fall colors

well fall is here... and it's wonderful! I love everything about fall. the colors, the food, the weather, the clothes, the decorations. everything.

long time... no post

alright... so I just realized that it has been, a while, since I last posted anything. so here goes. since begin home from costa rica, i've been to mexico, then moved out of my apartment, started my job again, laughed at emma's fat-wisdom teeth face, went to lake powell, watched imari consume a lot of marshmallows, stayed at grandma burr's house, driven a lot, hiked a mountain, moved into my new apartment, started school, got a parking ticket and almost finished my first week of classes. woo... that's a lot.

and we're back

well that went quick. we came, we lived and we left in only four weeks. jayne and i were talking on the plane and decided that it all kind of seemed like a dream. it wasn't real life... but it was. and it was awesome.
so after an extremely long journey home... we've finally made it. more than 24 hours of travel, 4 different airports, and 4 different planes (even though it was only supposed to be 3... long story... about 2.5 hours longer than it should've been). but we made it and we're happy and life is good.
what an experience.

el aeropuerto de san jose

in the airplane... well one of them... in miami

dallas airport

and finally home.

el ultimo sábado... falta un día

well today was basically our last day here. crazy. tomorrow we're going to wake up and go to sacrament meeting at the church down the street from our house, then come home, grab our bags, get in a taxi and head for the airport. crazy.
so today we told our mama tica that we wanted to wander around the market of guadalupe (guadalupe is the part of san jose that we live in), so she told us to wait because her friend was coming to get her so they could run errands so they would just drop us off. so we just hung out all morning and then around eleven we headed for the market. which was kind of hilarious, so we ended up just walking around town instead. we found a pretty cool fruit and veggie market though. that was funny. then we decided to head back into san pedro... since we knew we could find our way around there easy enough. so after wandering around guadalupe for a while... and sort of getting lost... we decided to follow headphones guy cause he looked like he knew where he was going. and he did! we made it to the university and knew where we were from there. so thank you headphones guy... you helped us get un-lost.
i really wanted some more pics of graffiti so we followed the train tracks through town and found a lot. i brought my sharpie along too... cause we wanted to leave a little something here :)
so basically, today, we wandered... again. it was fun though and we ate some delicious crepes for lunch, then bought a card and cake for our mama tica. ha ha she almost started crying when she came home and saw it. she saw our packed bags too and wasn't too thrilled about that. ha ha but we may come back someday!

el ultimo viernes... y fue el 13

today was friday the 13th. and it was our last friday here. awesome. today we went to school, took our last tests, did our presentations at graduation, and we were done. we didn't know what to do. the plan was to eat lunch, then find a bus that would take us to some gardens that we could hike around. plan failed. we learned that the gardens were more like flower beds that you can't hike. sad day. but oh well... we went to the mall instead and got a pedicure. awesome. then went to mcdonalds for an ice cream. you can get a big'ol cone for only 300 colones... about 60 cents. and it was delicious. we went and sat in the park while we ate it and saw the most adorable little boy ever. people watching is great fun. then we meandered around town until we found our way home.

la clase de jayne

la clase de mi

el outlet mall

post office

funny little pathway to school to cut across the field

yes... even the pedicure places in costa rica are chinese

el ultimo jueves

and today was our last thursday. wow this week has just flown by. actually, this month has kind of flown by. we're going to be home on monday! that's crazy cool.
well today we decided to try to find this market our mama tica and mi profe told me about. el mercado se llama la sabana. so i had a general idea of what direction we needed to head. and so we walked. and walked. and walked some more. we found a pretty cool cemetery and started playing a fun game of 'whocansticktheumbrellaonthebackpackwithoutgettingcaught.' yea, fun. well we did eventually find the market, but guess what? it was closed ha ha. esta bien. we had a good time and found a cute little park on our way back. and then we walked home. the clouds looked a bit lugubrious, but we decided we could make it anyways. boy were we wrong. we got home and looked like we had gotten in the shower in our clothes, but no worries. our mama tica was watching her novelas and didn't even see us. we hurried and showered and pretended like we had been home for hours ha ha yes.

this is el jueco that i fell in... it kind of ate my leg. and i got a few nasty bruises and scrapes. sad day.