I am back home and alive! The flight was yesterday and I’m super glad to be home. Costa Rica was very nice. Here’s 500 pictures.
These are definitely not in chronological order. There is no joy quite like seeing a new Creature out in a foreign place. That’s why there’s lots of pictures. There are also a lot of stray dogs and cats, all quite friendly. We were in a little town called Montezuma most of the days staying with one of Aaron’s friends, then went to Liberia the last day.
The last day, we went tubing down a river that day: it was raining and fairly cold, but the water level had risen and made the whole trip much faster and thrilling than it would have been (I was terrified, but the guides were very good. The one next to me was a c. 12-year-old wearing socks in the river and fighting the current like a bat out of hell. I’d have tipped him so much if I could). I also got my legs stuck on a vine and have a hell of a big scratch on my calves. Such are the rapids.
Most of the days had some nature actively followed by lounging on the beach until sundown. I did lots of beach reading. I finished Maurice (1914) which liked a whole lot. Also bought an archaeology magazine at LAX: surprisingly basic, which makes sense since I haven’t read one since third grade, but fun. We spent a whole lot of time at a great restaurant called Sano Banano: I drank so many smoothies. So many. We flew back in just yesterday night. I got a few good pictures of Seattle.
Also, a few days ago, I found an old article about the whole sperm thing with Aaron. It’s one of the first things that comes up when you google my name. It said something to the effect of, “Jessica says Alice misses her sister, but is enjoying life with her new half-siblings.” I never read any of the magazine articles because I hated being on television and hated attention. I didn’t know they made things up. Mom says they invented lots of bullshit. Don’t believe a word of it. I didn’t replace you with anybody. I also wanted to non-hyperbolically kill myself when I was twelve, so I was not enjoying life. I spent that whole summer wildly uncomfortable with Aaron and the half-siblings and distracting myself with Undertale fan-comics. Don’t believe anything in internet articles or tv-whatever. Mom says the only source that didn’t have glaring inaccuracies was, shockingly, The Daily Mail.
So yeah, that was vacation. We did lots of cool stuff, but I, glad to be home. The cats are very happy. I love you lots. I’m going to lounge in recovery of the airport, mine enemy foul.
With love,
Alice