Every other year, San Jose hosts an International Arts Festival. This year it began this past Thursday evening and continues until April 1. We decided to check out the festivities on Saturday.
Naturally, like the Americans we are, we got up early and ready to go. Oky dropped us off and we began to walk around. The festival was held in La Sabana another area of San Jose, in a really big park. They created a large stage in the middle of the park's lake as well as other smaller stages throughout the park. The main attraction were several tented areas (which provided some well-needed shade!) that held lots of art exhibits. You could buy jewelry, bags, clothing, artifacts, candles, etc. We didn't buy much for a couple reasons: 1) We're all broke. 2) We know we don't have much room in our suitcases. I bought a large cloth bag with some recycling/eco-friendly quotes in Spanish to use for getting groceries and things like that.
For lunch, Bethany and I had a large ice cream sundae: three kinds of ice cream, peaches, strawberries, whipped cream, chocolate sauce and peanuts. Delicious. As you can see in the photo, it was complete with a little tropical umbrella.
This area of San Jose reminded me of Colorado. Lots of really tall trees! Check out this picture and (hopefully) you can see that they are multi-colored with purple, green, pink/red, and a natural tan. I'm not sure what type they are but they are beautiful!
All in all, it was fun. There wasn't much going on while we were there, however, except for kid's shows. The majority of non-kid-specific shows were supposed to happen later on in the day. By 2:00 though, we were exhausted from all the walking and being in the sun so much. We took the bus back to Escazu. Oky took us the mall to see a movie, but we missed the 4:00 show and literally couldn't stay awake enough for the 7:00 one. Instead we came home and had supper: hamburgers! However, we had them in the traditional Costa Rican way: bun, refried black beans, crushed up chips, an excellent (not quite as excellent as Adolf/Juza meat, of course though) ground beef patty, tomato, cheese, lettuce, and a top bun too. It was delicious! I was definitely impressed.
We got a new roommate today and I was able to attend an International Baptist Church too. I'll fill you in on all that tomorrow!
Love you all!
Molly
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