Kepfram & Ellie's Travel Journal

No sushi in the VIP.
In retrospect this seems kinda obvious, but I felt obligated to try it @ least once. The sushi @ the movie theater wasn't very good (gasp in surprise). So our movie night was doubly disappointing, neither Charlie & the Chocolate Factory nor our sushi were what we were hoping for. On the positive side, the crepes that they serve in the movie theater were very nice, so it wasn't a total loss.

Anyway, as Ellie said I've got a job this week, but it's part-time & @ this point I don't know how many classes/hours I'll be teaching after I'm through with orientation/training so I'm going to continue my job search to be on the safe side.
I'm still struck by the economics of Costa Rica. After shopping @ Pequeño Mundo yesterday I bought some designer black dress shoes for under $20, but there are few laundrymats here & it costs about $4 per load to have laundry done. Whatever. I've decided that once I have a disposible income I will become a clothes whore & I will return to Costa Rica annually from now on to go shopping & feed crocodilles.

FYI: I've updated this blog so you can all post replies to anything we post here if you like (although someone seems to have figured this out already).
Since I keep talking about how things are I thought I should include some pictures, here are some street scenes from our neighborhood & San José. Note the wrought iron "trash can" in the foreground of the first picture. I'm told Costa Rica has about 4 million people & around 8 million dogs (this country is in desperate need of Bob Barker's help), since most of the dogs here are small people put household trash in those things on trash day instead of trash cans, not that it's incredibly interesting, but it took me a week to figure out what those things were...















Some other things I've learned & seen last week:
Cornmeal doesn't exist here. Which confuses me to no end as finding things made with wheat flour is a challenge. You can buy as much corn flour & corn tortillas as you want, but when I wanted to make pollenta & I had to buy an imported box of "quick cooking pollenta." Ingredients: cornmeal.
Maybe I'm just shopping in the wrong place.
FYI: Corn flour pancakes made with sour milk & sour cream are delicious. You can thank Ellie for that discovery.