My last day in Manuel Antonio, CR. I went to this neat cafe called cafe milagro. Tasty! But touristy. It was a nice treat after walking in the HOT sun :)
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Manuel Antonio was the second vacation we took outside of San Jose. There's really not much to do in San Jose so we were gone pretty much every weekend, especially the two long weekends we had, in order to explore the parts of Costa Rica that people *really* go there to see. Manuel Antonio proved to be a beautiful, although extremely touristy, place to visit. During the time that it's not raining, the beaches are beautiful and the water is perfect for wave jumping! :D I didn't even encounter a jelly fish.
Rebecca and I arrived Friday morning and met Gina, Miranda, Alex and some other people from our program. Rebecca and I went to have some lunch, which involved the frosty pina colada I've posted about, and then ran into the ocean! It was great fun but the waves were pretty powerful which meant some violent crashes to the head. Once the waves started to defeat me, I got out. Don't wanna mess with the sea!
The next day we went into the Manuel Antonio national park, which has quite a few hiking trails that lead to beaches, for the most part. The first beach was extremely crowded, but the second beach ended up being perfect for a few people... and, as it turned out, non-people. I was visited by monkeys, giant iguanas and an anteater type creature. Not to mention all the hermit crabs!
By the end of that day I was really exhausted, so I stayed in and watched ghost stories (after catching a little bit of an episode of True Blood!) while the other ladies went out on the town. It was relaxing until Rebecca woke up at 3 AM afraid that there was a spider in our bed :-P. There probably was! Better safe than sorry. The next day we slept in a little, had a delicious breakfast at the hotel's restaurant and headed into Quepos to catch our bus. Just before it was time to leave I took a little journey to this cafe.
Unfortunately, the burger that followed afterward in the bus station was really disgusting, turning me off from burgers pretty much for my entire stay in CR (if I'm not mistaken, it was my second burger in a year... pretty disappointing!). I'm looking forward to redeeming my burger relationship perhaps by heading to Bare Burger with Josh / Ben or making some at home...! But right about now I'd like to go back to that cafe and get a nice cold coffee drink. Mmmm.
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