So first, I got called out by my mom in my last post. I mistakenly said that Richard spoke no english... obviously he spoke no spanish. oh well. haha you are right though, mom, I am going to have a hard time adjusting to real life again.
So after traveling via bus from 7:30AM until 5:00PM, we arrived in Tamarindo two days ago. The Lonely Planet review of Tamarindo is beyond scathing.... pretty funny actually. "Fat American tourists lie around like beached whales, varying in color from shockingly pale to a bright pink shade of skin cancer... if you get tired of the city, just remember, costa rica is only a few kilometers away". But, we had heard the surf was good, we were outgrowing our time in Santa Teresa, so we decided to check it out.
When we arrived, I more-or-less treated dallas and luke to an incredible dinner at a nearby restaurant. We split an awesome bottle of white wine, i had roasted red snapper, dallas had mahi mahi with coconut glaze, and luke had some baller penne pasta with chicken and pesto. Incredible. We then split one of the most amazing chocolate brownies i've ever been a part of. booya. Then later that night, Dallas crashed but Luke and I went out to a club, where we had some other adventures that I don't feel comfortable writing about with my parents as confirmed readers ;). it was fun.
After that, though, yesterday was brutal. We woke up decently early and decided we wanted to try to hit this good beach we'd heard about called Playa Langosta. For whatever reason, we chose to walk barefoot on the gravel road, and it took us about 30 minutes and made our feet very sore. when we finally arrived, we found that there was not even one workable wave. what a waste of time. so, we walked back, got some lunch, and walked down to the Tamarindo River Mouth, which had some good waves. I had gotten so comfortable with my 7'10 board that I decided to try Dallas' 6'10. It was tricky, I'm going to go back to the 7'10 today. Anyways, we surfed out there from about 4 until the sun went down, then came back and met these two british guys named Dan and Pete. Oh yeah, while I was surfing, some kind of swimming creature bit my foot. I was bleeding for a while without knowing it, then I was really surprised when i looked down and saw a nice little chomp mark on my big toe.
anyways.... British people are hilarious.
We ended up drinking with Dan and Pete, hitting some clubs, generally having a good time, and basically wreaking havoc on the central room of the hotel. When you walk into the place we're staying, there is an indoor pool in the center. Then, the bedrooms are around the pool. When we left, pretty much everything inside was soaked. very fun. We may even go hang out and party at Dan's rugby club outside of London.
I'm still not sold as to how much I like Tamarindo, it is very touristy, which is both fun and fake at the same time. We'll see how long we stay here, i'd like to check out puerto viejo but the surf there is bad at this time of year so i may have trouble convincing the other dudes to go.
oh yeah, and some promised poker talk:
So let's take a guy like me. I can crush 2/4, and beat 3/6 and 5/10. I'm pretty confident I can beat 10/20 and 25/50, but I've run so terribly every time I've been up there that I'm not sure. Either way, I've comed up with a new bankroll management strategy.
Lets say I have like 18k online. I'm playing some 2/4-5/10, and I run it up to 2ok. Now, I withdraw 5k. So, real money terms, I am +5k for the month. Now, I am sitting on 15k online, and I can run that up as high as I can during the rest of the month. Then, at the start of the next month, I set up a new 5k withdrawal point. So lets say I start the next month with 24k. I might withdraw my 5k at 28k, leaving me with 23k online. You see how the bankroll still grows, but I'm now making 60k a year (not including taxes, but also not including extra money from coaching and withdrawals and whatever else). Anyways, its a plan i'm going to try, and we'll see how it goes.
and now back to life
i don't have too much more to add, i've been reading my face off... I think i've read 5 or 6 books in the last 5 or 6 days. the water in tamarindo is the warmest i've seen yet, so that's been nice. otherwise, we're just hanging out until we leave for europe in a week. haha wow life is so crazy
okay, gonna run, surfing soon, then big halloween parties tonight. we're goign to ask this mexican restaurant for sombreros and ponchos and other mexican garb, that'll be fun.
happy halloween
A
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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Sound like a blast !!! Wait where is the R rated commentary ??
==Alaska
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