CR Day ??

OK, we've had three really long days without a moment to write. We've been touring around and seeing amazing and wonderful things...we have two more hectic days and then I should be able to slow down and write to everyone and describe the things we've seen.

Until then a few thoughts:

• I haven't seen any sort of pizza delivery here but our local empanada stand delivers...
• Costa Rica needs to work on thier highway systems; the fastest our bus went yesterday was 40 mph and we were on an 8 hour trip...which means we would have done that trip in under 5 hours on interstate highways in the US.
• There is little police presence here but then our hotel has a guard and all the homes have high fences and iron bars in the windows.
• We got home this afternoon, in time to buy veggies and fruit from our butcher. He had some fried food under a "heat" lamp, which he explained was Chicharron...deep fried pork. He sliced up a slab of the meat, squeezed a lime on it and gave each of us a piece; it was great. Needless to say a small piece of Chicharron was part of dinner tonight! Here's a photo for you:

--Pat