Today there was a "ferreria" or large farmers market, in Heredia. Megan, Hailee, and I went there on our run and it was bigger than we expected! There were vendors lining the street for more than 10 blocks! We saw many different types of fruits and vegetables that we didn't recognize, but it was such a great experience and my favorite part of the day! We spent most of the day touring San Jose. We started off going to the national theater there and got a tour of it. It was really cool to see an old theater that was still preserved. After the tour of the theater, we went to Central Park. It was so busy! There were vendors everywhere and in the middle, they had games like hula hoop, jump rope, and chess for the people to play. I think it would be fun to live there and be able to do that all the time as a sort of community builder. We then went to a market there. It is so different than anything we have in the U.S. It is like a whole street that has a roof on it and vendors on each side selling different items. It is just like something you see on TV. The things they are selling are mostly homemade and it is fun to see them all. For lunch we ate at a pizzeria and the pizza was better than what we have in the US because their ingredients are fresher. After lunch we went to a museum and it had a butterfly garden in it, which was cool to see all the different colored butterflies here. We also saw an old jail area that was here and how Costa Ricans lived in older times. The museum showed some old gold jewelry which was all really big. One of my favorite things to see was how the ceilings in the theater and museum had painted ceilings and also some of the walls had really cool carvings in them. The pictures showed the Costa Rican culture and what is important to them. That night, we went to a discoteca in San Jose called Rumba. It was really fun to try out our new dance steps and experience the night life of Costa Rica. All in all it was a very good, but exhausting day!
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