the luckiest bug

sorry i haven't updated this in awhile, i haven't felt like i've had a ton to write.
this weekend has been very low key, but very nice. we went out of town last weekend, and stayed in a town called arenal, at a bed and breakfast called the lucky bug. the owners of this b&b are from mt. shasta, so they just looooved pat, and we're so incredibly generous to us. they gave us each a night free there, so that we could bring back our parents when they visit! and they gave us all our meals for free, and let us kayak around in their lake, and we saw wild toucans!
we had planned on going to this festival called palmares this weekend (kind of like the costa rican version of the state fair), so we stayed in san jose. however, it turned out that traffic out to the festival was just horrendous, and we didn't have the energy for a ten hour drinking binge, so we've spent the weekend just hanging out. on friday night, we went over to our canadian friends' house, and had curry and a lot of wine. they live in a house with several other people-- french, americans, texans (a special category of american) and costa ricans. the conversation was in english, spanish and french, and it was really fun to meet new people.
on saturday morning, we got some coffee (at the most adorable little coffee shop i have ever seen) and then went to the farmers market, which i had been looking forward to all week. i was not disappointed. the produce in grocery stores leaves a lot to be desired, and this was just produce heaven. there were probably a hundred stands, of mangoes, pineapples, lettuce, cilantro, onions, strawberries, limes, avocadoes, pears, etc etc etc. it was BEAUTIFUL. so after walking around in a daze, we bought a little of everything and headed home-- after buying some fresh squeezed orange juice. we made guacamole and listened to music and for once the weather in san jose was gorgeous, and it finally hit me how incredibly lucky i am to be here, and what an amazing experience this is going to be. pat will vouch for me-- i was glowing for the rest of the day.
last night, we went to pat's boss' boyfriend's house, for the editor-in-chief's going away party. everyone ended up sitting around on beanbags singing while pat and the editor played guitar. pat is planning on buying a guitar here (you can get them specially made for pretty cheap, apparently) so i'm thinking about teaching myself a song or two (might as well do something with all the free time i have).
today, pat made me pancakes for breakfast and we played scrabble. i baked a chocolate-blackberry cake (yet to be sampled) and now we're sitting in bed, contemplating making dinner.
i'm sure none of this is that exciting to read about, but it was such a nice weekend for me, i wanted to share it with you guys. love you all!