My Baby's Back

So, when I last wrote I was in Santa Teresa and was getting some beach time in. The next day (monday) I set off to go to San Jose so that I could pick up Sam the next night from the airport. I got there, checked into a pretty cool Hostel called Pangea that has a couple cafes, free internet, a bar, and a club. I hung out with some college students I met there and had a loud evening, but at this place everyone was loud. Suffice it to say that it was not a quiet night's sleep, but I guess that's to be expected in the big city.

The next day I walked all over the city finding some cool jewelry, flowers, and misc stuff in preperation for her arrival. Later in the day I called her cousin who lives in town and met up with Sam's mom and sister who also happened to be in the country on vacation. Sam was fetched from the airport and out entourage was complete. We hung out with the fam for a little while before retiring for the night. The plan is to finish up the trip with a big group trip to some islands in Panama called Bocos del Torro so I figured that we should start our conjoined trip with a little solo time up near Arenal volcano. We left the next morning.

The trip up there was fairly long and hot in a cramped bus without AC but I was with Sam so I didn't care about any of that anymore. We got a cheap cabin to stay at and relaxed in town for the rest of the day. The next day was pretty eventful. We got up early and caught a bus to a canopy tour company called Mundo Adventura. Canopy tour involve glidings over great distances by means of steel cables and pulleys attached to your belt harness. It's really fun and helps you get over any fear of heights that you may have once had. Either that or you don't get over them and shell out $60 for nothing. In the picture of Sam here, you can see some of the lines that we rode over a waterfall. The longest one of the day was over a kilometer long anfd there were several that were nearly as long as that. After all that fun we visited an indian village that 3was transported there to sell tourists their handicrafts and also rode some marginaly malnourished horses over a dissapointingly short distance. All in all it was a kickass time. At the end we also got to visit a frog and butterfly habitat for some macro photo opportunities.

To top off the volcano trip we splurged on the second nights's lodgings and checked into the Los Lagos resort and spa. I don't have any great pictures of the place, but I have got a lot of great pics of the wildlife there. We saw a bunch of those lizards that can run across water... they're called Basalisks. This is a pic of one of them but there were also iguanas, turtles, crocodiles, and leaf cutter ants. That was a fun day made more fun by the beutiful hot springs we basked in later that night complete with waterslides and a pool bar that served drinks in carved out pineapples.

The next day, today, sucked in comparison. We went back to San Jose and did some inspired souvenier shopping. Tomorrow morning we go to the islands, but for now I'm getting kicked off the internet so I guess this post is over. cya!