Days 4 and 5 in Costa Rica

Days 4 and 5 in Costa Rica

We stayed up too late on Friday night at Lilly and Harvey's party visiting with all of our neighbors.

Eric and Lilly

  Harvey entertained us on the balcony overlooking San Jose with some of his musical talents. 

On Saturday, we slept in a bit.  It is hard to sleep past 6 with the sun coming in all the windows.  Deb from upstairs brought us some of her ceviche to try, so we made fish tacos with it by adding some avocado and wrapping it in a tortilla.  It was delicious!  Saturday was pineapple day, so we snacked on our pineapple from the feria off and on all day.  In the afternoon, we visited with our neighbor Jerry from Tennessee.  He has been buzzing all around Costa Rica for the past 7 weeks.  He gave us some of his insights on different places around the country. 

On Sunday, Eric didn't feel well so we just hung around the apartment complex.  Sunday was mango day.  I made a pitcher of mango refresco (milkshake) with a mango from the feria and an orange from the tree in our front yard.  The orange is more like a grapefruit.  Here is a picture of our limes.   They are orange inside. 

Here is our orange-colored lime by our avocado.

We did some research on someplace to rent for the remainder of our trip and worked on learning some more Spanish.  We were preparing for our first bus trip into Grecia.  We have discovered that despite everything we read, hardly anyone in this area speaks English.

As we were sitting out on our patio Sunday afternoon, we kept hearing a siren followed by a man making an announcement over and over again down in the valley below us.  We were hoping that they are not telling us to evacuate the area because the volcano is going to erupt.  We could hear some weird noise that sounded like water rushing coming from somewhere above us (we decided later we think the neighbors were watching a movie).  We didn't see any fire coming from the volcano so we just sat tight. 

Poas Volcano from our patio