Saturday, March 18, 2006
Journal Entry #10: Peder Wiegner
Journal Entry 10: Peder Wiegner
March 11th and 12th, 2006
On Saturday, March 11th, we ate breakfast at Bread and Chocolate in the
morning, and then rented bikes and headed out to Punta Uva, one of my
favorite beaches. It is about a 40 minute bike ride from Puerto Viejo.
It had been rather cloudy throughout the day, but the sun peeked through a
few times. I was hoping that we would be able to see monkeys and sloths
(although I'm not the biggest fan of monkeys). Near the end of our stay at
Punta Uva, Jon and I heard some faint howling in the trees deeper in the
forest. We quickly gathered everyone and raced to find where the monkeys
were. Before we actually saw any monkeys, we saw a sloth hanging upside
down scratching its arms. Then we heard the Howler Monkeys and saw them
jumping in the trees. We entertained ourselves for several minutes trying
to imitate the howls that they made; of course, none of us could really do
this effectively. I'm sure the monkeys were laughing at us.
We were expecting David to show up at Puerto Viejo in the evening. He
arrived a little late because the bus he was originally going to take had
broken down, so he had to wait for the next one. This night we went out for
Thai food at "Chile Rojo."We walked around town for a while and then reconvened at night for
devotions and a debriefing time.
On Sunday we spent our time doing some souvenir shopping and taking in the
last sun rays before having to leave to the capital, San José. We left on
the 4PM bus to San Jose and arrived around 9PM. From the bus station to the
Federation, we all piled into a taxi-van from 1973 that was burning oil and
on the verge of breaking down. Needless to say, we arrived safely and went
straight to sleep.
March 11th and 12th, 2006
On Saturday, March 11th, we ate breakfast at Bread and Chocolate in the
morning, and then rented bikes and headed out to Punta Uva, one of my
favorite beaches. It is about a 40 minute bike ride from Puerto Viejo.
It had been rather cloudy throughout the day, but the sun peeked through a
few times. I was hoping that we would be able to see monkeys and sloths
(although I'm not the biggest fan of monkeys). Near the end of our stay at
Punta Uva, Jon and I heard some faint howling in the trees deeper in the
forest. We quickly gathered everyone and raced to find where the monkeys
were. Before we actually saw any monkeys, we saw a sloth hanging upside
down scratching its arms. Then we heard the Howler Monkeys and saw them
jumping in the trees. We entertained ourselves for several minutes trying
to imitate the howls that they made; of course, none of us could really do
this effectively. I'm sure the monkeys were laughing at us.
We were expecting David to show up at Puerto Viejo in the evening. He
arrived a little late because the bus he was originally going to take had
broken down, so he had to wait for the next one. This night we went out for
Thai food at "Chile Rojo."We walked around town for a while and then reconvened at night for
devotions and a debriefing time.
On Sunday we spent our time doing some souvenir shopping and taking in the
last sun rays before having to leave to the capital, San José. We left on
the 4PM bus to San Jose and arrived around 9PM. From the bus station to the
Federation, we all piled into a taxi-van from 1973 that was burning oil and
on the verge of breaking down. Needless to say, we arrived safely and went
straight to sleep.
# posted by M.A.P. @ 9:03 PM 
