Continued from San Jose Day 3 Part 2.

RL cutting up the giant avocado to feed the kids for breakfast.

Look at it! It’s so big!

What’s the verdict? The kids didn’t like it as much. Maybe we let it over ripen too much, maybe they are not used to this variant’s taste? I ate some, tasted fine to me just slightly over ripen perhaps?

The kids loved this yogurt drink though.

Another beautiful blue sky morning here in San Jose. I can’t help but wonder if this would have been a better day to go see Poas Volcano. Less clouds and perhaps no thunderstorm?

The built in rain cover for the backpack came in handy yesterday during the rain storm. The backpack is still slightly damp where it didn’t get rained on, but it’s mostly dry and the rain cover did a great job.

It’s our last day here in San Jose. We are going to take it even easier than normal. Not gonna leave the apartment until lunch time. We are honestly a little bit tired from all the traveling.

Plus our shoes are still wet from the storm yesterday. I had to set up a drying station this morning with two fans so that the shoes would dry without growing mildew. The fans did a great job, RL was impressed.

Kids, what you guys do in Costa Rica? We got to play a lot of ipads!!!! The kids are not allowed to play multiplayer video games when they wake up in the morning because somehow they always end up getting in a fight. They wake up early, and they can watch videos on Netflix and whatnot until much later in the day.

Alright, time for lunch. Time to leave the apartment and explore San Jose for one last day.

To get to central San Jose, we cross through Morazan Park.

PL wanted CL to lift her up to match the height of the wings. It…didn’t work.

PL’s turn to lift up CL. It also….didn’t work.

KL’s turn to lift up RL…it kinda worked.

OK, must not lose focus. We need to get lunch.

Lunch spot. It’s a chain, but fine by me. Never eaten at a Costa Rican chain before. Reminds me of Chipotle somehow.

They didn’t speak much English here, but they did have a digital menu in English so we had no trouble ordering food. The corn here tastes starchy and not so sweet, much like the white corn in Taiwan. Yum.

Well, I’ll try to Pilsen beer that the server yesterday spoke so highly of. Honestly…I doubt most people could tell the two apart unless they drank them side by side with Imperial.

When they said buttered corn, they meant BUTTERED corn. It’s just dripping liquid butter.

There’s gotta be something for everyone here.

They are known for their roast chicken here I believe. It’s pretty good, but I’ve also had delicious roast chicken from HEB before.

Just look at all that butter!

Cute.

Still a butt.

RL points. This photo is here only for the purpose of showing that RL also points.

Plaza de la Cultura. This is the town center of San Jose I’d say. That building straight ahead is the Gran Hotel Costa Rica by Hilton, and was where I had originally booked two connecting rooms for. Again, it was like 5x the price of our airbnb stay so I finally changed room when I found out that airbnb was so much cheaper here. Now that we are here at this busy square, we are glad that we didn’t stay here as our base. Just too crowded.

The girls were fascinated by the flocks of pigeons. Especially CL who really wanted to walk into the pigeons and have them part before her. I told her no since I didn’t want the birds to take flight and bug other people or poop on us.

Central Ave. Cool, it’s a pedestrian walkway. That’ll be easier on us since we can spread out a little vs. on a narrow sidewalk.

Look at me holding my son’s hand. It looks sweet here.

Shiny nipples. I’d totally take a photo with it but the old lady was panhandling money there. This is the first time we’ve seen beggars in Costa Rica.

And this is where we are visiting, Central Market.

Hoping to look around and find souvenirs for the kids. I also wanna just check out what the market looks like.

I love these old school market stalls.

If not for the kids, I would have totally eaten at one of these stalls. I think between having to police the children in a crowded market, and a probably slightly higher potential from getting food borne illness, it just didn’t seem worth it. But sitting here with RL eating street food, drinking a beer and people watching in the market, that sounds amazing.

Lots of souvenir shops around here. A little surprised, because we saw essentially zero tourists other than us here. Are there that much more tourists during the high season, even if those tourists are mostly just ones overnighting in San Jose before flying out?

One of the Costa Rican pour over coffee holder thingy.

Tamales!!! Finally saw them for sale. Our housekeeper introduced Costa Rican tamales to us in Austin. I thought I’d come here and find them everywhere in restaurants, but that hasn’t been the case at all. Too bad it’s our last night, I would have bought some and eaten them.

A pet store.

They’ve got puppies for sale there. Reminds me of Asian pet shops. I bet this doesn’t meet PETA standards.

I love this plant. This is right across the walkway from the pet store. You can get your animal pets and planet pets right next to each other. Cricket, find me this plant and buy me one please.

I kinda want one, and for I think it was $30, not super expensive. But I didn’t want to support people to keep catching butterflies just to kill them and sell them. I do have a heart, but only for certain things.

Too many choices, and they can’t decide.

I love these old school true markets where it’s just where people shop for their daily needs.

Man, want to eat at one of these.

Alright kids, we’ve gone full circle in the market, it’s time to pick something!

Finally selected their knick knacks.

Now we go back the way we came.

Back to Plaza de la Cultura. We are here to visit the Pre Columbian Gold Museum.

The National Theater.

The Gold museum is actually beneath the plaza. Did that expect that.

Kids have a lot of energy today. But I guess they do everyday.

Look at Little KL already hyper. I hope he stays calm in the museum.

Like every museum we’ve visited in San Jose, no line.

We had to stow our backpack, I picked this one.

I think this is for the Numismatic museum, but it’s currently closed right now.

I think this building is really cool though. Brutalist can be cool.

Those trashcans are all down there to catch drips of water from the ceiling on this part of the museum. I guess in a country where it rains this much, can’t avoid all leaks.

Look at those giant vault doors!!! It’s as if it’s a bank back there. I guess it’s a gold museum so they are trying to protect gold. So this door is super strong, but how about the other doors? This door isn’t the only way in and out of this room.

I do appreciate that they specifically have things here that you can touch. Kids were really into that.

Yeah kids, you can’t understand Spanish.

To be continued at San Jose Day 4 Part 2.