Weekend Report

Sarah: Here’s one last blog entry before we leave the country. Yesterday we had a group of LASP students come visit us. There was one student, Shawn, who is a student at SNU so he had wanted to come visit his campus here in Costa Rica. Trevor, who is a professor at LASP, and his wife Laura came and brought Shawn and 3 other students. We had met Laura last week (we took a day trip into San Jose to switch cars with Anthony), but it was great getting to meet Trevor and spending some time with the two of them. They have a big house in San Jose and have offered to let us stay in their guest room when we make our trips into the city. With the group we hiked to the waterfall in the morning when they arrived, and then came back to hang out at QERC and have lunch together. In the afternoon we actually hiked La Quebrada trail so they could see even more of the property and get a good feel for the cloud forest. It was really fun to host some students and it was great to take a break from working and get back out on the trails.

Today we got an invitation from Efrain and Caridad and Maria Elena to have dinner with them. It was perfect timing, because the next month will be pretty busy for us. And I would have to say that Caridad definitely outdid my meal. We got spinach and egg soup (it was really good) and cooked veggies and bread and even fresh cooked trout straight from the nearby trout ponds. It was such a great meal and it was neat to continue to build the relationship with them.

Tomorrow we leave to go back into the city, and then EARLY Tuesday morning we leave for Nicaragua (we’re talking 5:30 in the morning departure). Every three months we need to leave the country to renew our visas, so it’s coming up on that time and is really hard to believe we’ve been here that long already. We’ll be staying 3 nights at a small lazy surf town and we’re excited to do some relaxing in the sun.