Dinner in La Fortuna

We drove down into La Fortuna for dinner... it is just east of Arenal Lodge and because it was raining, and I forgot my raincoat in Ocotal (I hate this!  I pack everything that everyone else needs and forget what I need!  UGH!!!)  we drove into the little town and thankfully found a poncho - you know the kind... a garbage sack with a 'hood' - in a little store right next to where we ate.

We stopped at a "Soda" which is a little restaurant - there are TONS of them in CR - and I ordered La Casado con pescado - the daily dish with fish and this is what I got!

Fish, rice and black beans, fried plantain, some kind of ground beef mixture in the middle - had like green beans and carrots in it... Yum!, yucca - it's the stuff with the chips stuck in it... tasted like au gratin potatoes to me!, some lettuce salad, and that purple stuff... it had hard boiled eggs and beets... not my favorite.

Dave had the buffet - it was basically everything that I had but no fish... he is more adventuresome in eating than I am...

The kids got una hamburguesa con papas fritas (hamburger and fries) and weren't thrilled.  They put mayo and ketchup and a slice of ham on their hamburgers... and "the bun tastes weird" is what Meg said... WHATEVER!!!  Their favorite part of the meal was the rice pudding that the waitress brought at the very end.

One of the most exciting parts of dinner was when we first sat down and I opened my menu to a tiny little gecko --- Meg and I couldn't decide if he was inside the menu or jumped down from the thatched roof!  It was funny and it ran into the flowers  you see behind Meg (above)... she tried to catch it but it was quick!

Then we just cruised around La Fortuna for a little while.  Neat little town square with beautiful flowers and a fountain.