Costa Rica...

Is expensive...

Charlie was down this week and it was also Grace's last week traveling with us and we also got to have a little reunion with our friend Greta who is in San Jose teaching for two years!
In San Jose we all stayed in this hostel which felt kind of like being in someone's frat house. There were a lot of drinking games and welcome shots and surf videos but the owners are Carolina Panthers fans and went to UNC-W and have lived in Asheville...so it's cool .
From San Jose we went to Montezuma which is on the west coast and is absolutely fantastic. We got to take multiple modes of transportation (our favorite) to get there too!
In Montezuma we walked along the beach which also turns into straight rock and then back to beach and then back to rock. We also climbed to this waterfall which is 40 ft (maybe 35) and jumped from it. It was crazy, definitely WILL NOT do it again. It hurt and was terrifying. I hate the feeling of falling and not being able to stop and that's what it was except you were smacked by the water at the end. I would have loved to chicken out except there was too much peer pressure at the top. On another day, we decided to walk along the beach to find another waterfall that was supposed to be cool but that you couldn't jump from because it went into the ocean...you also couldn't jump from it because it was just a trickle. Charlie and I walked for nearly 2 hours to find it and it while the walk was really pretty and enjoyable the waterfall was not worth all the effort...except the view from the top was pretty cool.
One restaurant was playing the Hurt Locker which I had been wanting to see and finally did. I thought it was a great movie... a little depressing but I think that's to be expected about movies on the Iraq War.