So today we went on a tour to see how coffee was made with Esterling as our tour guide (Esterling, if you read this and I totally spelled your name wrong, I am so sorry). I believe Rachel also wrote about this tour, but I am going to tell you a different point of view because Ashley was blind for the entire tour.
Last night we got into Alajuela and everyone was pretty exhausted so we pretty much passed out as soon as we got to our rooms at the Pura Vida hotel. Well brilliant me forgot to take out my contacts before actually going to bed and I honestly didn’t even think twice about it….until the next morning. Well morning comes and my eye is a little itchy so I just put in some eye drops and call it good. We get into the van/bus thing driven by our dear friend Esterling and we drive to this little town that I am completely blanking on the name of right now. As the day progresses, my eye feels worse and worse. So bad that I can’t really keep it open for long periods of time because it kept watering and itching and basically just driving me nuts! So by the end of the tour at the little coffee factory, I decide I just can’t stand it anymore because this contact is making it worse, so I took out the contact and went blind. It felt way better but with that, I really couldn’t see a whole heck of a lot. Everyone was great about helping me around because we all know from previous blog posts that I am not the most graceful of the bunch, just imagine that times about 100 when I don’t have eyes! Everyone helped, even Esterling! It was funny because we were going up some slippery rocks and he said “Give me your five” and he held my hand and guided me around a few times, it was pretty cute. I got left behind a couple of times, but no worries Esterling had my back 
so did everyone else. Thanks guys! Needless to say, I learned my lesson. DON’T FALL ASLEEP WITH YOUR CONTACTS IN! I guess Geovanny warned me about that one too…oops! Guess I should listen to good advice =)
I can’t believe our time in Costa Rica is almost over =( I am really looking into making plans to come back again, but until then I am going to look back and smile at the sillyness and enjoy the fun that we had. Thank you to all of the wonderful people that we met on the way. You’re amazing and I’m DEFINITELY going to miss you all very very much. Hope to see you soon!
Pura Vida!
and to think all those years we were worried about you wearing contacts because we wanted to protect your good eye lol nice job Ash