Our hotel:
Monkey:
Butterfly
Woke up pretty early today and Linsey and I woke the boys up for breakfast. Everyone met up to eat before we lathered ourselves with sunscreen and headed out. A few of the girls and I stopped to grab towels at a little surf shop on the way before hitting the beach. Once there, we were immediately greeted by Choco, owner of Choco Surf, and his gang of cute surf instructors. 
Since we went in shifts, I attempted to play photgrapher-extraordinaire for the second group. Yay surfing! 
Me & Tuona...modelling...I smiled...darnit!
So once we were all surfed out and the tide was creeping in, we took a break and played some frisbee. Blondie from last night showed up...he works at the bar! Imagine that. We found out that the girl who was in a fight is the owner's daughter...which explains why she didn't get kicked out for beating the other girl's face in last night... haha.
The day seemed to stretch on forever...in a good way. Lots of reapplying of sunscreen occurred to be safe. We had lunch at a little place next to the bar where the smoothies were only about $2. Mmmm. More frisbee amongst Sam, Lins, Amber and I was fabulous before we hit up the bar...which I STILL do not know the name of...to watch the Costa Rica vs. Trinidad and Tobago game. Finally met Frank (the blonde) and Jairo, who were really nice. The electricity went out and the score was 1-1...bummer. Sat around for a bit before we realized that the music wasn't coming back on then packed up and headed back to the hotel.
Rinsed off in the pool then went inside only to find that the boys had gone to eat, minus Tyler who was bedridden with hangover or sun-poisoning. So the rest of us got it together and walked to a restaurant called Esmeralda's as suggested by Eric. Had to get seafood...because where else would you buy it but at the beach where it's caught? And then proceeded to wait 45 minutes for our waiter to bring the bill after Josh asked for it...falling asleep the entire time! It worked out alright because it had started (and stopped) pouring rain in the meantime and since none of us thought to bring our jackets along, we avoided getting completely soaked.
Saw Frank and the other surfers on our way back and collectively decided it was naptime before we went out. We were supposed to sleep for 30 minutes...
4am rolled around and I woke up to Tuona coming home from the night out...What?! I totally passed out earlier and missed the wakeup call that she gave us at 11. Fell asleep momentarily and went into a dream state about getting up to go out since I thought it was only 1 am and there was still time to go dancing before places closed. Except we weren't in Samara, we were in a city...so I wasn't sleepwalking...no worries. Bummer to the wasted night but glad to rest up for tomorrow. 
Woke up pretty early today and Linsey and I woke the boys up for breakfast. Everyone met up to eat before we lathered ourselves with sunscreen and headed out. A few of the girls and I stopped to grab towels at a little surf shop on the way before hitting the beach. Once there, we were immediately greeted by Choco, owner of Choco Surf, and his gang of cute surf instructors.Eric & Me
Lessons cost each of us about $20. Not bad. They gave us the rundown on techniques and such and made us practice on the beach before we went out then split us up. Bryan and I had Eric as an instructor. He was encouraging and helpful. Unfortunately Tuona did not have quite the same luck with her instructor...bummer. All in all we did pretty well. I could definitely tell that I was getting tired when I had a hard time standing up on the board.
Lessons cost each of us about $20. Not bad. They gave us the rundown on techniques and such and made us practice on the beach before we went out then split us up. Bryan and I had Eric as an instructor. He was encouraging and helpful. Unfortunately Tuona did not have quite the same luck with her instructor...bummer. All in all we did pretty well. I could definitely tell that I was getting tired when I had a hard time standing up on the board.
I=Surfer
Fernando & Me
Since we went in shifts, I attempted to play photgrapher-extraordinaire for the second group. Yay surfing!
Sam:
Bryan:
Bryan:
Amber:
Tuona:
Me & Tuona...modelling...I smiled...darnit!
So once we were all surfed out and the tide was creeping in, we took a break and played some frisbee. Blondie from last night showed up...he works at the bar! Imagine that. We found out that the girl who was in a fight is the owner's daughter...which explains why she didn't get kicked out for beating the other girl's face in last night... haha.
The day seemed to stretch on forever...in a good way. Lots of reapplying of sunscreen occurred to be safe. We had lunch at a little place next to the bar where the smoothies were only about $2. Mmmm. More frisbee amongst Sam, Lins, Amber and I was fabulous before we hit up the bar...which I STILL do not know the name of...to watch the Costa Rica vs. Trinidad and Tobago game. Finally met Frank (the blonde) and Jairo, who were really nice. The electricity went out and the score was 1-1...bummer. Sat around for a bit before we realized that the music wasn't coming back on then packed up and headed back to the hotel.
Rinsed off in the pool then went inside only to find that the boys had gone to eat, minus Tyler who was bedridden with hangover or sun-poisoning. So the rest of us got it together and walked to a restaurant called Esmeralda's as suggested by Eric. Had to get seafood...because where else would you buy it but at the beach where it's caught? And then proceeded to wait 45 minutes for our waiter to bring the bill after Josh asked for it...falling asleep the entire time! It worked out alright because it had started (and stopped) pouring rain in the meantime and since none of us thought to bring our jackets along, we avoided getting completely soaked.
Saw Frank and the other surfers on our way back and collectively decided it was naptime before we went out. We were supposed to sleep for 30 minutes...
4am rolled around and I woke up to Tuona coming home from the night out...What?! I totally passed out earlier and missed the wakeup call that she gave us at 11. Fell asleep momentarily and went into a dream state about getting up to go out since I thought it was only 1 am and there was still time to go dancing before places closed. Except we weren't in Samara, we were in a city...so I wasn't sleepwalking...no worries. Bummer to the wasted night but glad to rest up for tomorrow.
Bikes, Hammocks, and Surfboards: Pura Vida!
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