Long time no see...

Wow! It's been a long time since I've posted on here. I've just been busy, busy, busy... The end of the bimester is coming up and I've been running around trying to get last minute grades and papers graded. What a load! However, I did manage to go to Manuel Antonio this weekend, which is an incredible beach here on the Pacific side of the country. You come up over the mountain and then you get a view of the sea. Naturally it is Gringo country as Americans tend to take up the nicest areas of Costa Rica given the dollar to colon ratio. I felt like I hadn't really left the states. I stayed in Quepos with a friend and then we took the bus to Manuel Antonio which is about 15 minutes away. You have to go into the national park to see the really beautiful beaches. It is basically rainforest that comes right up to the sand. There were monkeys in the trees, iguanas, and a really strange animal that I don't the name of. It looked sort of like an anteater, but it climbed trees. Too bad it started to rain about halfway through the day..sigh. That's the trouble with going to the beach during rainy season. Hopefully, I can put pictures up this weekend. I know I keep saying that....