a few days of updates

well a few nights ago was the last of the yearly festival that was in town with a make shift carnival (sketchy rides that made horrible sounds and a farris wheel that was leveled on four pieces of wood...) so we went into town a few people went on that sketchy farris wheel and i told them no one could even pay me to go on... i watched in horror as britt and j flipped there cage on it. then it was off to the bull fight, now me and britt had gone a week or so earlier and it was crazy a guy got jumped on by a bull for a while i thought the bull wasn't going to stop then everyone picked him up and put him threw a little window with a + on it where there is an ambulance on the other end. now let me explain how bull fights work in costa rica... theres no weapons, the bulls dont get hurt pretty much there is this ring that you can only get out of if you climb the walls. they get someone to ride in on the bull, they get bucked off in like a few seconds and theres a whole bunch of (dumb, drunk) people in the ring just taunting the bull to get pissed off and run at them... when we went at one point there was a guy in a dress that was playing jump rope with the lasue around the bulls neck...great idea anyways all in all its pretty crazy. here are some photos and videos from the bulls
these are the guys getting ready for the bull to come out


this is a guy who was bugging me and britt all night long i think its kinda funny how the bull is picking on him...karma

this is the out side of the ring



anyways i dident want to go to another bull fight... one was plenty for me so i chilled outside. thank god i dident go in because j and his brother got into the ring i would have had a heart attack!

on another note the other day i was walking around and i saw the leaf cutter ants but they werent carring leafs... there was like 10 of them carring a dorito! it was hands down the funniest thing ever i wish i had my camera i would have filmed it and sold it to dorito for a commerical! it was so funny i burst out laughting. this is why i need my camera 24/7!

damn it!

well i woke up this morning thinking about how much iv screwed myself over by losing my bank card.. i even dreamed about it last night... anyways i was trying to make some coffee in a complicated matter (emerging coil that heats up water in a cup pour boiling water into coffee filter over another cup) with one problem there is only one cup in the kitchen(the one i bought yesterday) so i was like ok ill hold the filer over a plate pour the water into it and quickly attach it back onto the cup(now this is really complicated) the second i started to pour the boiling water about 20% got into the filter the other 80% poured onto my hand... coffee grinds all over the kitchen i then just ran my hand under water and held a frozen bottle for half an hour. its not to bad of a burn my skin just peeled but two hours later and its still freaking hot... oh the dumb things i do for coffee, at least all this has got my mind off my bank card, mabey next time i should spend the dollar at the cafe for coffee.

short and sweet

well today i was going to work with the Bri Bri tribe helping with the soup kitchen however my alarm dident go off so i woke up 10 mins befor i was to be there... across town so i told them i coudent make it. instead i made a mosaic in the garden area of the hostel... its not the best but it started to rain so i wanted to get the cement down befor it was jungle raining... i will add more in the next few days. britt and j have gone to bocus del toro in panama for a few days she needs to get out of costa rica for at least 3 days or else she cant get back in for 5 years!! i have to remeber once my 3 months here comes around to get out or else i cant come back (for 5 years)!

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today was a really sucked i went to the center to help out and it was all good chillin with the sloths then after the tours they got me to clean out the eagle cage at first i was like well it couldent be that bad they moved the bird into another cage but then i had to take out all the saw dust that had dead mice/rats/old meat and maggots!!! it was hands down the dirtiest thing in the world and then i had to scrub off all the bird shit from the wire cage it was horrible like why dosent the people that are getting paid for this work have to do the gross stuff? anyways i told them I'm going on a road trip next week i just cant stand doing this stuff.

long day today

well i woke up at 6:30 this morning to get ready for volunteering and let me tell you thats much to early for me on a vacation... anyways the animals are as cute as ever...minus a sloth scratch but i think i will have to cut back my days there 5 days a week 8 hours a day is wayyyy to much because im also working with another group volunteering one day a week... plus i have to start doing reflexology to make some extra cash... i kinda feel bad cutting back the hours but i cant do it i get home i shower and pass out in a hammock. anyways yesterday britt me and a guy who grew up in delta all went to punta uva again it was so beautiful not a cloud in the sky and it dident even rain all day! i got to try out snorkeling and it was amazing there was brain coral that looks just like a brain and the coolest brightest fish iv ever seen i felt like i was swimming in the movie finding nemo! i have to get a mask for sure and go out snorkeling everyday its so much fun! we also went to a great restaurant that had the best plantains ever! i could eat them all day everyday and it was a wicked environment too all open air and the tables were full of sea shells and sand! also the bartender had the coolest earring ever...

full moon toga party

so last night was a full moon so we had a wicked toga party at the hostel.. everyone took their sheets and made them into togas.
we made a big cooler full of jungle juice(lots of vodka, some fruit juice, and some pineapples and watermellon) it actually tasted really good and for 4$ it was all you can drink... to be honest it went pretty fast and everyone was pretty drunk then j gave me a 2 6 of rum to give shots of it out i told everyone they could have a shot but only if its a body shot... everyone agreed except for one guy who wanted a shot in the mouth.. i was aready bad enough at pouring in peoples bellybottons that i really shouldent have but i ended up giving him a face shot as in rum in they eyes, nose, ears and i think a bit got in his mouth... thats why i dont pour rum when im drunk.. i dident do anymore face shots and i promised him a drink tonight to make up for it. after the shots we went and had an awsome bon fire. there was a random drunk fist fight over a girl but i got it broken up in no time... all in all it was an awsome night but somehow the ping pong table had it the worst this morning...

monkie business is hard business...but fun

today i started my work with the Jaguar center first i cleaned up the sloth cages and took them out for crawling around the trees... then it was time to baby bottle feed the monkies wow they sure wanted it fighting eachother for the bottles.. after feeding them i got to chill with them for a few hours so they would get to know me. thats when 6 of them piled on my head, legs, arms and lap...monkies everywhere i couldent move if i tried. the monkies are very sweet many of them are young and have lost their parents so they love to cuddle up too sweet.


i still feel like i have monkies hanging off of me. i asked one of the owners who loves snakes and he has a bunch of killer snakes and he breeds them because they are nessisary for the eco system. lots of people around here kill all snakes thinking that hey are this one kind of killer snake but most of them are not its pretty sad. i asked him if he has ever been bit by a killer snake and he said yes once when i first started researching them a rattel snake bit my finger and he showed me the stubby finger pretty bad ass, and then he got bit in the same hand by a viper... i told him i would have stopped at the rattel snake.. let alone the viper and he still breeds these snakes pretty crazy... he dosent breed vipers tho. yah the center is great I had never realized how much that monkies really are just like humans... untill i spent a day with monkies all over my back and everywhere else. they even have finger prints just like humans. and damn they are smart...and fast.

one of them does bite tho its just so happens that she is the biggest of them all and she likes to pick on the smallest monkie so its hard to break it up.. heres a video for you of some monkies play fighting ... i will post this later the power keeps going on and off...

SLOTHS SNAKES MONKIES AND MORE!

Today i went to the jaguar rescue center! what an awsome place, they take animals that have been hurt/left by their parents and they rehab them back into the will, i had monkies climbing all over me and there are the cutest baby sloths ever!


ever wanted to see the cutest baby sloth climb... now you can!





baby tucan

monkies!!


all in all a wonderful day!

after that i went into town and got myself a machete with a cool cover that im going to decorate, im going to use it to open up the green coconuts and get out the fresh milk its really good for you!

beautiful day today

britt and i went to Punta Uva on our bikes today it was very wonderful, couldent have been better weather or a chiller ride! we went to this georgous beach and then to this point you have to treck a bit of forrest to get to it we randomly ran into a man name Patrick better knowen as Captin Zero and a couple of his other friends heres another article about him, they were all really chill,smoked one then we check out the beach and went wave jumpin for a while it was really awsome i didnet ever want to leave ! we found this grave stone of a guy that lived right near the point he died in 1964 on this day kinda wierd anyways heres some photos and video of the ants





i really dident want to leave this place

now this is a rain storm!!

It started to sprinkle so I went out to the beach to have my morning yoga streches then thought it would be a good idea to take a walk befor it started pouring wow was I wrong! I came about two feet away from (another) tree falling on my head! I really do not know why trees want to fall on me! anyways heres a video of part of the rain storm its taken from my hostel(its nothing like Vancouver!)








also the other day me Britt and J went to Panama first we had to get on a little boat that took us across a little river we got tires for there land rover then we went back to costa rica went driving a bit then on another little boat across another Panama boarder there was the cheepest booze at the duty free there was a 2 6 of absolute vodka for $7!!!!!!!! thats like $30 in canada all the booze was so cheep I couldent believe my eyes wow we get ripped off in canada! well we loaded up the boat took all the booze back (the ride was a bit tippy i was just glad we dident go under cause there crocadiles in the river!)and then we went back to the hostel
also I went into town with a guy I met from the hostel his name is John here are some photos we took (after the Panama ones)

landed!

well i landed a few days ago and its beautiful here there are always people having a good time! i caught a 5 hour buss ride after my two flights (sigh) the buss ride was really cool we went past an amazing national park that seemed to last forever! it was crazy because it was just outside san jose that has 1 million people living in the city! yah its reallly really hot here! and its "winter"! on the buss ride into town there was the cutest sloth on the side of the road the bus driver got out picked him up then threw him on the other side of the road! i almost started to cry the saddest part was the sloth was really happy when he picked him up :( yah i met up with britt at the hostel and checked out a mountain that her and her boy friend are developing its amazing up there but we did have to off road in a land rover up and down the mountian :O i was kinda freakin hahaha but it was totally worth it for the view! i love just biking around town and chillin on the beach its so beautiful here!

almost flying!

well now I am just hanging out at the airport iv got about 2 and a half hours to kill. I totally cant wait for this trip i couldn't sleep at all last night...after frantically packing for 3 hours then lying in bed remembering things i forgot one by one running back downstairs to pack them. well i sure hope i have everything i better damn well have everything because my arms are just about ready to fall off! anyways i will post again in Costa Rica!i wish this was my plane.......