This picture above is of Mercado Central

We successfully made our way into San Jose and bought our bus tickets to Nicaragua for Friday. This task went well considering we forgot our map and our guide book. San Jose is a big city, but there are many nice parks. You can see the huge, beautiful mountains surrounding the city when you look down the streets. We explored the Mercado Central (Central Market) and that was so neat. There were touristy gift shops, places to eat, flowers, meats of all kinds (testicles, cow tounge, and every part of a chicken), herbs, hammocks, and even pets! We returned to Alajuela just in time for the afternoon rainstorm...good thing we remembered our rain coats! We took shelter in a Soda, a small neighborhood restaurant, where we had the first of many rice and beans meals, and it was very good.

This picture is of the variety of meats at Mercado Central. The middle pan on the bottom is cow tounge!

This picture above is in Alajuela. You can see the storm rolling in, the soccer game and a church. This is just two blocks from our hotel.

Tonight we will go out to dinner and get to bed early because in the moring we are going North to Poas Volcano National Park where we will drive to the top of the volcano and look inside it. There is also a very nice waterfall we will hike to.
Hasta Luego,
D & J