So I met up with Jen and David yesterday.  We planned to meet eachother at their hotel around noon or so.  Since they were running a bit late due to transit problems, I decided to wait in the restaurant for a bit and then made my way over to the bar.  I hung out there for an hour or two, learned about guaro, and exchanged bartender war stories with the bartenders there.  The bartender introduced me to their limonada de mente… which I totally need to reverse engineer and begin making.  It’s lemonade, gingerale, and mint leaves (alcohol optional).  Kind of like a mojito but not really.  I also bought a drink made from ginger and fancy rum, but unfortunately this seems a bit too complicated to reverse engineer… lots of pre-drink-making preperation involved with this one.

We had lunch at a local Soda (as little diner/restaurants are called here) and then made our way back to the hotel.  Not overly impressed with San Jose in general, we decided to hang out in the hotel instead.   We made a bodega run and then watched “No Country for Old Men”.

Dinner at Grano de Oro... Try the coffee cake..

Before dinner I had called the hostel I had stayed in the night before only to find that they were completely full.  Jen told me that it was no problem to request a cot in their room and just stay with them.  She explained that they needed to wake up at 4:00 in the morning to catch an early cab to the airport, but if I didn’t mind this then I was more than welcome to stay in their room.  This seemed like the best option.

The hotel was really nice by the way, it was a renovated victorian house that had been converted to a hotel.

So midway through dinner, David handed me a keycard and was like, “here you go, room 30″.  Due to my lack of critical thinking skills at the moment, I thought he was just giving me an extra card to their room, however, unbeknownst to me, they had actually ended up getting me my own private room.

p.i.m.p... and it has two beds. People seriously need to come visit me down here, for some reason, wherever I go, I always have multiple beds in my room (which for the most part are usually unoccupied)... oh, and its good that they were doing minor construction in the room next to me this morning, otherwise I probably would have been a lazy bastard and slept all day... the bed was SO comfortable.

So anyways, a big thank you to Jen and David.  Hope you guys had a great time down here.  It was great to meet up with you, even if it was only for an afternoon…