We had a 3-day weekend, so we were able to leave for Limon on Friday morning. On the way there, we kept seeing signs for fruit that said "mamón", so we asked our professor what it was and he had the bus pull over so that we could try it. It looks like a red sea urchin, but once you peel that off, its a piece of fruit with a pit in the middle, very delicious! We have to be careful with the word mamón, though cause if you call someone a mamón, you're calling them a "sucker".
We also stopped at a restaurant along the way that sold a lot of fruit, sweets, and treats like empanadas, yuca pancakes, etc.
We stopped in Puerto Limon, the port city here that my dad ships stuff to, to look at the port and to shop at the central market. It was kind of creepy though with people that looked homeless, but I did end up buying a shirt for my sister.
We finally got to our hotel, and it was so nice! It was more like a bread and breakfast and had very modern rooms with balconies, a beautiful courtyard garden, a pool, and a breakfast nook. A cute italian family owned it.
We decided to go out for dinner, and we went to this pizza place the italians recommended. I really wanted sea food though since we were staying on the sea, so I got the mussles, or mejillones, follwed by tiramisu. It was delicious!
At night, we decided we wanted to go for a night swim. In the pool was a bouncy ball that kids are supposed to sit on and hold onto the handles and bounce on. We decided to use it as our volleyball and played boys vs. girls made-up pool volleyball with some different rules. After that, we tried to make a whirlpool like when we were kids, but it didn't work. We had so much fun trying though!
The next day, we wanted to go to the nature reserve to find monkeys. We had cereal, rolls, egg, a big bowl of fruit, coffee and OJ for breakfast and went to the reserve. It was really cool to see the beach and then the rainforest only about 20 feet off the coast. There, we saw lizards, bugs, a snake, butterflies, sloths and monkeys! They were howler monkeys. They were so cool to see close up and swinging on the branches over us. I was scared they would try to mess with us, but they were just doing their monkey things.
Afterwards, it was getting warm, so we decided to find the black sand beach to go swimming. I had never seen a black sand beach before so I was so excited to see it. We walked on the beach and jumped some waves in the water.
We visited another beach town in Puerto Viejo where we ate and swam some more. They had really huge waves that knocked us over almost every time, but we had a lot of fun trying to stay standing.
For lunch, I had caribbean steak, tostones, caribbean rice that has coconut milk in it, beans and salad. The restaurant was really cute!
When we got back to the hotel, we knew we wanted to go to another beach front sea food restaurant that catches fresh fish to serve called "Sobre las olas." We visited earlier and they said they had fresh swordfish ceviche, so we wanted to go that night. To work off some of the food we had earlier, we played pool volleyball and then got ready to go out. The restaurant had beach front tables and they lit the candles for us, very cute! They also had a hammock that went over the ocean, so of course I had to try it out. Thank goodness I didn't fall off onto the beach.
Afterwards, we went out dancing and got to practice salsa and meringue. We were the only ones really dancing though, but still had a good time.
The next day on the way back home, we listened to the world cup game on the radio and stopped to try some guanabana fresh from the farm. It looks like an oversized bumpy avocado, but cuts like a pineapple with a more juicy texture and a less sour taste. It was delicious!
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