Post Build Fiascos

After heading back to the hotel for a shower, Wes and I went out for a couple beers with another volunteer Devin, who is designing the website for the San Ramon Affiliate of Habitat. We wandered the town for a few minutes until we saw an Imperial sign pop up, and we piled into the bar. We just happened to end up sitting next to a American Ex Navy guy…mid 60’s…drunk as a skunk and talking lots of trash, primarily about the Tico women. Devin had some great stories as he worked for a summer up in Denali Park in Alaska driving a visitors bus around the park, and hiking after work until midnight, cause the sun never sets. He also hitchhiked from California, down through the Baja Penninsula, over the bay to Mexico, down through Mexico into Central America and ended up here in Costa Rica. At this point The Ex Navy drunk offered to buy us all prostitutes, and head over to his apartment…we declined and settled on a round of beers.
After pounding the beers we got out of there as fast as we could, leaving the crazy guy in our rearview mirror. We headed back to the hotel and had dinner with the Ohio State Brigade, and then missed our bus back to San Jose. So we sat in the bus station, cause the next bus was supposed to come in 45 minutes, but it was 45 minutes late…so we finally go on the bus about 11 and didn’t get back to San Jose until after midnight. I was a little wary walking home, but had no problems as Maximos’ house is in a nice neighborhood. But when I was unlocking and re-locking the front gate the HUGE English Mastiff – Olympia…came out to greet me, as though I were an intruder. So that woke up everyone in the house, and necessitated the Mom – Rebecca getting out of bed to calm down the dog, and let me in the front door. I felt terrible, but they assured me it was ok, and that they were glad I got home safe. Needless to say, after a hard day lifting 120 lb bags of cement, digging 8 foot deep holes for septic systems, lifting buckets of cement above my head to hand to guys on the roof, and then dealing with the entire Bus fiasco, I hit the pillow and was out like the light.