A fun weekend

I finally hung my hammock in front of the house.  

Paulina is modeling the hammock

Diego climbing the strangler fig, from the inside

Our Saturday started off rather slowly.  For the first time ever none of us went to the feria (farmer´s market) so later on in the weekend Paulina and I had to go to the Mega Super and get our groceries.  It was nice because it´s much closer to home, but the market offers about the same prices and more organic food and a chance to see people from town including the parents of out students, but this weekend we opted out.

So later on Saturday I went to the Friends School (the Quaker school in the zone) to play frisbee.

After frisbee, around 2pm I went to Cybil and Soraya´s new house, which is named, "the villa" which is beautiful and has been compared to drug lord´s housing in Colombia.  They have a beautiful view with statues, ponds and two fire places, one inside, one out.  It was nice to finally see their new house, and nice to celebrate Cybil´s birthday.

From there we all went to Maté Caña, one of the four bars in town, to listen to Jesse, the 6th grade teacher play on his guitar.

On Sunday our friend Diego came over and we hiked the strangler fig tree by school.  The tree I´m guessing is about 100 feet high and we climbed up from the inside.  The way strangler fig trees grow is that they attach to another tree, somewhere above the ground and they start growing vines up and down and eventually invade and take over the original tree.  After a while the other tree is eroded, or something of that sort, leaving a hollow opening in the middle.  Sometimes, like with this tree you are able to climb.


In the evening we decided to make tres leches, which is one of my favourite Costa Rican dishes.