Let us start off by saying the weather here is sunny and about 80 everyday! It is absolutely amazing how perfect the weather is. Elisa and I found ourselves walking around the city the other day and stumbled upon this open air market that was huge. There were all sorts of tropical fruit stacked two stories high. The colors were amazing. There was a whole aisle dedicated to fish which were sitting out n the counters and a few five foot long sharks were laying out as well. The next aisle was chicken. Some were whole and some were split in half exposing their guts. The next aisle was the amazing fruit and then next to that were the beef and pork aisles. We saw some huge pig feet and Elisa really wanted one (at least she said she did ). Most importantly though we had the best Tamales ever!!! They were only one sole and came fresh from the steamer out of the husk. Everyone just stands around the little kiosk and eats their tamale. One lady assured me that these were the best tamales around. Everyone in the market was very friendly and reaching out trying to get you to sample their products. Great place for a really cheap lunch!!!

After we wandered back to the hostel and got ready for a night out with the staff. To start the night off we played “extreme jenga” which is quite dangerous. They have these huge jenga pieces and they stack the tower differently. There are extreme rules that go with this game as well such as; if you use two hands… you take a shot, if you use a stool to get your piece to the top… you take a shot (this was the most worrisome for Elisa because the tower gets really really tall), if your piece is too easy… you take a shot and the worst one was if you make it fall you take two shots! I personally took one that was too easy, used two hands, and made it fall. When it starts to get wobbly they give you a hard hat before you take your turn. Elisa had used two hands and then got stuck playing the next round because she was in the bathroom when it started. It goes without saying we are ever playing “extreme Jenga” again! WE had a good time out with the staff. I was part of a social experiment with a guy from Israel. He is studying how people interact and we analyzed a group of four people just watching how they interacted and what kind of relationship they had. When we had reached our hypothesis we walked over to the two couples and he asked them in Spanish if we were right and we were! Kinda fun. While I was doing this, Elisa and our new english friend Netti were getting Salsa lessons from a couple locals.

As, for what we did yesterday, NOTHING. It was really “well nice” in Netti,s words to just have a day off.