Do you know the way to San Jose?

PARTY-

On our last evening with the community we organised a goodbye and thank you party. The evening began with a play session with the locals kids, and our favorite little girl BELINDA and Juanita who had a little bird called Juan. As it got dark the party moved to the cuban doctor's house. The latino musica was pumping and the dancefloor, aka the porch was jam packed with locals dancing. A couple of our team members were rather embarrassed at first but after a while were forced into it and after a wee bit longer enjoyed it. Hats off to Hannah Scarf who won a dance battle against Hector and other unkown locals, her 'prize' was a dance with look a like Ronaldo. The locals wanted the party to go on for a lot longer than the tired team who needed to get up at 5 am the next morning for our 8 hour bus journey to San Jose.
So we said goodbye to the cuban doctor and his family, and our new friends in the village...especially the dogs.
At 5 am the next morning everybody was up to wave us off and we trudged along the road for 1km laiden with our heavy bags in order to catch our bus. Jorge Curioso tagged along with us as he is Luby's BFF. Some of the group were confident that he would find his way home by himself as he is a dog. However two near misses right in front of us of a car and a truck left us feeling less than confident that he would survive the homeward journey...

So the 8 and a half hour bus journey.
4 comatosed zombies
10 able bodied
enough said.
Arrived in San Jose at a bus station. Got the map out and started walking to the hostel. Little did we know that we navigated from the wrong bus station on the map. We ended up in the 'red zone'=danger
The welcoming sign seemed particularly ominous; Welcome to the Ghetto.
Then like an angel on a pick-up truck the nice man from the hostel Pangea randomly drove past and sorted out transport for us.
Hostel Pangea is quite frankly paradise, there are mattresses and palatial bathrooms and not only that, actual hot water. 10 burgers were ordered for the able bodied while the chunder monkeys had a simple snack with water.
Free internet and TV room topped the experience off and the 'pool' which is like a fish pond. You can tell we've got it pretty tough at the moment.
The chunder monkeys were put into quarrantine and the able bodied got up at 6 am to leave for Puerto Jimenez. Today is a travel day for them and rest for the CMs ready for our 4 day trek through the jungles of Costa Rica, lets hope we all make it back in one piece.

Over and out for the next wee while,
Moraes, Watson and Gordy