Sunday 10/5/08

Today we slept in a little more than yesterday and enjoyed our final short day at the beach. We packed up our stuff and headed out to the beach one more time before we left. We stopped at Mu (our nickname for Musmanni, a bakery that’s everywhere in Costa Rica) and grabbed a quick breakfast before jumping on the bus that left at 10. We had a nice but hot 2 hour bus ride to San Jose and we somewhat sad to be returning to the ordinary (which equaled back to school, routines, etc.) I headed home on my usual bus and was greeted by my wonderful family who said they “missed me lots” all weekend. I went in search of cremoletas (popsicle-like treats) with Pamela and after hitting up 4 different pulperias brought some home for the family. I uploaded pictures from the weekend, caught up on the last few days of journaling and began homework. After a nice afternoon of homework and a Sunday chat with the parentals we had a family bible study since we didn’t make it to church today. We read through Ecclesiastes and had a good conversation about different seasons of life and being content living in the here and now. Afterward I somehow got onto the subject of my real family’s traditional pizza night. I figured for everything my family here has done for me it would be a nice idea to extend the invitation and ask them if they’d like to go out for Sunday pizza. They all were way beyond excited by the idea so they quickly got dressed up (an odd thing they do depending on where we’re going) and I took my family out for family pizza night. We enjoyed the evening and I even got to color on the kids menu (what I do back home even though I’m 21). We made a quick stop at the grocery store and headed back home. What a weekend!