18 January 2007 12 views No Comment Print This Post

Today we just stayed at the resort and relaxed after yesterdays long trip up to Arenal Volcano. We lounged poolside and did a little SCUBA in the pool. I was surprised how excited my wife was about SCUBA. She is actually considering going on a discovery dive tomorrow. I’m kind of trying to talk her out of and trying to convince her to do the canopy tour instead.

While we were walking the beach this morning, we saw some Coatimundi tracks in the sand and watched fish in the tide pools. A woman who was walking down the beach, while we were walking back, told us about the resort on the end of the peninsula and about the great view of the sunset.

When it was about time, we walked out of the resort and up the road to the next resort down the road. For some reason, the whole area smells like smoke today. You can see smoke coming over the hills across the street from the resort. The road actually ends at Costa Blanca del Pacifico. The resort is practically dead, but there are a lot of Costa Rican cars parked long the road in the resort. Maybe this is a popular place for locals?

We stopped at the bar first, of course. Costa Blanca has a great, big, outdoor thatched bar area. It’s huge. The bartender didn’t speak a lot of English but we didn’t manage to find out that there are only 10 people at the resort, for whatever reason. They have an assortment of beer choices (Imperial is not my favorite, at all) and I discovered Bavaria Dark. It’s delicious! It’s so good, we got a couple of bottles before walking up to the area where you can see the sunset.

At the end of the path, there is a large, flat area where you can watch the sun go down over the Pacific, between some rocky islands. It was beautiful.We stopped at the bar on the way back and ran into a couple from our trip who had come up a little too late to see the sunset. We threw back a few more Bavaria’s and decided to have dinner together at the Italian, because they had reservations for tonight. We got a couple more Bavaria Dark’s to go.

On the way back, you could see a line of brush fires had come over the tops of the hills across from our resort. Since the sun had set, you could see the red embers burning in a sagging line on the hill.

The staff at the restaurant was pretty impressed with our beer choice. Seriously. They acted all interested in it, said it was a good beer and actually found us a can of Bavarian Dark and a bucket of ice to keep it cold. What a riot!

Now that we have actually had some good beers, we are ready to party. I had actually complained around noon time that I was toast. I was done being on vacation and tired after yesterdays trip, on top of all other trips this week. But, now with a few good beers behind me, I and ready to dancing. We gathered up a bunch of people from the trip and hit the disco.

Apparently the fires started making a lot of people nervous at the resort. Some people from our trip started coming in to the disco, excitedly telling us about the fires and worrying about whether we needed to leave or not. It ended up that nothing happened, but someone did get a firetruck to show up. We tried really hard to get the DJ to play “the roof is on fire.”

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