One of the main impressions I've gotten from the city is that it is a lot like other cities. There are a lot of things here that are incredibly American, including stores advertising American clothing, a lot of music from the US, and advertisements. There are many things that make San Jose different, one of which is a general feeling of being more at ease and relaxed.Today I visited the Museo de Jade, which has the largest collection of jade in the Americas. It was nice to get some information and connect a bit with the history of the country. Here are some of the things that I saw:
There were a lot of these shoe-horn looking things. I think they may have been axe-heads.
There were a lot of these shoe-horn looking things. I think they may have been axe-heads.
This dude struck me as looking a lot like a viking.
Phalluses! Wooooo!
He showed me around the city and also took a picture of my in front of the Teatro Nacional. 
Also got some amazing coffee and saw some awesome parts of the city. I feel like I got much more of a sense of the entire city. There are a lot of really great murals all over the city and a lot of the grafitti is very beautiful as well
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The second mural depicts a destroyed polluted world of death then turning into a happy, green recycled world with smiling squirrels and such. Very nice.
Tomorrow I have a tour scheduled to the Arenal volcano and some hot springs, so should have more jungle-y pictures. I will also have to dedicate an entire post just to flowers at this point.
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