Waterfall - man this place is so touristy (La Fortuna) and no one walks around here and taxis to everywhere are expensive. so we hiked 3 miles from our hotel to this beautiful waterfall, La Catarata, which you had to pay $6 to get in (lame) but it WAS amazing. Then hiked 3 back, we're getting some great exercise out here...we are loving it! Missy will be in good condition for her hike back in GA.
Volcano - the night before we went to Volcan Arenal for a $30 taxi at night and got to see it spurt out lava once from kinda far away, it was cloudy though and not too great.
Dessert - Missy and I have been eating totally healthy, fresh stuff and avoiding sweets for the most part. Everytime we talk about getting something sweet, the want dies down after dinner and we just don't get it...it's been pretty cool. We've only had a few sweets out here (quite an accomplishment for both who are used to sweets every night, thank you very much!)
Where to next? - in a hour (8:30am) we're heading out in a Jeep to do some offroading to get to a boat that will take us across a lake to another waiting Jeep that will take us to Monteverde, where the cloud forest is. This is where we will probably spend the last leg with Missy and Dustin will meet us. It is kind of weird because we saved the most traveled/touristy areas for last, so Missy and I are trying to find remoteness in all of it...I think we will...
So we just didn't want you thinking that this was a flawlessly perfect trip, just wanted to let you in on the subtleties of traveling I suppose...here are some not-so-American inconveniences...look, we're not complaining ok....this is just...different here.... haha, here we go:
~natural temp water, which at night is pretty "refreshing" if you will, but for the most part very nice
~buses: can be very crowded, when all the seats fill up, people just stand in the aisles and lean all over you...this is just accepted conduct
~buses: Missy's legs are TOO LONG, she has to literally wedge her knees behind the seat in front of her to sit straight in...you should see when they lean their seat back, pretty miserable
~sand fleas: the first night on turtle night-patrol we weren't aware of the tenacity of the sand fleas...I laid in the sand and allowed, literally, at least 30 bites to happen on my bum before this lady told us that light pinching we were feeling were sand fleas...Missy's legs as well were feasted upon
~mosquitoes: Missy was their favorite meal in all of Parismina, we walked down this jungle path with stagnant air (a very BAD sign) and she was wearing a tanktop (aka easy access to her delicious back) and she got like 50 bites on her back, and probably about 100+ bites all over her between the two insects
~beds/mattresses/pillows: horrible...we have had back issues this whole trip due to these beds...no support whatsoever, it is like sleeping on cardboard...and the stuffing in ALL the pillows have collected into clumps of stuffing and are probably 10 yrs old and your head just falls right through to the cardboard bed...I was soooo stiff every morning. It has been a relief to be here at this ritzy hostel though, the mattresses are EXCELLENT and my back is 100% again!!! hooray!
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