Mantonio

Famous Manuel Antonio.

Left San Jose right after class.  The ride was about 5 hours, and we got to our hostel--Vista Serena--right at sunset.  

It wasn't actually in the park or the small town right at the entrance, it was up on the hill behind everything.  

Went and got some dinner and came back to the hostel, where we celebrated the night.

Woke up early, jumped on the bus to the park (about a 5 minute ride), and started hiking to the beach.  Unfortunately the "money beach" in Manuel Antonio was closed, so the beach we ended at was pretty unspectacular.

But from there we could see another around a rocky outcrop in the beach.  Decided to scale it (obviously), which turned out to be a bit more than we bargained for and took about an hour.

Got to the other beach tired and ready for a swim.  Probably hung out for about an hour before deciding it was lunch time and heading back to the city.  Walking out of the park, though, we saw these little guys!

Lunch was good.

We headed back to the hostel after hanging out a bit and getting some ice cream.  Everyone was exhausted, but I wanted to explore, so Whit and I went into Quepos, the town most people stay in when they visit MA.

 Ice cream cone!

That night, we had a bbq.  I made guac!

The next day, everyone wanted to hang out on the beach, but I wanted to explore again, so me, Bret, and Whit took the bus to Dominical (which was AWESOME).

We surfed for about an hour (Bret got hit in the head with his board, so we called it).  Got lunch and started the trek back to San Jose--took about 7 hours in total.

Check out this lady's shirt.  

 "Do you want to go out with me?" says the shirt...

Anyway, got back to San Jose, and that's it!