Day 44: Birthdays and such . . .

Today was a nice day. They had a joint coffee and cake birthday party at MUSADE for Cincia, Bernaditta, and myself. I got a a pretty bracelet.

In the evening, five of us had discussed going to a restaurant/bar, and Mari recommended one that she liked going to, so we all headed there. But since we had had the party in the afternoon, most of us were too full to actually want real food, so we got a plate of nachos and beer.

Nachos in Costa Rica - yeah, prefer them without meat…the ones with meet have too much and it makes the chips soggy.

Beer in Costa Rica - in a restaurant you get offered beer with or without melachi, which is a wonderful salt rimmed lime concoction you can pour beer into, that actually cuts the horrible bitterness of a pisner beer, making the very strong tasting Imperial beer not too different than a Corona.

Pretty much the rest of the evening was spent talking, and complaining over how much they were drawing out the finale of Latinamerican Idol. Mary Jose, the Costa Rican singer in the finale lost to the singer from Panma. I believe all women in Costa Rica under the age of 50 felt her pain. Regardless of whether or not they watched the show.