Candlelit Dinner

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Last night, the other chaperona and I had a nice candlelit dinner. It happened by chance because our kitchen cabinets consisted of canned mushrooms, a lot rice, beans and two packages of unidentifiable 'salsa ranchero'.

**So I reread this blog today (Wednesday) and realized I tried to make a funny story out of something rather ordinary. Fail. It was rather long-winded, so here are the highlights of that candle lit dinner instead.**

1. Gabby and I are sitting at the apartment. Starving.
2. The lights go out once.
3. We try to call several restaurants to see if they offered express (delivery). Lights come on.
4. The lights go out again.
5. We call a taxi to go to Sabor Tico, a restaurant in town.
6. We order our food.
7. Power goes out at the restaurant.
8. The kind waiter brings us a candle-in-a-cup.
9. Lights come back on.
10. We finish our quesadillas and guanabana smoothies in a well-lit place.
11. The end.

Our next plan of action was to go grocery shopping after dinner. As luck would have it, the grocery was closed at this point. Luckily, I only ate half of my quesadilla, so I now have food for tonight!

However, we felt like we struck gold when we stumbled upon a Zumba class that was going on in the plaza! You’d better believe that next Monday at 7:00PM we’ll be joining a Zumba class with all the locals!  : )

Headed off to do some volunteer work in the cloud forest!

Pura vida,

Jessica Lynn