Escrabble.

Thursday, June 25, 2009
So I forgot to mention a couple things earlier. The Monday before the overnight trip to Arenal, the volcano erupted and it erupted again yesterday. My mom said there were over 40 small avalanches yesterday. We caught the end of the story on the news last night. It wasn't red lava pouring out of the volcano like I expected, but steam. Also, it's super late, but I forgot to mention that on the way to the rainforest, the breakpads on the van wore down, so we had to stop at a mechanic place on the way. Roberto had to go into town to buy new ones and they told him it'd take 45 minutes, which we all know in the US would take an hour and a half. So, since we were going to be stranded on the side of the road with nothing to do, we walked to a town called San Mateo. We bought helado (ice cream) since it was so hot and walked around the park. Walking back to the shop, a very recognizable van showed up. I checked my watch: 43 minutes! They had to go into town, pick out new breakpads, drive back, put them on and put them on and it took so little time. There's no way someone could even joke about that happening in the US. It was riducously fast.
Anyhow, yesterday after class, we went to Jim and Laura's house. They weren't kidding about the place having a killer view or being absolutely gorgeous. You'll see in my pictures, but the wall on their pool just ended, like if you looked over the edge, you were looking down into the mountain's valley. It's kind of hard to explain, but once you see the pictures, you'll understand. Their cooker/housekeeper, Susana made some awesome food and again, the guacamole was awesome, although this time Mary Grey didn't make it. Roberto had to take Patrick to the hospital because he's had this really bad rash for about a week now. It was nothing major, but he just wanted to make sure everything was okay, and find out what could have caused it. Most everyone left early, but Koren, Jennifer and I stayed longer, so we played Escrabble. It was really hard to come up with Spanish words. The game was actually in Spanish, so it had Spanish letters, too, like ll, ch, and ñ. We broke all the rules. We ran off the board, helped each other, traded letters and everything, but it was so much fun!