Buenas Tardes...Good Afternoon... and Happy Easter!!!! It is another beautiful day here in
Playa Hermosa and a perfect one to be celebrating my birthday. Yes, today is the big 38....did I just say that out loud!!!! Well at least I am celebrating it in style...sun, beach, good food and a few drinks. Today I plan to go to a local restaurant called Ginger's. It is a beautiful open air restaurant that was designed by a famous Costa
Rican architect and it specializes in
Mediterranean food. It has had rave reviews, so I thought I should treat myself and check it out. I am also going to the movie theatre on my resort. With my package I get one free movie pass and I am going to the Oscar award winning moving The Hurt Locker. Since today is my last day in
Playa Hermosa, I got up early and packed my backpack. This takes a bit of planning as you want to make sure things are placed in the right spots so that the pack sits well on your back and also so you have easy access to the things you will need more frequently. Once I was packed up, I headed to the pool for some coffee and fried banana for breakfast...yes
I am drinking coffee while I am here...a little bit anyway. Costa Rica is known for its coffee and its bananas, so if you are going to be here, you might as well try it out. I am not a coffee drinker, but I am pretty sure the coffee here is very strong....it takes lots of milk and sugar to make it drinkable for me. After breakfast I spent a couple hours at the pool...it is very quiet here, as many people have checked out today and are heading back home after the holiday week. I was planning to take the public bus to
Monteverde tomorrow, but since it is going to take all day and three transfers....surprise, surprise... I decided to bite the bullet and take the shuttle. It is a huge ripoff...the
Interbus is not running and would have cost $29, so instead I am taking the
Gray Line, which is $45. I think I have become a lazy backpacker!!!! Since I will be getting in around noon, I hope to maybe do a coffee tour when I get there....I will see. At around 11am I decided to make a call home to chat with my family who were
having Easter dinner at my aunt's...I was surprise to
have Happy Birthday sung to me over the phone by everyone at her house...nice surprise.
Muchas Gracias...thank you very much...to all those who sent Birthday wishes. I almost forgot it was my birthday...you loose track of time when you are travelling for long periods of time. After my call home, I decided to do a little shopping...only 5 days left in Costa Rica and I have some things I want to buy...and then headed to the beach for a bit of a walk. It was very quiet at the beach as well...this is how I like it. I love the sand here....I could walk on it all day long....I will really miss it when I leave. I think it is even nicer than the sand in PEI...and that is a big deal coming from me!!! Planning to head to my villa for a little lunch, hang out at the pool for a bit and then get cleaned up for dinner. Can not wait to check out this restaurant. Until tomorrow....
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