pizzazz

Since my last post, nearly 30% of my meals have been pizza. Granted, that's only 2 meals...but it does seem a little curious here where beans and rice are the staple foods.

Tuesday, my hard work planting wild avacado trees (family: Lauraceae) at Finca la Bella in the AM seemed to warrant a fun night out in Santa Elena. The naturalists and I celebrated a staff member's birthday at Johnny's Pizza then went to the tourist-filled bar, Mata e Cana, where I learned wayyy too much about some of the staff. haha just kidding...it was all good fun for sure! This tourist bar suffered from a serious lack of pool tables and dancing, so we relocated to Bar Amigos. Here I enjoyed mucho bailando merengue with wonderful dance partners. I've never been much of a dancer, but I LOVE merengue!

I didn't do anything productive Wednesday morning to earn a night out, but Maddy, Buck, Amy, and I rode to Santa Elena anyway. We left campus to grab an early dinner there, and after some debate, decided on more pizza.

This time, though, it was way more greasy and delicious:

 Here's Maddy and Amy partaking in pizza consumption:

Oh yeah, and there were cats everywhere we went:

(Buck was thrilled!)

After pizza on Wednesday, we ended up back at Mata e Cana where we listened to ska music, got yelled at by a bartender for no reason, and tried to convince Buck to like cats. It was an...interesting evening.