Costa Rica, baby!!!

I loved Costa Rica. It was beautiful, but dirty and full of things that I don't particuarly like- like My pictures are all sorts out of order, but you will get the picture...

Brendy had a hard time with all the driving. She kept getting motion sick so she took lots of dramamene.....luckily for everyone else, she was completely stoned when on it. She has NO recollection of this picture. For those of you who don't know her, she is not a touchy person. We were waiting for the ferry to take us over to Montezuma in Puntarenas (the nastiest, worst place in all of Costa Rica) and she saw some sort of nautical thing that looked like a guillotine, so she grabbed my hand and made me look at it. So funny.
This is a mono (monkey) of the spider persuasion. We were in Monteverde going through the canopy tour which involved a bunch of suspended bridges in the rainforest. Amazing. You can see the baby mono peeking its head out to say "hello!"

It was torture being here. Poor me.
This is the pool from the bungalo that we stayed at in Montezuma. We would spend the day at the beach and then come back to the hotel and swim for a long long time....and use it to rinse off the sand...

This is a kawate. Its like a racoon. We were on the beach in Manuel Antonio National Forrest and Claire was tempting this guy with a cliff bar to get him closer. He ran up and grabbed it pretty much out of her hand. We had to watch our stuff really closely so things wouldn't get stolen- not from people, but from the animals.

This is a hike to a waterfall in Monteverde. Monteverde is not close to the beach, but in what they call the cloud forrest. As all of you know, I HATE hiking, but it was ok here. It was so beautiful and the end was the best payoff of any hike. I won't be doing it again anytime soon, but the waterfall was probably my favorite.

This is in the rainforrest during the canopy tour. I think I was being a raptor.....I think I thought it looked like Jurassic Park. I am that special.

This is the second waterfall that we went to in Montezuma. It is normally crystal clear, but it had been raining, so it was muddy. We got to jump off of this one. It was really fun!

Kathy went a little crazy...she kept saying "Ay, un mono en mis cosas!" which means "there's a monkey in my things!" This is on the airplane on the way home and her monkey just kept peeping up to say hello! Es muy loca!

On the way home, our flight left really early so we didn't want to get a hotel, so we spent the night on the floor of the airport. Miserable and cold. And then I got a NASTY ear infection. Love it.

This is a fruit stand that we stopped at on the way back to San Jose when we were headed home. The men working there were so so so sweet. They practically gave me a whole mango the size of my head to eat. They just kept cutting them up and giving them to us. So nice and delicious!

This is on the boat ride to Isla Tortuga. My hair is awesome. It looked like this the whole time. I am prettier in the desert- no tropics for me....

This little girl just kept playing with me on the ferry over to Montezuma. Her name was Maria and she didn't speak a word of English. We obviously switched sunglasses.

Women at work!!!! Getting ready to head out on the zipline in Monteverde!

These are known as glass ferns because when anything is behind it, the color changes due to its transparency. These are all over the rainforrest.

More of the canopy tour in Monteverde.

Here is the actual waterfall in Monteverde that we hiked to. It was so peaceful. It started pouring rain on the way home.

Cloud Forrest

We needed gas in Monteverde. This is the only gas station. It's a family with 5 liter jugs and a coke bottle funnel. Awesome.

Monkey and kawate on the beach at Manuel Antonio.

This is on the way to the beach in Manuel Antonio. We saw lots and lots of 3 toed sloths. Crazy!

Tortuga Island. Beautiful!!!

These are obviously just a few random pictures from my trip. I absolutely loved it. Seeing all of God's creatures and his beautiful landscape just made me want to travel more. I am working on going to Hawaii in October and London in the spring.