Reflections

Well, the time has come. I am just a few short hours away from leaving Costa Rica behind. I will be boarding a plane bound for Antigua, Guatemala for 2 months before eventually returning back to MN to teach 3rd grade. So I leave CR with some random memories and great experiences that will last a lifetime:

1) Meeting my ladies at the airport in Huston before we all boarded the plane bound for CR. Little did we know what the next two years held in store for us. I love you girls.
2) Trying to make our first home cooked meal with Molly. It all turned out white and tasted just as bad as it looked. Maybe that's why Papa Johns became such a staple for us!
3) Tracking down some random wood dude to make us a TV stand and myself a shelf for my room.
4) Making it from Escazu to San Jose in all of 10 minutes to catch our bus to the beach for Liz's birthday. (We may have overslept a little...)
5) Having a local bar, Arenas, open early for us every Friday for happy hour.
6) Traveling all around Costa Rica and seeing all the beautiful sites.
7) Heading to Nicaragua for a long weekend with Steph and climbing that damn volcano...couldn't walk  for a week.
8) Going to Panama with Molly and deciding to head to San Blas because I read about it online. Neither of us knew where we were headed when we got in some man's truck early one morning. Took us a few hours to figure which ocean we had ended up on as well!


9) Driving to Rio Celeste with Kelly and Al in our little sedan...an SUV was highly recommended. After  pushing the car and bottoming out a few times, we fully understood why!
10) Holding monkeys and seeing the baby sloths with Jess...the cracked windshield is something I'd rather forget though.
11) Seeing the baby sea turtles hatch in Tortuguero...so cute!
12) Hiking Diamante Falls with my brother and sleeping in a cave behind a waterfall. That, complete with cliff jumping and repelling down a waterfall...priceless

The list could go on and on...all in all, it has been a wonderful two years. I can only hope my next two months in Guatemala will be half as amazing.