Last Friday was the start of the 2009 Billabong World Surf Tour hosted in playa Hermosa. We started our morning with Bryan watching the parade here in Jaco. We followed the end of the parade on our bikes to the park where all of the teams were introduced, the crowd went nuts for the Costa Rican team!
Kathia came home and yelled for us to go for a ride with her and her son Gabriel to the food stand at the surf competition. The man who owns our house, Ray, is here for two weeks to work at the surf competition selling in the food court. Ray is also Kathia's american lover man and they have a child together, but we won't get into that :-). It was pretty cool to see the set up of everything involved for the competition and how absolutely nothing was ready for opening day on Saturday...TICO TIME! After hanging around there for awhile we all piled in the car and came home to make signs for Ray's food stand. We now have 3 signs that are being displayed at the Billabong World Surf Tour folks!
Friday night Bryan and Melissa stopped by and talked us into going out for a few hours.
The next day we met Bryan and Melissa at Jaco 360, where Bryan works selling tours. Melissa was handing out coupons and koozies for Jaco 360 at the competition, so that meant a free ride over to hermosa. We were supposed to meet her there and leave around 9....hopefully you're getting the idea of tico time because that didn't happen.


The sun was still shining bright, no clouds in the sky, people everywhere and black sand....not a good combination. There comes a point when it is so extremely hot that you stop caring what you look like and your only concern is staying somewhat cool. Regardless of the heat, we had a great time and met some awesome locals. When leaving, there were no cabs in site and tons of traffic so we decided to hitchhike our way back to Jaco. It didn't take long for a few locals to pick us up and bring us back to Bryan and Melissa's apartment. There we showered and hung in the pool trying to cool off. We were all a little delirious from day drinking in the sun!
After relaxing at their apartment for a bit we made our way to Jaco 360 to pick up our bikes and bring them back to our apartment. It was then that someone fell off their bike, we won't mention any names. No one was injured and it made for a great laugh, for everyone around! Now off to El Bohio, a bar on the beach in Jaco. We all hung there for a bit and ran into a few people we knew but we had enough and made our way back home with Melissa. The rest of the evening was spent relaxing in the a.c. and watching our sunburn slowly appear.
We haven't made it back to the surf competition so far this week, heard its pretty slow now. We will go back again before it ends but we've been involved in lots of other adventures that we will be sure to blog about soon!
hey i fell off my bike, too! only i was going really fast and it hurt a lot! slow down bitches!
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