Day 5: Relaxing Day in Jaco

Today we left Quepos for a short trip north up to Jaco, a chill little surf town right on the water.  It was a short bus ride, only maybe 45 minutes and a couple bucks.  Jeremy wasnt too excited though, because he had to carry a random bag of food the whole way there.  Food meaning three eggs and a head of broccoli...There was only one casualty.  It reminded me of high school when you were assigned an egg (i.e. baby) to take care of for a week.  And if you broke the egg, you would fail the assignment.  Lets just say Jeremy was a horrible dad!

We checked into Hotel Kangaroo, and was greeted by Walter almost immediately.  He was super cool and showed us around a little and brought us to our room.  The room was great!  A/C. Check. Private Bathroom. Check. Hot water. Check!  Man, the hot water shower was great!  As much as I loved Wide Mouth Frog, the no hot water was killing me.  The A/C was just icing on the cake.  The hostel was pretty quiet...Im pretty sure we were the only ones staying there the first couple days...I think we finally saw someone else on our last day.  The hostel was annoyingly far from the center of town, which was mainly my fault cause I should have done a little more research.

We settled in a little bit and headed towards town and the beach, good thing the hostel is a couple hundred yards from the beach!  We enjoyed the sand and scenery of Jaco and made our way towards the center of town for some shopping and food.  I hadnt really done much shopping in Quepos, so it was nice to look around a bit.  Jaco is cool, but I must preface this by saying there are drugs and prostitute everywhere...I mean I guess we really only saw a couple prostitutes, but pipes and drugs were everywhere.

We brought our own lunch this time around and it was nice to relax and sit down on the beach and eat.  Consequently, I worked on my awesome Chaco tan.

We went back to the hostel for a little bit, and finally got a chance to relax (really for the first time since we got here).  We took a nap for a little bit (with the A/C mind you), and then went back into town so I could find the next geocache.  It was a little far away and lack of car makes finding geocaches really hard.  So we rented bikes for a couple hours and went for a ride across town.  We ended up not finding it, which was frustrating because we were right there!  Oh well...until next time.

We went back to the hostel, played some cards, and made dinner (finally used that random head of broccoli).