ahhh, beautiful costa rica...

its lush and green and giving me allergies. if its not one problem its another. from my skin infection to my sneezing and nose blowing, i´m quite a mess. jerome and i decided our friends erin and raul would be very bored with us...we usually have early dinner, i take my ¨meds¨ while jerome has a few beers to make him sleep and then we are in the room for the night by about 8 30pm. erin and raul would be very disappointed in us, but we´re old people now, approaching the 30s and just can´t take too much excitement. so, we enjoy our days and get a good night´s rest. we seem like an old couple... todays activity - overpriced thermal baths. actually they were very nice, and probably reasonably priced, we are just really cheap! i guess peace corps made us that way. we opted for the ¨minimalist elegance¨over the ¨mix between ceaser´s palace and epcot center¨and i think we were both happy we did. the naturally hot baths which are warmed by the heat from the nearby volcano were quite enjoyable, and formed waterfalls into rock pools with misting showers and nice places to sit. we had the place to ourselves, minus a few tourists who must have just paid to come through and take photos of the place. we did our best to give them a few $$$ shots.

tonight we had jerome´s favorite...pizza for dinner... and plotted out our next few days. are meeting up with some other friends in panama after a stop at the beach with one of jerome´s friends from Honduras. jerome and i like to think about all of our friends who are back home and working while we are relaxing in waterfalls and thermal baths. really, we love you all, but are quite happy to be here, instead of in the ¨struggle¨... we are enjoying all the beauty of life and starting to plan out how to re-enter a world we are so scared of...

goodnight!