amazing rat race meets survivor continued....

Wednesday- we are in Puerto Jimenez thanks to our 7.5 hour hike and our cab driver who is driving with his daughter on his lap. She calls hotels once we get into town, the first can't accomodate all 6 of us. The second didnt impress us, we wanted something not so shitty. Finally we decided on a place called Cabinas the Corner. It was like a bed and breakfast without any food available..bascially a house with rooms to rent upstairs and a place for backpackers that looked like jail literally. They had a cage and everything. We met Matt from the US and he was traveling with a German, which he said we would get to meet later--he was at the hospital. Well we were sooo gross from the hike and so smelly...we all showered and it was luxurious because the shower was cold..however not everyone got cold water. After we were all cleaned up..we all had our stuff in 3 different rooms. We went to dinner at a local Soda. We each said how hungry we were and we'd start with one casado but might get another. Before when she brought our food I made my excited sound and she just laughed because she thought it was funny. We all got some bomb lemonade and pollo con salsa but Kameron ordered after everyone because he ran to the bank and they were out so he got carne con salsa. We ate and were stuffed we forgot that since we had not been eating our tummys shrank. After we ate Tracee and I went back for a nap while the others went to the supermarket and explored. We thought this was the town to stay at for a few days because we were tired of always being on the go. We woke up and thought the others were gossiping about us...maybe they were? We went out to where the smoking area was because it was an outdoor balcony to chill. We met Christian...Matt's German friend and he told us now that Matt was sick and this place was dirty and to leave as fast as you could..they were at 6 am the next day. Then Matt went for injections...this place was infested with Dengue. We told Christian he could come with us to get food becuase we were running to the store and he was so hungry and he decided to tag along. Kameron, Tracee and I made freinds with him but the other 3 wanted nothing to do with him. When we got back we played a German card game with him and I tried to get the others to come hang out but they would not leave the one room that they all three ended up sleeping in. We played Dopplekoff and I am obsessed with it now..if you ever go to GERMANY...get me two decks of playing cards...the ones that have boys and girls not jack and queens. We played and played until Christian was tired...by then Cameron had come out and talked with us and so we all went to our rooms and cameron came in me and tracee's to talk with us. Kameron got his own room somehow. We talked for a while until we all were tired and then fell asleep but we knew we wanted to get a bus ticket out of this place ASAP.

Thursday- wake up in Puerto Jimenez still healthy...went to check on the bus and they said we could not leave until Saturday or Sunday for San Jose. We go to the beach to think of what to do next and a plane flys overhead....we all look at each other and say you want to fly???? We run towards the airstrip and a truck with a dready guy talks to Archie and tells us we can fly, how much and where to go. We go and try to find out if we can indeed leave today. The girls and Archie stay at the check on place while me Kam and Craig run run run to the real airport office to see if we can get it figured out faster and directly. They call another air company and they agreed to leave in like 45 minutes the flight would be at 11:30. I ran back to tell them and they are coming to find us already. It is something like 80 per person but worth it because of room and everything there for 2 more days and the bus ticket was like 10 befcause it was such a long ride. My math doens't add up but take into account getting what Christian and Matt had and having to be in the hospital. They said they were lucky and most had to stay there for 2 -4 weeks...not a chance in hell i'd let them stick me with needles in a third world country. The girls are hungry and decided to check into getting a casado to go...we succeed and it's fricken amazing.We meet the boys at the airport a few mintues after we were supposed to check in. The plane comes in on time and we board....San Jose took less than 45 minutes to reach. On the way we got pictures from the place, some video and a discussion of what to do now that we had 3 days to spare that we had not planned for. I sure didn't want to stay in dirty San Jose and Archie was going to the Caribean...the others weren't sure. I wanted to either go back to Monteverde or with him because I heard good things about that side. We all decide if there is a night bus to Puerto Viejo we'll go...there was..and we got it and went. It was about 5 hours to our destination. It is dark when we arrive and some black Caribean comes and tries to cart us away..he succeeded and we follow him but Heather and I stay to the back not wanting to follow the cracked out loser. The bus stop had people handing out flyers about hotels and we took them and as he's leading us around we are looking at them and decide to ask about them...we end up at hotel rolando. It was cute cabinas with hammocks outside. Everyone from the bus that we saw ended up at the same place. It was $8 per person. We wanted to splurge and went to a sea food place for dinner it was a real place but took over an hour for our food. I wanted fish but when it got to me it was the whole fricken fish and eyes included. Coctails were little and 4 dollars! I had two...sorry guilty pleasure it was finally a tropical place with good drinks. There was live music that resembled bob marley. everyone spoke english or a caribean mix of sorts. We went back to the hotel and the boys go back ahead of us while we looked at stores. The boys steal our hammock and light and we return and are like okay...its no good after that...they are asses and go to the bars without us. We stay and go to bed and chat-girltalk. Archie comes and knocks on our door, rather pounds and screams that he needs cards...then he climbs and shines his huge maglight into our window and screams again. We are awake now but no way in hell gettin up or giving him cards. He mutters something about us faking because we are still in our clothes...we weren't really faking we just sleep in our clothes since we packed light...back to bed

Friday--wake up and decided to go to walk around and look at stores, the boys were already gone. We stalked them and they just passed and waved. We looked at all the stores and waited for the little stands to open along the beach to look at the handmade jewelry...we try to find the boys to eat breakfast and when we do they have already eaten...and are getting beer and going to the water. We decide to eat after kissing major ass to get them to be nice again. We go to a place called Peace and Love Cafe...we all get pizzas--I got ham and pineapple and then 2 pastrys that were the first dessert that I had since being in Costa Rica..I took pictures...It was cheap like less than 3 dollars for all of my food. We go to find and boys and realize the sand is BLACK..i have never in all my years seen black sand. I lay out and still can't believe I am at a black sand beach--its actaully beautiful. Me and Tracee look at each other and decide to roll around in it and coat ourselves...for pictures of course. Then we go into the ocean with Craig to rinse off. The waves are awesome, not too much of a break that pulls you under but big big waves. We go back and lay out some more. Finally we get bored after a while and convince them to come with us to shop at the little stands. I find some really cool stuff and so do the other girls. We kept going back to this one lady and she'd laugh. There was a lot of culture in this little town, we decided it was what we had hoped to find all along. We decided to find this little art shop we saw the night before and we did. It was so kewl...I got a tanktop that said flower power but was a racer back and adored it...tracee got two shirts..she couldn't decide and I am no help. Heather got a piece of art work and Cameron got a spear. We decided to go back and clean up before happy hour. The boys decided not to come and said they would meet up with us later for dinner. They were set to meet up with us at 7:30 where they had happy hour 2 for 1500colones. Thats 3 dollars for 2 drinks. We go off and have our girl night and get appetizers..it was a place called Chili Rojo and was amazing ...we wanted a shirt but were going to wait to see what the bars we went to that night had. Theirs said 'Puerto Viejo- A sunny place for shady people.' I got the humus and pita bread, Heather got some chicken skewers and Tracee got some veggie dumpling things...we all split. I had 3 drinks...one pina colada that was strong and I couldn't take much of and 2 sangrias. Tracee had a Sangria, Mia'thai and a pinacolado and heather had 2 pinacolads and a mia thai. The Mi' thai's were not like the ones at home at all....The boys came and we went to a restaurant for dinner. The girls decided to split nachos and get another drink. I was a lil tipsey from the drinks, the sun and not much food. We went to another bar called Sunset Bar and for some reason things went downhill from here. Craig told us to 'go find your fresh fish and fuck off bitches' apparently he heard us talking earlier about the hottie shortage and was pissed. We in turn are pissed and go somewhere else because this bar didn't have coctails and the manager was 'on his way' and the person there didn't know the specials or prices for anything...we leave the bitchy boys and go to find a bar with good prices. We were basically killing time until the bar with the free pina colado from 10-11. We went to a few places before finally going to Bar In and In and we are sitting there with 3 sex on the beaches when we see Archie walking so we wave frantically and he comes up. He tells us that him and Kam were like so shocked Craig said that and was coming to find us. We chilled for a while then went to Hot Rocks bar for a free beer since we had a coupon from the bus ride. We also get another drink and I chose the Hot Rock which was rum and blackberry and I dunno what else, Tracee got a bloody mary and Heather sat that round out. Welp..its time for a free pina colada...It actaully happened to be multiple ones...from 10-11 I got 3 I believe. By then I had 9 drinks and I was feeling it...we went with Kam, and Cam to this dance bar....they all decide to leave and Me and Tracee sta. We are dancing and having a good time with the locals. We both feel the alcohol and are having fun. We go to look for people to talk to. See Cameron who came back to check on us and he goes to smoke..We continue to look for people and sucessfully find a table of people that are nice and from Cali...I dont remember a lot after this except I left Tracee and am sitting on the beach with Cameron and we keep looking to make sure Tracee is okay and still with the people we were with. All of a sudden it seems like only 2 mintues pass by the entire time because I am tired and falling asleep...she's not there. I tell him we need to go and find her and he suggests going back to look at the hotel. I get back and she's there thank the Lord in Heaven!!!! I was so scared and felt like it was all my fault. She was upset becuase she had gotten lost on the way back and didn't know the name of the place. I apoligised and was crying and they were like its okay..and I was like 'it's not okay!' we went around and around with that for a while. They were like are you okay? and I was like yeah! I am just upset that I left you, I never leave people...and blah blah..anyways we talked about Archie and how they blamed him for splitting us up and getting us seperated in the first place but I still knew it was my fault. I fell alseep but Tracee hadn't yet and she heard the chair move outside our room--knowing that Archie had just heard everything we said about him.


Tune in next time for the continuation of rat race/survivor and now real world costa rica....it gets heated