Beach Bums

Welcome to beautiful Barra de Santiago!

I have pretty much determined that it is next to impossible to travel anywhere new in Latin America and not get lost.
this trip was no exception
After a solid 3 and a half or four hours of driving (to a place only 2 hours away) we finally arrived at our weekend destination:
Capricho Guest House.

I had found this place on the internet and none of us knew anything about it, but it turned out to be...well.....an adventure (like everything else)
The guest house is in a GREAT location. Suzannah said it is all about paying for the location over the accomidation.
Capricho had beautiful guest rooms (here below)

unfortunately they were all full and so the 6 of us had to use the "rustic" cabin as they so eloquently put it.
The cabin was rustic all right!

it looked exciting from the outside...
but the inside was a bit of a different story

looks can be deceiving
but please, don't be deceived
this is a photo of the most uncomfortable beds I have ever slept on.

let's take a closer look shall we....

yes
you are very correct
those ARE rust stains all over the bottom of the mattress
and yes
you CAN feel almost every single spring when you lie down on the lumpy mattress.


ok
so i am not trying to make this sound like the worst thing i have ever gone through
but it was pretty brutal
it was so hot the night we stayed and the electricity went out for 5 hours in the evening so there was no fan to cool us off
eventually it came back on- it was a God send.
i made it through the night, waking up every few hours and praying that it would be light soon so i could get up and stop worrying about a cockroach (Which i had found just before going to bed) pitter-pattering across me!

Tom, Beto, and suzannah (for part of the night) slept outside in hammocks
tom had a great sleep - comfy, breezy, and cockroach free- out under the stars and palm trees


I also woke up in the morning with a HUGE lip from a mosquito bite.
very attractive.


But enough about the sleeping.
onto the really important stuff:

Boogie boarding!


and surfing!




Unfortunately I have run out of time
I need to go wake tom up so we can head off to Guatemala
we'll tell you more about our beach shenanigans when we are back.

peace.