I'm not going to lie, I feel like a fraud right now giving this advice, but, you know, it's worked for me in the past.

Just not this week.

Just not right now, necessarily.

We picked a really good week to schedule this episode.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Finding Mr. Right, the podcast. I am Allie Jackson.

And I'm Erica Spiric co-host. Oops, I forgot. I did not say that. Sorry. There you go.

Bye, bad. I can hop right in. I'm Allie Jackson. I'm Erica Spiro. Hi. Our voices sound similar to some of you, but we are different people.

Oh, man.

Apparently I'm still on Costa Rica time.

Yeah.

Hello.

Welcome back.

Welcome back to the U.S.

How was the trip?

Oh, it was amazing.

It was so magical. I think the only way, like the best way to describe it.

So Costa Rica has this mantra, Pura Vita, like pure life. And I didn't realize until going there how much it actually permeates like everything they do.

Like they say it all the time, but it's also just

everywhere. Like it just feels like everyone there is just so grateful for their life and like so

happy with what they're doing. Like every guide that we had, every bartender that we had,

they're all like, yeah, this is amazing.

I get to do this every day. Like, it just was such an uplifting place to be. Oh, I love that. I can see why your parents loved it, too. Oh, my God. Yeah. And my mom said the same thing about it before I went that she's like, you're just going to be so happy while you're there. Like, it's just the happiest place. And she was right. Yeah. And also just like all the greenery, the scenery. Oh, just right in the middle of the freshest air. Out of control, pretty. We saw the coolest stuff. We saw sloths. We saw macaws. Some of the groups saw a toucan. I unfortunately did not

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