Who doesn’t love the weekend?  Of course everyone, everywhere, does.  There was even that awful 70’s movie  (you know, the one with disco queen Donna Summer) entitled, Thank God it’s Friday!  But there is something really special about a Costa Rican weekend.  The sun always seems to shine a little brighter, especially on SUN-day.  Pueblos always seem to have special events (“ferias” in Spanish) on the weekends.  There will be music, lots of home-cooked goodies, arts and crafts, rides for the kids, and so forth.  Or the weekends are just a great time to hop into the car and get lost in the mountains, or maybe go to the beach.  But the thing that I like most is that the weekends offer a chance to just sit back, relax and catch one’s breath after a hectic week.  I have my little secret places I like to go on the weekends.  Places like Puriscal, a small pueblo located in the mountains not too far from Cuidad Colón. There you can sample some of Costa Rica’s best chicharrones with a cold Imperial and look out at the majestic mountains, or just go to the park and hang out with the locals.  There are so many places you can go to escape and rejuvenate the soul.  All the frantic activity that marks the weekdays just seems to ratchet-down a notch or two.  For me, being in the travel business with customers arriving on any given day, including the weekends, means that I am never completely free.  Nevertheless I still love my Costa Rican weekends.  As I sit here this Saturday morning writing this post after an extremely hectic and stressful Christmas week, I am so grateful for the opportunity to relax and reflect, even for a fleeting moment, before getting back into the fight.  The weekends are a great opportunity to take the gloves off, or throw your weapons down, and have at least a few moments of peace.  We all need our weekends.  The beauty and serenity of Costa Rica makes that peace seem all the more, well, peaceful.  In life there are always things to be grateful for…if we have the awareness to look for them.  I am grateful that no matter how tough it gets, I can always look forward to my Costa Rican weekends.

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