needed, along with lunch supplies to add to the PB&J mission.  We ended up taking a cab home because we did not want to risk the awkward trip home on the bus with all of our groceries.  I got to feel like I was home after that because we had Mac and Cheese for dinner.  I spent the rest of the night Skyping my parents, working on updating this blog, and finishing up the PowerPoint for class tomorrow.