The few days in Honduras

              I haven't posted about the backpacking trip I went on the summer of 2010 because of work other events in my life, and if you haven't noticed I'm really bad at writing.  So from now on I'm just going to write a title of the posting kind of explaining the images and just showing the images.

First days in Costa Rica

8/1/10 to 8/3/10

Once we got into Costa Rica we went to Quepos were the natural reserve Manuel Antonio is located. A part of the group went into the reserve to see the animals, river, and waterfalls, but I stayed out side enjoying the beach. As it started to get dark it began to rain, our plan was to ether to camp on the beach outside of the reservation or another beach close by. But we lucked out because one of the bus drivers got us a school were we cold sleep in. The next day we went a volcano were some of the group went hiking and the others went to the a town near by. Once it got dark we all met up to head to San Jose were we did not know were we was going to sleep until we got word that a church from a very poor neighborhood would let us stay there.

The next day a small group of people and I went to check out the city. To be honest with you San Jose was not that nice, there was only a small section of a ten by ten block area that was very nice looking. That's were we spent most of the day. In one of the little parks there was people feeding pigeons. As we sat there and looked at the people and pigeons I notice that women was garbing the pigeons so her child could pet them.

I have grown up always wanting to going to Costa Rica because I leaner that was were tons of sea turtle migrate to lay their eggs. Later on in life I found out that people ate the eggs, so when I found this stand selling turtle eggs next to candies I had to get a shot. I guess you buy the eggs and then they cook them for you on the spot at your liking.

Weekend of been reunited with my Hallmarkers

So this weekend that just pasted I went to New Jersey to meet up with my photo school friends from Hallmark Institute of Photography. I haven't seen all of these people in about 3 months and it was a great to have spent a weekend with them.

We stayed at Michael Esposito's house who is a great photographer check out is site http://www.espophoto.com. The house gorgeous and is right on the water with a great view and an awesome breeze.

Just about a block way from the house there is a beautiful lighthouse, that we up to the top in, on Saturday. From the top there was a great view of the beach and the ocean. When at the bottom we started to talk to old lady that was sitting next us and she told us that she was there on a friends weekend out, just like us. She told us that she and her friends have been doing these friend weekends once a month for 50 years now. Knowing that gives us great hope to know that we will be Hallmark friends for a long time.

After the light house we walked on the beach and reconnected and talked about our plans for our future. Even thou we all have different plans and are going to live in different place we plan on still staying in touch with each other. Another reason this weekend was so great is because we was all in a house full of photographers and we all understand why we are so passionate with photos and didn't look at each other strange when some one said "OH look at that light!!!", like back at school.

Over all it was a great weekend in a charming place and with beautiful friends.