day 29: manuel antonio part 2

slept in until 10am and made a deal with the manager of our hotel. we were suppose to checkout at 11am but our bus didnt leave until 5pm. the problem: where do we put our bags for those six hours. he said we could leave them in his office and get them around 3 or so. we figured since we only had one more day at the beach we ought to enjoy the sun as much as possible while we can. the day was spent mainly the same as before except steve took surf lessons for a few hours and i rented a boogie board because its easier and cheaper. we had lunch at the marlin yet again and relaxed as much as we could. we caught the 3 oclock bus back to our hotel, took a shower in the pool, changed clothes and headed in to catch our bus in quepos. it came to be 5:30 and our bus still hadnt shown so we started to get a little worried. come to find out it would never show and we were forced to combine the 5 and 5:30 buses. what does this mean, it means that several people didnt have seats. for instance i had a ticket for seat 30 but so did a lady for the 5:30 bus. this gave steve and i the wonderful opportunity to stand up for the entire trip back to san jose. the normal person would complain but we decided to make the best of the situation by talking to everyone else standing and annoying those with seats. while standing we got a great view of the driver and his lack of ability in operating a huge vehicle. we witness him blow past motorocycles, and perform his infamous move: the 5 car pass while going around a curve uphill. we did not complain though because it allowed us to make it back in the world record time of 3 hours with 1 stop. a few 45 minutes faster than it took us to get there. once in san jose we had to get connected with our return bus to san joaquin and we didnt have a bus schedule on us. regardless we waited at the stop for 15 to 20 minutes at 9:30 at night with our bags. we were basically bullseyes and shouldve been wearing a shirt that said rob me, please. after 2 locals came up to us and told us that the area was muy peligroso (dangerous) we decided to take a taxi home which only cost us $8. i made it home by 10pm, took a shower and layed down for at least 2 hours before i finally went to sleep. i was so exhausted but this weekend was probably the best ive had here, even though our transportation cancelled, the hotel lost our reservation, and we had to stand up for 3 hours in a public bus. good times, cant believe i dont have another weekend left in this country.