Costa Rica - Power Outage

We kicked off our resort day w couples massage.  For both of us they were somewhat unlike massages we had had before but while different, both were excellent.  So much so we’re considering another round on Friday.

The walk to where the massage ladies were

Other than that mostly spent the day bouncing between beach and pool.  Water in each is super warm - like -*really* lovely.  And flag still yellow so got to play in the waves again.  We’ve found the pool that so far seems to be the quietest and no scrapping it out for chairs which is nice.  

This was not a bad view to see every time we left our room

Only sad part is everybody on the resort speaks English so well that every time I try to speak Spanish they immediately switch to English *sigh*.  I get that they’re being polite but it’s both sad and disheartening for sure.  Our driver on the trip yesterday chatted w me a bit in Spanish but wasn’t fair to do too much of that cause C doesn’t speak it so that’s just rude.  But for random hotel staff things….  Ah well.  Plus side - I understand pretty much everything on the radio (professional speakers tend to enunciate more in any language) and I’d say a strong 70% of random conversations I evesdrop on with no context IF I pay attention.  Lol if I’m not paying attention there’s next to nothing, but arguably the same in English.  My ability to laser focus, even while daydreaming, is impressive.

Not a bad way to spend an evening

Dinner tonight led to an incredible evening when the power went out.  😂. Somehow they finished serving (to be fair, we were almost done), and tried to reassure everyone that this isn’t a usual occurrence.  But C and I just took it as a good time for a moonlit stroll on the beach.  Power was out everywhere within sight so no light pollution other than the occasional cell phone, and a brilliant almost-full moon that made it so it was easy to safely navigate the beach without a light (those who were at our wedding may remember similar nights).   No sound but the waves crashing, no lights but the moon and stars, being a mostly nocturnal water-loving introvert, it was basically perfection. 

I love the beach at night - esp when the moon is full

Power came back on about the time I was starting to think I might want long sleeves, and then the rest of the evening flowed as it should.  This resort has a coffee bar similar to the one we experienced in Mexico, and their hot chocolate is amazing!  So as we did in Mexico, we’ve taken to stopping in there after dinner :)

Really enjoyed the little coffee bar