The Bakery

This morning I woke up and decided that after a week of adjustment, it´s time to enjoy Costa Rica. What is that expression about idle hands and the devil? Well, I don´t want to invoke any evil spirits so I went on a job hunt! The hunt actually turned out to be very easy as the first place I went into hired me. It is a brand new bakery opening up next week and it´s called... The Bakery! I feel like I am summoning Tess, Kendall, and Shannon and that this must somehow be a prolonged Cupcake exposure effect. After watching Tess ice cupcakes to perfection for three years, I must have started to get jealous.

Anyway, The Bakery is owned by two men who have worked in this area for a long time at many different restaurants so hopefully they have figured out what works and what doesn´t. One of them is Flemish Belgian and the other is Italian. They will be serving nice, big breakfasts in the morning, lunches, dinner with good Italian pasta, and coffee and pastries all day long! I start tomorrow passing out flyers to all the hostels, hotels, and other restaurants in the area. My pay is 700 colones per hour! Which is only about a dollar, but in the United States as a waitress I only got about 3 dollars and that was all taken out for taxes. Let´s hope the tips are good!

Last night Dave and I met up with a friend, Tasha, who we met one of our first nights here. She is from London and is travelling all over Central and South America before journeying onto South Africa and then Australia in a couple months time. She´s leaving today for Peru so last night we got together with her for a goodbye dinner.

Before dinner, however, Dave and I went for a swim in the ocean right around dusk and as I was coming out of the water, I heard a low, gruff noise that sounded almost like dogs barking. It was coming from the highest branches of a tree that I can´t identify and it was a family of monkeys! Apparently howler monkeys are most active at dawn and dusk and I was lucky enough to see this family running through the trees, grunting at each other. They are amazingly quiet when they want to be, though, sneaking across the tree limbs with cat-like stealth.

I am working on getting pictures up. I think I might try to use my neighbor´s computer to upload them so I can at least have them somewhere on a computer. I want everyone to see where we live!

Tourist season must be right around the corner, there is a lot of construction going on in the roads and on a lot of the restaurants and hostels.

I can´t wait to start my job tomorrow! I´m off to paint my room something tropical!