One of my good friends I met here at Whitworth South, Kata, has a lovely tradition she brings from Wheaton. This tradition is a day of things Never Been Done.
The title really says it all. It is a day in which, mostly spur of the moment, you do thing you have never done before.
This year, she was kind enough to let me participate in the tradition!
To start the day off right, we decided to get the Micky-D's breakfast special: scrambled eggs, gallo pinto, and platanos maduros. Breakfast of champions. And something never been done. We had never eating gallo pinto at McDonald's.
FYI: Gallo pinto is the ever popular rice-and-beans combo here (black beans) that is super common for breakfast. And platanos maduros are ripe plantains (as opposed to the starchy, usually served salty, green version) fried and slightly sweet. Delish!
And that was the end of our planned "Never Been Done" activities. But while at McDonald's, we ran across another. Until this day, none of us had seen the golden arches on jeans. Now we have.
FYI: Gallo pinto is the ever popular rice-and-beans combo here (black beans) that is super common for breakfast. And platanos maduros are ripe plantains (as opposed to the starchy, usually served salty, green version) fried and slightly sweet. Delish!
After finishing our super classy breakfast, we decided to leave our mark on the city of Heredia. In the form of thumbprints on a wet part of the sidewalk. Also NBD.
After wandering around and shopping a bit (thrift shopping in Central America was another NBD thing for me) Hollie decided to get a piercing. Gettin' crazy now, huh!?
She had actually been thinking about getting the top cartilage pierced for a while, so it wasn't entirely spontaneous. But it was a very new experience in the the piercer did not use a piercing gun. Apparently "Pistols are for amateurs." Or at least that is what the sign said. The sign that Kata and I saw, but Hollie did not. I wish I had a picture of the look on her face when the (very pierced and tattooed) man took out the five inch needle and asked if she was ready. She did a great job, though, and didn't even make a noise while he pulled the needle all the way through. Hollie says it was pretty painful, but it looks cute!
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