Day 8 - It was acceptable in the 80s

4th August 2014

Today we had an epiphany. We were all born in the wrong generation (bar Sarah and Lynsey hehe). More on that later...

Yet again, it was a ridiculously early start for us (breakfast at 5:30am). After loading our bags and ourselves onto the boat and waiting to motor away, we realised we weren't actually moving anywhere. Beci flexed her guns (hench!) and hopped out to push. It was a hopeless matter, which of course called for Hope to step up (also hench!)! Together they got the boat moving and leapt Indianna Jones style from the jetty onto the boat.

We were definitely sad to be leaving Pacuare but looking forward to warm showers and a  laundry service.

Breakfast #2 happened an hour into the drive back to San Jose (sliced bread for breakfast earlier on hadn't quite been enough for our huge appetites). Upon arriving in San Jose, we were very excited to visit Costa Rican Scout HQ. Our fondness of the place grew as we were fed Miguel biscuits and ice tea.

We said an emotional goodbye to Helen and loaded onto a new minibus en route to Monte Verde. It was then that we met Carlos, our new group co-ordinator. We soon discovered that Carlos and Sergio (the driver) have very good music tastes as we were treated to over an hour of 80s mash up. It was pretty amazing how many 80s song lyrics us 90s babies know, and quite how much we enjoyed ourselves! Bus singing definitely made a triumphant return today.

After stopping for a while so that the mountain road could be cleared of rocks and rubble, we finally arrived at our hotel. The utter joy we all felt when we saw the sign about laundry service at reception was tangible! We were all so whiffy by this point that we weren't even offended when Carlos 'suggested' that we all go and wash.

Finally clean, we headed to "Amy's" for tea. A fab selection of meals, followed by electricity in our rooms and a proper bed - we really felt like we'd hit the jackpot!

Buenas noches,
Team Costa Rica

Pacuare (adj.) - 1. Cold (eg shower) 2. Damp/moist 3. Generally grim 4. Dirty 5. SWEATY
eg "Ew, this is so Pacuare"


(We promise we liked Pacuare really).