Costa Rica Family Trip - Day 4 (Part 4 of 4)

 

One last picture of the sunset before we headed back to town to try a new restaurant for the evening.  Gavin joined Gage just enjoying the peaceful sounds of the ocean and the dwindling sunlight.  Actually, not too long after this it was starting to get dark enough that we had to navigate the rocks and sand back using our cell phones as flashlights.

Tonight's dinner destination (Green Papaya) turned out to be a true gem in so many different ways.  Tara is big on first impressions when strolling up to a place and this place did not disappoint.  They had indoor seating and then some crazy, unique outdoor seating where the chairs are all suspended by ropes and you are open air with the trees, monkeys, and whatever else is going on along this dirt side road in front of the restaurant.  So, we were immediately hooked and elected to sit outside.  Here is a picture of the crew waiting for food.

We started conversing some with the waiter (and apparently the guy who owns the place) and it turns out he and his whole family used to live in Colorado (Highlands Ranch) of all places and got tired of the grind and just decided to sell everything and move down here to run this place and surf every day.  You can bet that Tara was fully invested in this story and full of questions!  Anyways, the people were amazing that ran the place, and it turns out the food was exceptional as well.  This is a picture of my enchiladas which were crazy good.  Everything was made scratch the day of and the flavors were awesome.  This was probably one of the top two places we ate the whole trip and I think we could have eaten here almost every night without objection.