Now, something about the house here, is that at night time, an alarm gets set for certain areas of the house, including the kitchen, but not the small lounge which has a window into the kitchen.
Yesterday, Jose had told me that we were to be leaving at about 8:30 in the morning. So, when I woke up at 7:30 I thought it would be time to get ready, plus Jose's parents are usually up at 5:30 anyway.
However, when I walked out of my room, nobody was there. I kept looking around thinking surely someone must be up, if not Jose then surely his parents. But as I ventured further and further into the little lounge, I could see that no one was in the kitchen and nothing was set out for breakfast.
Suddenly, there was this huge noise, I had set off the alarm. The sensor had picked me up through the little window into the kitchen... I stood there in shock not knowing what to do. I walked back to the doorway of my room, waiting for either Jose or one of his parents to come out, but it was nearly another 5 minutes before Jorge emerged from their bedroom. The alarm had stopped in the meantime.
All he said to me was "Tranquilo" :)
I jumped in and had a shower, and when I got out there were two of Jose's friends at the kitchen table, Rodolfo and Josue, turns out they were coming too.
We left just after 8:30.
The price of the tickets surprised me a bit, they were $15 USD. I think I was expecting it to be a bit most expensive, like it would be in New Zealand.
I wanted to keep my camera with me, but the others said it wouldn't be a good idea to be leaving it in the places that they supply to put personal property before each ride. So it went in the locker that we got with the stuff the others had brought too.
After not having been on a rollercoaster for probably 5 years, I was quite nervous.
We started off on one called 'Boomerang'. It took you backwards up a slope before releasing you doing loops, then being pulled up another slope, before going back the way you came, but backwards, hence the name boomerang. Jose and I sat right up the front, making me even more nervous.
However, once we were going, I loved it. I got off the ride buzzing.
So we did it a few more times since there were no crowds, during which another one of Jose's friends, Julito, arrived.
We did all the rides at the park, from the tower type, to water park types to fling you all around types.
But on none of them, not a single one, did I make a noise of either fear or excitement, in some cases I would actually talk on the ride. I would just sit there smiling without a sound.
The water rides were interesting since it wasn't exclusively a water theme park. No one was in togs, or anything better suited for water. There were two water rides, one in a little blow up, 2 person boat, that went down a hydroslide, and the other, a big group ring ride.
I came out wet from the waist down on the first, but I was far better of than those who went with Josue. This is because he knew a trick to get really wet, so those who went with him, including Jose, got saturated all over.
We had a quick lunch, well, it would have been quicker if I was by myself. See I went to a place called Spoon, which is a cafe/Costa Rican style food place, which had hardly any queue, so my food was ready in about 5 minutes. While the other 4 decided to go to Taco Bell, which had a mountain of people at it. Being the person who doesn't want to sit down at a table by myself, I waited probably about half an hour while they waited for their food.
After lunch, we went on some more rides. Ones that probably aren't the best after just eating a whole heap of food, but, hey, none of us had an issue.
My favourite ride of the day was actually the one that before going on it freaked me out the most. This was because the ride before we went on it, there seemed to be an issue with it because they did a ride with no one on it, to seemingly check things were ok. It was one of those rides where you all sit down on two tiers and get spun around and flipped back and forth. Turns out later in the day they actually stopped people riding on it. Freaky.
At about 3:30 I found out the the godchild of Guisella and Jorge was being baptised at 5pm, and we were supposed to be going too. So of course, I started to make us move along, and cause I wanted to get my camera out and take pictures of the place. But Jose just decided to say we wouldn't be able to make it in time, and said not for me not to rush.
However, we ended up leaving about 30 minutes later by bus, and left the other 3 there.
Turns out, the second bus we took, while it got us in the general area of home, we had to walk quite a while, ended up taking about 30 minutes. We got home just after 6 when everyone was arriving home from the baptism.
While, we had missed that, there was another event for us to go to. This event was at the aunty of Guisella's house, and was for taking down the little Christmas shrine that every house has.
There were so many people that I didn't know, which sometimes just makes me want to hide.
There was a whole little ritual that happened with the 'shrine' or as they call it here a 'portal', this took about half an hour, before we had lots of food.
Supposedly every house with a portal has to have a little event when they are about to take it down for the year. Jose told me that's how people get fat.
We then got home, and just relaxed for the rest of the night.
Turns out that Jorge and Guisella had left the aunty's house an hour before us, and had gone to another house for dinner. I thought they were already in bed, it had just been lost in translation.
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| Taking a nap with my new friend |
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