Montezuma, day two.

Woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise.

Bea and Swiss guy and Canadian girl wanted to go to this waterfall, but I didn´t really want to be around those two (not Bea), so I declined. The Canadian girl was too loud and obnoxious for me, and that Swiss dude and Bea made me really uncomfortable. She knew that.

They left and I walked down the beach the same way we all walked down it yesterday. Oh, before that though I stopped at this little bookshop and exchanged my book I got when I traded with a guy in Monteverde in exchange for a chic thang called Chasing Harry Winston. She also wrote The Devil Wears Prada. I also picked up a thing of cookies and water from the supermarket. Walking down the beach I picked up lots of great seashells. I got yelled at by a guy from his porch- he said that this was a natural reserve. I was going to retort with ´well then, why is there so much garbage?´but decided against it. Seriously, the beaches are great, but with the last storm a lot of plastic garbage was washed up on the beaches.. so it looks horrible. I even saw two syringes among the trash! It took me about an hour to walk to where it took us 35 minutes with our surfboards yesterday. I went all the way to La Playa Grande, hung out there on the beach by myself for a few hours.. and then went back to the waterfall I passed earlier.

There was this guy who passed by me in the morning, and he seemed to be waiting for me on the trail. When I passed by him he followed me and tried to talk to me in really fast spanish. We held a long conversation that consisted of many subjects such as: my boyfriend, why my boyfriend wasnt in Costa Rica, why I couldn´t have two boyfriends, why I was travelling by myself, why I didn´t want his weed, etc. etc. It´s great being a girl, isn´t it? When I got to the waterfall I said a hearty Adios! and meandered off the trail. I sat in the water a while and explored lots, eventually settling on a little runoff stream where I made bracelets by knotting thread. Great fun. People came by and swam, and I was about to leave when I hear this obnoxious (and quite loud) hooting coming from above. I look up and there was this black monkey, I´m assuming he was a howler monkey. As I look further I see two spider monkeys hanging and swinging all over the place. They were so cute! Once it got too dark to see them I headed back into town.

Oh, on the walk over to the beach I saw a really cool iguana. He was just sitting on the trail, looking up at me with his super bright green body and olive green tail. He was pretty impressive and also quite enormous. I was thrilled.

I got back into town and got some food for dinner- chick peas, tortillas, and an avocado, yum! I passed by a pizza restaurant and where I saw Bea and Swiss dude. She told me she had some extra pizza that she was going to give me, but it had cheese on it. I went back to the hostel where I had my yummy dinner and played with this great dog that I named Luna. She´s a medium sized dog with big ears and a long muzzle. Her coat is all black, minus his paws which look like they´ve been dipped in mud. She loves chasing cars, which scares me to death.. but never runs into them and always ran back to me, sitting in the hammock. I played cards with the four kids from London, two guys from South Carolina, and a guy from Germany. There are lots of travelers from Germany, btw. It´s good, because I enjoy practicing my German and being complimented on my accent.

I went to sleep, alone. I didn´t see Bea the rest of that night.. the dog tried to follow me up to my room and I fed her the rest of the dog food I had (yes, I carry that around with me), and my last tortilla.

See ya,
-S