Hostel Providencia

Hey - Here's just a few pics of our hostel (following up on the last blog), which has awesome people running it and good people staying here with us....

Above the entrance doors to "Hostal Providencia" - our temporary home.

The lobby

The TV, computer, hang out room.

Five in the kitchen....oh, you can fit more if you try.

We are paying to have a private room and bath versus living in a bunk area. So, that is nice. The sheets are tied on...they come off as soon as you get into bed :).

This room does have a little space so that is nice. And, it actually has a TV with cable. There are three channels that show things in English with Spanish subtitles.

There is a window over the shower that has a bank of dirt outside it and there's no screen or glass. So, water drips from somewhere above and dirt falls into the shower. We woke up to this this morning.

This is the shower floor the dirt fell onto. The cleaning ladies took care of it quickly though. They were very sorry and sweet.

The view from the shower....there really aren't bars on the window...they are on something else outside. If we are lucky the water has about 1 minute of hot water. Maybe once we are in Africa this will feel like nothing....this is a great pre-third world country experience....very good for us in a variety of ways. I feel like a woose today, but I guess that is ok sometimes. There is a girl here who just finished the Peace Corp in Africa. She showed us pictures of the hut she lived in. It was actually looks nicer than this I think. At least cleaner....but...she didn't have any running water or toilet inside. Ah, ...........