alright so today we spent in a little town in the mountains and it was great…. after having a lesson in how to make tortillas and buying some coffee we made one final stop at a place where the villagers sold the stuff that they had made… they mostly had jewelry but what made it amazing is that it was all made out of Watermelon seeds.. they had bracelets, earrings, all kinds of stuff. there where other materials there to but i was really impressed with the work, after that we made a second stop at the gift shop so some people could get hammocks than off to a Three course meal back at the hotel. it started with a goat cheese and tomato pastry thing with some salad. this made most of us pretty much drool on the table… but once that was finished the cook out did that dish with a sage and lemon Pork tenderloin that i almost would have killed for… i loved it so much i finished other peoples plates off to. the tenderloin was served with WOK fried string beans and some sort of native white sweet potato that i cant pronounce the name to… never mind spell it… finally after that when we were all about to burst, the dessert came out… it was an orange chocolate croissant dish with homemade whipped cream on the side, this dish was delicious and fun. in fact they asked us to name it.. we did, in typical fashion for this trip it was a silly name that happened to work… “Dude… O.C.D”… which stands for Orange Chocolate Dessert… which it was and many pushed through their stomachs “stop button” to eat most of it if not all of it… today was the perfect day to end the trip and this meal was the cherry on top.. Pura Vida, not only a saying in Costa Rica but also a wonderful hotel with great staff and wonderful food..
PURA VIDA everyone and I’ll see some of you when i get back to the states…
