Today we took a mini road trip to Cartago, Costa Rica-home of the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles and La Negrita. Apparently La Negrita is a stone that some girl found in a river one day and it just happened to look EXACTLY like the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus. So now every year on August 2nd (Helz's birthday-fyi) every devout Catholic in Costa Rica walks from their home to this Basilica to worship La Negrita and be healed. Don't worry though, the sacrifice is just to walk there. They get a ride home. It was very beautiful though and we thoroughly enojoyed our stop there.
La Basilica
All of us in front of the basilica including some random drunk guy that wanted to be in our picture..
Inside the basilica
La Negrita
After walking around the basilica for a while, we took a taxi up to El Sanatorio-at least that's what we think it's called. El Sanatorio used to be an insane asylum here in Costa Rica and is very secluded up in the mountains to keep the crazies away from the rest of the people. It hasn't been used for years though and is now supposedly haunted. Whether or not it's haunted we can't say, but it sure is creepy! We were able to walk around in there for a while and take some pictures so you can see for yourselves!
El Sanatorio
No Quiero Morir-I Don't Want to Die
Creepy, we know.
After our little road trip and school, we got some time to volunteer at the language school is San Jose. We went there to help Costa Ricans who are trying to learn English. It was really fun to speak English with the natives for a change and see that we're not the only ones who are struggling through this whole language learning thing. Thanks for joining us on our adventures. Stay tuned-there are more to come!
Lez n' Helz
Loved your trip and comentary Tuesday.
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