Costa Rica Day 5: Some Costa Rican Culture

Today we pitched the idea of expanding the student teaching program in Costa Rica to another school principal.  Then we all had lunch with the COSI people, including our friends Montse, Marvin (mar VEEN) and Rolando.   The restaurant has this weird little device for making coffee at the table.  It looks like a little guillotine, with a sock hanging down.  In the sock is Costa Rica coffee beans,

You pour hot water over the beans and it drips through them and into the cup.  Marti says it's excellent and he only drinks coffee in Costa Rica.

He normally doesn't like coffee at all.
Then we took the interbus, basically an 8 person van, on a 3 hour drive to Manuel Antonio, the beach on the west coast of Costa Rica.

Along the way we stopped at a tourist trap for a "comfort break."  While there we saw this amazing cart, filled with trash.  Apparently this beautifully painted wagon is used AS A WAGON.

My hotel in Manuel Antonio is the La Colina.  Very swank, but my room as not as classy and comfy as the one in Escazu.

On the other hand there are no diesel trucks or motorcycles going past.  The only sound is the sound of the Pacific Ocean lapping the beach.  AHHHHHHHH!