Nov 3rd- 5:30am……COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOOOOOoooooooooN’T!

Eff me, another reason to go to bed early is because you will be awake early.  But the dogs barking and the bats chittering at night make it hard to pass out. Still have yet to bust out the earplugs, we will see in a few days. LOL as I am writing this there are now a bazillion dogs howling….one goes and they all go off, sounds like we are next to a pound or something.

Coffee making was successful this morning,  saw a few geckos running around the kitchen; one baking in the glow of the kitchen light.  Didn’t take a pic but saw the perfect shadow outline of his body and little gecko toes.

Jay got up just after 6, we decided to go into town today and get a few things.  He needed to buy contact solution, I needed to get more data for my cell phone, wanted to hit up a bank for more colones, book a shuttle out of here on Tuesday Nov 6, and eat some breakfast!!

I tried my debit card and a credit card in the atm and it hated both of them. We got the pharmacy to break our $100us bill at least. Exchange rate is approx $1us-550 colones.  We went to Soda Requisimo for some brekkie, we both had gallo pinto(rice and beans), I had ouevos rancheros and jay had some caribbean chicken.  I also was craving some fresh juice, I got some ice cold mango slushy.

After breakfast, we wandered up the street and checked out some shops, Jay wanted to get  a lighter color tank top, we ended up grabbing a few souveniers as well.

There wasn’t much else we planned to do with our day, maybe just relax on a beach somewhere because we haven’t done that yet. To be honest, while the town is cool and I’m usually coconuts for a caribbean beach…we love the jungle house we are staying in and are content just relaxing and observing the nature surrounding us. We have had a busy few years regarding our work and have had some losses in our lives, that we really wanted to just have a week where we literally do nothing. After seeing the place we were renting, I liked the idea of lying in a hammock, watching the jungle while the rains came down. That is exactly what is happening as I write this, it is dark but I can still hear the birds, frogs and god damn dogs. OoOOoo loud rain now on the tin roof…….AWESOME!!!! Jay and I are 10 ft away from each other and have to yell lol…..pausing this to enjoy…brb

PURA VIDA! We decided to walk down to the Banana Azul beach which is on Playa Negra (black sand beach), it was about a 25 minute walk from downtown Puerto Viejo. We could rent bikes, it would be ok to ride them back to our place but it gets dark by 5:30 and you don’t want to be on them then.

This is a smaller boutique hotel about half way between our treehouse and town. Jayr used to work here and said we can come hang out and use the pool/beach…they have happy hour all day on beach (2 for 1!)

I think it was around 1:00 when we got there….so we ordered a couple cervezas, then a bucket, then another bucket…..stayed on those loungers until 5:30pm HA!!

There are stray dogs everywhere, this guy was friendly and hung around all day, his name is NUTS

YER WELCOME

Also, A tiny leetle berbee gercko was in the sand and we got to hold it. It ran up my arm and started eyeballin’ my bouffy hair…almost would have got lost in my hair and I would have hatched baby geckos in a few days

It was cool to see some local kids playing football on the beach and a guy on a paddle board fishing

At the end of the day our server came around with fresh coconut water….mmm

Dinner started at 6pm in the hotel, so since Jay was super smashed..(or was it me?) we decided to eat there. Jay ordered a tuna steak with a caribbean sauce, came with veggies and rice, I ordered sea bass with a honey/teryaki glaze, veggies and mash. It was more expensive being in a hotel, but still around $40 for 2 seafood dinners. I’m not one to take pictures of my food all the time like all the other Millenials….sorry. I will take the odd one but I feel I can describe it, and if you don’t know what a filet of fish and veggies look like, then……we can’t be friends

This hotel has beautiful gardens and a pond that runs all along the side of the restaurant, there are a bunch of turtles that sun bake on the rocks, I thought they were statues. I thought I got a few good pics, but I was partially blind after the buckets of beer so……insert turtle pic here

We called a cab and headed home, I don’t think I stayed up late. Can’t remember lol.

This Salty Beach is signing off…..