dinner dates

dinner dates with your girl friends are the best.

my friend lindsey came home for a few days while i was here and we tried to squeeze in as much time in together as possible before she headed back to boston to start her new job (yay!). we spent a good three hours one night at our favorite greek restaurant enjoying some delicious greek food. we split some amazing tzatziki dip with pita and we both got a greek salad with a side of spanakopita. so good! we also may or may not have split a bottle of prosecco her dad gave us on the way out the door ...it happens!

do you have any favorite places to eat?

the people you meet

tuesday was my friend's birthday and she invited me to go out to dinner with her and a bunch of other students. i had the absolute pleasure of sitting next to an elderly woman who came to costa rica from norway to study spanish. we spent the majority of the night sharing stories about learning the spanish language, living in foreign countries, and traveling experiences. she had many more stories to share than i did (she worked for pan am! so cool!) but it was one of those conversations that just makes you go, wow.

i think that is one of the pleasures of living in another country. you meet so many different types of people from all over the world. and sharing stories with each other is such a great way to get to know the world just a little bit more. here's to the conversations that leave you with that itch to travel to just a few more places and meet a few new people.

oui oiu la crépe

last night we got crepes.

guys... this literally has been a year in the making.

i can remember when i first got here a year ago and saw this restaurant in the mall that was strictly crepes. crepes for breakfast, crepes for lunch, and crepes for dinner. who knew? clearly not us, because this was the first time we went!

so since there were so many choices we decided to split a dinner crepe and a dessert crepe. the first one, even though it may not look like it, was delicious. it has mushrooms, a little bit of cheese, and a white cream sauce. i would totally get it again.

then for dessert we had your typical strawberry, banana, chocolate crepe. and it was just as i suspected .. awesome.

it was the perfect way to start the week!