Cake Run

After class Kayla, Tammy, and I walked down to the Automercado in San Pedro and took the bus to Cartago: the old capital of Costa Rica. It is about a 45 minute bus ride for 410 colones (you should kind of get the currency conversion by now haha). Through the city to the country side, and to a new city we got off at a church and I remembered the way to the ruins. I can't remember if I wrote about this the last time because there was so much I did last weekend, but if I didn't it was the place that is considered damned because an earthquake destroys the church right before opening to the public. From some photo opportunities, we walked to the Basilica in downtown Cartago (Cartago is not apart of San José). and was able to go inside and make our way around the church. It was really beautiful today and I kind of joked that we were actually in Heaven. The sun was shining behind this white basilica giving it a type of halo, the clouds were low and actually at city level so we were in the clouds but without the fog, and since this is a Latin American country there must be a guy named Jesús there. From the basilica we walked down and blessed ourselves with and drank holy water from the fountain and headed off to a bakery. There was one that we went to last week with AMAZING cakes so that was the main reason for returning to Cartago: buying a cake. Really, that was the only reason for going. We were able to find the place and the cake for 7100 colones or about $12 We returned to school at about 5h30 and Kayla went home while Tammy and I went to the Hipermás in Guadaloupe (San José). Hipermás is run by the same owners as Walmart and looks almost exactly the same. There we bought Disney princess plates, princess cups, a question-mark candle, and soccer party hats...it is an "under-1000-colones-per-party-item" themed unbirthday party hahaha. It's pretty ridiculous. From the Hipermás we dodged traffic and stood on the dotted white lines in the middle of the street sometimes getting passed by two buses in both lanes at once (which is super scary btw) to get to our bus stop 5 lanes of traffic across the street. I got home and ate chickpeas and rice!!!! (I love chickpeas!) and am on my computer now facebooking and blogging. Kind of can't wait to leave in less than 3 days, but then again I don't really want to leave. It is so amazing here and I feel right at home. I just miss the people that aren't here.