Pfew, I knew I would say it someday, but Costa Ricans are very aggressive and terrible driver. This is coming from me, who has had her fair share of accidents this year. Apparently, driving is not about sharing the road, but more about selfishly driving around the road to get to your destination.
If you get in a little accident in the process, that's why we have American Engineers to make crumble zones and lovely airbags.
While we are going through a tropical storm (okay I might be exaggerating, it was really heavy rain that felt like a tropical storm), and our dear driver Luis could barely see ahead of him, the campers kept on laughing and joking around.
My heart stopped a couple times on the road. Eventually, after 6 hours of driving, we made it to our little Cabinitas which are in the middle of the jungle, yet right in front of the beach.
None of us needed to even think of the Wifi password, as all we wanted to do was sleep.
The next day we woke up bright and early and were ready to see the animals. After a chaotic moment at the center, where it was quite obviously they were not ready to have such a large group of people coming to help, and yet, after taking charge everyone had a little job. Whatever it be scrubbing down the walls, or raking the leaves, everyone was hard at work contributing to the little community.
The kids joined in the tours, while I went around and said my hellos to everyone who I had missed so dearly.
Marloes was working the tours, the nursery and enrichment, which takes care of making sure the animals were kept healthy mentally.
Nerea was now in charge of the volunteers and giving everyone a job.
Picchio was still being his silly self, getting into motorcycle accidents and bothering the Nerea monkey and Nerea human.
Encar and Sandro gave me a big hug and a big kiss on the cheek, surprised to see me again. It felt I was coming back home from college and everyone had change, yet nothing had change at the same time.
We finished early, as there was a lot of us, and not enough jobs. The kids got to babysit some of the animals, but we had errands and everyone was STARVING. Luis, our driver extroardinaire, recommended us this great little restaurant and everyone ate, went groceries shopping (some for the first time) and tonight we will all have to cook our lunch for tomorrow.
It is cute to see the teenagers having to pick their own food and decide on something to eat other than ramen noodles or pasta. Yet, they all managed to come up with a little something.
Today is beach as it is the first sunny day in a long time and then it will be cooking and a night out in time!
Pura vida mis amigas.
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