Alex and Matt’s Arrival

Today was a pretty exciting day.  The morning went slowly at work, I had a few that morning Glenn and Scott both stopped in to say hi.  I was so excited and anxiously awaiting Alex and Matt's arrival.   

They were walking towards Willie's Tours and I ran and hugged them both!  I was so excited!  My first and maybe only visitors from home, it turned out to be way more exciting than I ever imagined.  

We than went to lunch since they were starving from their journey.  We ate or I guess they ate at Pizz'n Love had a few beers and settled into the area.  It was immensely hot that day so we decided to quickly pay, head to the house and change for some beach time.  

We than went to the house and put their luggage, which equated to Matt's luggage and Alex's carry on seeing as how they had lost her luggage during the trip.  We changed and went to Playa Negra for a swim, to cool off and relax for a while.  It was a lot of fun and it was a great chance to meet Matt for the first time.  

Afterwards we went home and took a nap and showered and took some down time before the night commenced.  

We started by having dinner at El Parquecito.  I enjoy going there since they have two for one’s.  Most places don’t have drink specials and I am cheap and drinking in Cahuita/Costa Rica and even eating out is basically the equivalent to living at home, except oh by the way you only make two dollars an hour here!!  This dinner was the first night of many that week where Matt and I spent at least 10 minutes debating what we were going to eat that night.  It's a big deal and there is so much to choose from!! 

Glenn and Sam found us at El Parquecito and had brought with them the new volunteer who had just arrived that day.  Her name is Ellen and she came from South Carolina from the states to also work at the clinic in Cahuita.  Everyone sat around and had some cocktails.  Alex and I ran back and forth between El Parquecito and Willie’s to check for her luggage, which surprisingly arrived that night.  Luckily Nona and Jorge held on to it for us until the following morning. 

Since that was Saturday night, we went out to Coco’s Bar.  CoCo’s bar has life music on Saturday nights which is a blast.  Everyone in Cahuita loves them; it’s the most packed you’ll see Coco’s bar at this time of year which is low season.  Needless to say we plopped ourselves down and had an amazing evening.  We joked and drank the entire evening, we closed down Coco’s at good ole three in the morning.  We were actually being kicked out of the bar!!  The funny part was that at dinner, I had insisted that I purchase three large bottles of water for us.  I was certain we would need them in the morning and that evening.  Well I took them with me to Coco’s bar and proceeded to leave them there, half way on the walk home I realized “OH NO!” we did not return to get them and the next morning were all upset we did not have that water. 

Alex and I spent the night talking and catching up and drinking rum and coke's even though I swear there was no rum in them!  Matt and Scott spent the night taking turns buying each other tequila shots.  It was quite the evening!!!  Alex gave one of my local friends a lecture on smoking... saying "What about your kids?"  haha he doesn't have kids.  It was quite a funny night.  Matt and I spent the entire night going back and forth saying random things in spanish.  Matt would repeat the only words he knew in spanish "si" "que" "nueve."  It was such a blast.  

At Coco’s that night we realized that Alex did not receive any dance skills.  Carlos, a local, has been trying to get me to dance since I have arrived, just for kicks I decided ok I will dance tonight.  When Alex had her turn she would spin and kind of run off and not really help the poor guy out.  He was a great dancer and a great leader.  Needless to say we took some funny pictures and Matt and I got a good laugh out of the situation.

The walk home was entertaining and a beautiful start to a beautiful trip.  I was soo happy.  My local friends told me I looked so happy that I was glowing, which I think was mostly from sweat but still a nice compliment to receive!!!