You guys took my birthday money, got me arrested, sent to Miami with no way home except to take down the country of Peru - and I'm being a dick?

So I´m now down in Peru. We arrived on our flight with no problems, less the $26 departure tax, and $14 hostel pickup. We are in the Miraflores district , which according to sources is wealthier, safer, etc than the main part of the city. My indications say this is true. Yesterday we did our basic grocery shopping and money grabbing which took 3 different ATMs to get one to spit out some money. A pleasant surprize has been that Peru looks to be much more affordable than Costa Rica is, yet our accomodations seem to be better than anything we had in CR for the same price. Today we walked around the downtown area. This required us to get one one of the little busses they have that drive around the city. The lady at the hostel told us to take the 5C which was written on the side mirror of the bus. We waited for a few minutes watching people get on and off but didn´t see ours. Each bus had a guy yelling out the destination and collecting the money and bringing in people. After some confusion, we see the one we´re looking for just as we were about to go and ask the hostel for help. The total of the trip was about 85 cents vs a $4 cab ride. In downtown we checked out the Iglesia San Francisco, which was a very European feeling old church, but had pile of exhumed bones from the catacombs below. We also partook in ´cebiche´which is their local raw fish in citrus juice dish which was pretty good in my book. Lora also took pictures of a lady selling this tiny eggs on the street, so i tried those to limit any hard feelings. No diarrhea so far. cross your fingers.

Getting Gay with kids is here!

Welcome children to Costa Rica. We arrived on time and sleep deprived into San Jose. We attemped to get a decent price to the hostel to no avail but it was worth a shot. We stumble into the Galelieo hostel at about 9am to find out (as expected) our room wont' be ready til one -ish. We then took the hostel dude's advice since i was in no mood to think of where we should go on our 10 day stay here. i then proceded to attemtp to stay awake with some delcious localish coffee but Lora went straight to the couch for a nap. and nap we did. We napped pretty much until 3 or so then went on a walk to look for the bus station tohit up Puerto Viejo de Talamanca. After realizing that most streets had no signage and about 14 wrong turns and 3 poor excuted direction asking atempts we find our selves at the bus stop to gather info. We couldn't buy a ticket but got the schedule. The evening consisted of *gasp* eating mexican style food (why, who knows?) but was rather good and napping some more.

Today we woke up late (I belive this is the beginning of a trend here) Grabbed some more pastries and headed out to the bus stop. Of course, in our tired state we failed to let our cab driver know we are on to him and the ride ended up costing more than that cab back from the station last night. (shakign angry fist at the world) No mattter, i am waiting for the bus and hopefully some relaxing beach camping if we can get the tent up before it rains!