Day 33 – Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a Car!

Let me first start out with saying, it has been eye opening not having a car for the last 3 ½ weeks. Let me also say it has been a great experience not having a car. We all take a simple thing like a car for granted. Depending on public transportation and taxies, really forces one to plan out the day. After some time, you almost get use to not having a car. Not having a car though, has kept us closer to home (within 30km). Some things would have actually been more expensive traveling via bus or taxi instead of renting a car. So we opted to wait on those type trips until this upcoming week.

Since we now had some wheels, Santa Teresa was in our sites. We had been to Mal Pais and Playa Carmen previously, but never went far enough to see Santa Teresa. Supposedly the Beverly Hills of the Nicoya Peninsula. Jen and Sam joined us for the ride. We took off around 10am and arrived at Playa Carmen a little before 11am. Everyone was hungry, so we hit the food court in the Playa Carmen shopping pavilion. Anna grabbed some grub from the Fish Market and the kids and I hit the Umi Sushi. Jen ended up getting a Spicy Tuna Roll from Umi and Sam got a Falafel from a greek place.

Getting ready for dinner at Mary's in Mal Pais.

After lunch we went over to the Gelato place and had some dessert. Unbelieveably good gelato. I could have had three or four more cups of the gelato. Everyone pretty much devour theirs quickly. When we were all done, we hit a couple of stores and got back in the car to head onto Santa Teresa. We drove down the road looking at all the different places waiting to find something grandioso. All we found was just another small town. Nothing like Beverly Hills though. We did pass one bar that was a Harley Davidson want to be. It looked pretty comical. What made it even funnier is that instead of motorcycles parked in front, it had bicycles.

Art by Olivia Schiffers. On the beach of Playa Carmen, Costa Rica.

We headed back to Playa Carmen and went down to the beach. When we first got there, three horses were roaming freely on the beach. You don’t see that every day. We ended up staying there for the remainder of the afternoon until 4pm at which time we headed to Mary’s. Mary’s is a restaurant we have heard about several times since arriving in Cabuya. We also walked by the restaurant a couple weeks prior only to find it closed for lunch. The owner of the restaurant picked us up in his truck on our walk that day and took us into Playa Carmen. We vowed that we would return the favor by coming in at eating at his establishment. The dinner there was delicious. We actually watched one of the cooks make my pizza. The kids really enjoyed watching him make the pizza. I  think by do so, it really made the pizza tasted better. 


The food slowly came out and we all filled our bellies. We stayed and chatted for a bit, while Thomas played pool with one of the local boys on what must be one of only a handful of pool tables in the area.Once our food comma kicked in and after a couple of yawns, we piled into the car and headed back home to Cabuya.

Wild horses roaming freely on the beach of Playa Carmen.

Pizza cook starting with a clean slate to create our pizza.