**Oops! I wrote my final blog post months ago, but I guess I never posted it. But I can't not "finish" my blog, so here you go!!**
After my adventure to Puerto Viejo, it was nice to be back in Liberia, if also a little anti-climactic! Before I left for Puerto Viejo, I had almost completely packed up my entire room, so my drawers and closets were empty and my bags were sitting in a corner. I pretty much spent my last few days with my host family sulking/fighting off depression and finishing any Christmas shopping I needed to get done. Since my host family was heading up to Nicaragua for Christmas, Nieves was busy cooking TONS of tamales and arroz con pollo and other deliciousness! I was lucky enough to have a few tamales reserved for me and they were the BEST DAMN TAMALES I've EVER eaten. Nieves explained that they were Nicaraguan tamales, which means they have amazing/seasoned/uncooked meat (it cooks when it gets steamed so it's sooo juicy!), sauce, potatoes, onions, tomato, rice, peppers and deliciousness cooked into them. But it was really quite a production! The poor woman was slaving away in the kitchen for two and a half solid days to get everything ready for their trip and was exhausted by the time she left!
