When we arrived in Tamarindo the hotel was not ready for us to check in since we arrived at 11 am. We went and grabbed lunch in a mercadito which was a collection of many different restaurants in one area. It was super cute and the food was really good. I had an arepa for the first time, something similar to a pita filled with chicken avocado, and plantain. Fatima and I went and walked around the town and looked in all of the cute shops, she ended up buying a really cute top. I was skeptical that the waves were not going to be very good to surf on as in the morning the water was very calm. When we met back up with the group and went to the beach to go surfing, Fatima and I stayed on the beach as the waves and current were too strong, a complete 180 from this morning. Santiago lasted about 10 minutes battling the waves and Lauren almost ended up in the connecting river due to the current. We went back to the hotel and sat in the pool for a little while then went to our rooms that were finally ready. We all wanted to shower but quickly realized that we did not have towels and the front desk did not know when we were going to get them. We were finally able to get towels and take a shower, I was the only one who could figure out the hot water thankfully. The cold showers were really getting to me. We all went to dinner and then came back to the hotel as we had a very long drive the next day to La Fortuna.