My room- my bed's in the back corner.
Today was a free day, and since we went to Saturday night church yesterday, we decided to be tourists today. We took a bus into downtown San Jose and wandered around. Without really knowing where we were, we managed to hit most of the tourist hot spots- the central plaza, the cathedral, the national theater, another theater and the Gold Museum. We didn't go into any of the buildings- we just did the outside walk-by tour. I was surprised by how small San Jose is. It's the capital city and the largest city in the country, as far as I know, and it had a tinydowntown district. There were just a few sights listed in my guidebook for San Jose, and we saw most of them in our wanderings. The buildings were mostly just a few stories tall.
As we walked back in what we thought was the general direction of the plaza central, looking for an ice cream shop we'd seen earlier, we ended up back at the little park where the bus stop is. There was a church group there doing mimes and skits to Christian songs. We stayed and watched a few and ate our lunches. It was really fun. From the bus stop we knew how to get back to the plaza, so we went and got the ice cream we'd all been wanting. I was so excited to see mora ice cream again, one of my favorites from when I was in Ecuador. (black raspberry, I think, or maybe blackberry). It started to rain as we finished our cones, so we headed back to the bus. It poured while we were at the bus stop waiting for our bus and wondering if we would even know which the right one was. Fortunately for us, most of us had brought umbrellas and there was a covered waiting area at the bus stop. Also fortunately for us, the first bus we got on DID go back towards our house and the bus driver even told us when we needed to get off after Reanna showed him our address cards.
So, now we're back, feeling like we were adventuresome, slightly damp, and proud of ourselves for navigating the public transportation system and the streets of San Jose without a map and without mishap. It's only 1:40 here, and we're not really sure what to do with ourselves for the rest of the day.
Breeana and Kendra outside Teatro Nacional
Plaza de la Cultura
Random statues in front of the bank.
The cathedral
The other theater- I forget its name, but the tourist map in the middle of la plaza de la cultura had it marked. :)
A plaza across from the cathedral
Left to right- Reanna, Alex, me, Kendra
Church group doing mime.
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