When The Cover image is The Toughest Decision Of The Day - #fff #41

I only reason I mentioned those tacos just now is because of Bitcoin. The shells were green, like #crypto is today, but I don’t think they’re going be on the cover of this Hive account@foodfightfriday contender—not yet anyway. We left Jaco on Monday and will be here, in La Fortuna, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica until next week. We went for a nice one-legged walk that included crossing suspended bridges, I’m sure some of those would make a nice cover image too—decisions, decisions.

We found a dairy-free cheese cake at a local restaurante organico we stopped at, originally for a smoothie and a turmeric shot for Pura Vida, but this cake was rainbow colored, delicious looking and health conscientious all at the same time—we couldn’t help it! That would probably make a good cover image too. We did a “how its made,” chocolate style, tour yesterday. Hive account@puravidaville showed you here so I won’t use any of those pictures as my cover image.

The view from the gym is surprisingly nice, too, not sure if it’s cover image nice though. We won’t know about the farmers market until tomorrow but the daily fruit stands here are worthy of being a cover image—decisions, decisions.

I’ll just show you my day yesterday, minus the coffee and chocolate. First things first, a cover image, the view from the gym—no, wait! I think I should use the rainbow cake or the one of the coffee with the chocolate straw—danget! It’s settled, coffee—no, cake! I’m going with the cake, check this out. Raw cashew cheese, almond cheese and lavender cheesecake with an Oreo cookie crust and a sugary lemon spread, topped with cinnamon, pecans and almonds on a fancy plate with two spoons:

This is the #new view from the gym—it’s been raining since we got here so everything is extra green right now. Every city in Costa Rica is built around the local town church. First it’s the church, follow by a huge park in front of and around the church, and everything else is outside the park. Like the cover image view from the gym:

And our front yard, the “garden view” it’s called, another cover image. It’s two blocks from the church, bordered by a creek, where you’ll probably never see this guy again—a two foot long chameleon:

Did you see it? The only reason I knew it was there is because I watched it crawl up that grass hill, it was yellow, I thought it was a boa or something—I hate snakes! Once it stopped crawling, it turned green and black, I knew it was a chameleon. I got a cover image picture of it before I tried to get closer—it took off:

_{Can you see it without the arrows now?}

What about this hummingbird—see it? It’s a little easier to spot, it’s purple and green, pollinating the flower on the right side of the bush: <— my phone insisted on capitalizing “bush” right there, it just did it again actually, any idea why that is? 🤔 As I was saying... hummingbird:

I found this cool little coffee shop next to the gym with edible chocolate straws—I had two (straws). It’s called Cafeteria Vaca Purpura which means Purple Cow Cafeteria referring to chocolate. There’s a lot of chocolate and coffee in Costa Rica, we just learned yesterday the flower on a cacao plant, where the chocolate comes from, is purple—“purple cow.” They don’t have all of the multiple sized coffee cups in Costa Rica like they do in the states. There’s just two here, pequeña and grande, I got a grande cover image:

On my way back to the storage container we’re staying in until Monday, I saw a poster of people walking across a suspended bridge above the rain forest, it said Arenal Hanging Bridges. I got back to the container, took a shower and we took off. This is when I had the green tortillas, we stopped and had lunch at a Mexican joint before the 30 minute drive to the bridges.

Shrimp tacos, cover image, sin aguacate, sin queso, with lime wedges, rice and beans, bell peppers, onions, pico de gallo, house salsa, some cabbage and green, corn tortillas:

There was a local fruit stand next door where I got two more cover images. We got a few waters and apples for the backpack before we headed out.

Ok, one more stop, but that’s it and then we’re really going to the bridges. We had lunch, loaded up a few snacks, all we’re missing now is two of those coffees, the ones with chocolate straws. This time with to-go lids—“grande:”

Next stop: Arenal Hanging Bridges, this is what we saw: (all taken with a GoPro)

Like all days, it was good, now we’re hungry again. We stopped at a local soda for dinner before going back to the container. The local dish here is called a Casado, it means married, it’s a plate of rice and sometimes beans, a salad and a meat or vegetables. I usually get the fish, this time I had a casado vegetales. A soda is a little garage type building with a store front that looks like it’s still in the process of being converted into a restaurant/kitchen—they’re everywhere.

Casado vegatales, French fries, water, and a coke:

Thanks for hangin out with me again—happy Friday! Have a great weekend. Stop by food fight Discord and say hi.

Tuesday: