Padre y Bebecito

adsfa The sunlight shining in Emily’s room this morning woke her up earlier than she expected. I had actually woken up before she came in to get me as well. Emma fixed us a good breakfast, eggs and Cereal, bread and juice. We took showers and basically packed up everything except the last minute stuff before we made a trip downtown to the artisan market. I still had some things that I needed to find for people and Emily wanted to go see downtown and get gifts as well. We first tried to go to the internet café close to our house but it evidently was closed. As we walked back passed Emma’s house to the bus stop Suzi was outside sweeping and we stopped to say hello and talk to her so Emily could meet her and Miguel. Miguel was trying to study for exams that were coming up on Monday. He did not want to study so he came along with us to downtown. He was such a big help because we needed to find the internet café so we could find out what time Carlos and Matt’s bus arrived. After that, we went to the market and spent quite a bit of money, more than we thought we would so we had to go back to the atm for a second time that day. We asked Miguel to take us to the bus station since we did not know how to get there, and along the way we found out Miguel didn’t know either. After about walking around in a few circles for about 35 minutes we found it, by actually the same bum that asked Emily and I for money at the taxi. Along the way, we saw another bum sitting on the street wearing a garnet University of South Carolina Gamecocks hat!! Where he go that, God only knows, but it was awesome that we saw that! Who would have thought? We were late getting there and thought that we had missed them. We were so scared that they thought we decided not come or that we didn’t get their message. Fortunately, luck was on our side and we arrived 15 minutes before they did!! We were so happy they came and very excited to see them! It’s funny that we all missed hanging out with each other. They were craving taco bell so Miguel leading the way and catching up on the previous night went to eat lunch at Taco Bell. The rain arrived shortly after we finished so we ran to get a taxi back to the house with our new friends. I was nervous that Emma would be upset that we brought two new people she didn’t know back to her house while we could get our things together. Emma’s house had a party going on when we pulled up. I forgot that with it being Mother’s Day in Costa Rica that she would have her children and grandchildren all there. It was so nice to see such a big close family. Not having a big family, it at first was a bit overwhelming, but I was so glad to see everyone there together one last time before leaving to go back home. They had presents and a big meal and a peach cake. Emma immediately took in the boys and started feeding them anything she could find or offer. That is just how she is. Carlos fit right in considering he is Colombian and understands how a Latino family works. Matt seemed to get along with everyone as well and didn’t have any trouble talking with them. Emma’s family kept them entertained while we got our stuff together. Emma’s son who is the professional musician had his wife with him, and I was so pleased to meet her considering I had heard so much about her. Both of their English was very good. They are such good people and some of the most generous I have ever met before. They did not want us to stay at the hotel that we had booked but we told them we were very grateful but we were not able to cancel the room. They called the hotel for us to double check everything for us and wanted us so badly to stay the last night at Emma’s. In the end, we kindly declined and had Emma call us a taxi. Before we left, I had a big group shot taken of me with her whole family. It is a great picture and I definitely do not blend in by any means. Another rain storm made its presence right as the taxi pulled up. between the four of us trying to get all of the luggage Emily and I had in the taxi we were soaked. We told Emma goodbye and I gave her a great big hug and told her again how grateful I was to have been able to live at her house. It wasn’t as easy to say goodbye as I had expected it to be, but with the rain storm the goodbye was a little abrupt. All piled in the cab, I waved goodbye as I told her goodbye as the taxi began to drive away. Sitting in the cab ride on the way to the hotel I was somewhat silent, partially because I was realizing that my journey in Costa Rica was coming to an end, and I began to reflect on everything that I had encountered and experienced along the way. Hasta Pronto…