has it really been a month?

indeed it has. i am now typing from the halls of syracuse university.

so much has happened since i left, im not sure where to begin.

for one thing, i went to costa rica, so that definetly needs to be covered. all my pictures can be viewed on my flickr account or my facebook account (if you have access to that info) but here are some of the ones i really love.

flowers at the gardens

coffee plantations near san jose

mariposa!

monkeys!!

pink orchids at la paz

apparently, these are typical costa rican carts. but i only saw this one.

orosi valley

coffee. i drank this too much. but i swear it was necessary

pictures from the wedding i went to in orosi. at this one point, the band found out i was american and played this medely of american songs. but it was like elvis and other stuff like that.

these were the boys from my mission site in Cahuita.
abner and arturo.

eeeeee! GINA!!! magical costa rican princess of the universe. these were the girls from my vacation bible school.

this is a girl from one of the houses we visited. her mother cooked food for 50 of us for about 6 days.

vacation bible school

we never really figured out this boys name because he was deaf and mute but we just called him mogly like that guy from the jungle book.

this girl was at the little corner shop we went to almost everyday in Talamanca. we wiped it completely of cocacola.

these boys were watching the soccer game between the US missionaries and the Costa Ricans. i dont remember who won.

MOMONES!!! distant fruit cousin of the lychee. they look like eggs/eyeballs but taste like plums.

MARVIN! this was the lead construction guy/maestro on our work site. he was ridiculously nice.

this was as far as we got on the work site. id like to think we built half a house and helped out the family. their original house burned down.

"those are they biggest cojones i have ever seen."

thank god for stuart macris for saying that during the like, 45 we spent looking at these monkey's balls.

the beach/resort playa blanca on the pacific coast.

back in houston, not much has been happening.

oh well, besides harry potter. which ended exactly how i wanted it to. FANTASTICALLY.

midnight book party! you know it. i sort of got really into it. i swear we totally found those stick wands and didnt break a tree to get them.....

kate and jessica who dressed up as the longbottoms because they are oh so clever.

me, teaching everyone about witchcraft.

OH! this was at patronella's. this leeeetttle italian restaurant in the heights that zoe took us to. it was fabulous. the bread was so good and our waiter was hilarious.