Sunday:
Spanish Level: At the hotel Mawamba there was a little area for red eyed tree frogs. A tico, Eric, took care of the pools and the frogs and their pond as well. Amazing how good my spanish can get when some tico guy is flirting with me!!!
The hotel reminded me of being at Girl Scout camp only with private rooms. There were long cabins with wide, long front porches and 4 rooms in each cabin, no A/C, which was fine this week but I could imagine it gets HOT there other times in the year. The hotel had beautiful grounds, a restaurant, gift shop, two pools, about 10 hamocks, rocking chairs and about 40 yards worth of docks and boats in front complete with rain gear and boots for guests use. Mom, this was your ideal place on the river!!!
We got up very early for a tour of the national park in an open motor boat. The tour was wonderful, our boat driver had GREAT eyes for spotting wild life and our guide was telling us all about the animals and plants. He could make all sorts of bird calls and he could make a howler monkey noises too. Hearing the Howler monkeys (Congos) in the trees was really awesome. You can hear them for 100`s of yards away, the sounds of the canals and the jungle were awesome. There were a lot of birds. I got to see several toucans, two of the 6 types in Costa Rica but they were all in flight or far into the trees. I also got to see the 4th and final type of monkeys in Costa Rica, Spider Monkeys. I was really excited about this. We also saw these aligator things that are called Caymans and a few otters and a BIG blue butterfly. The jungle was great. We came back for breakfast and after that it was time to head back to San Jose.
The night before, everyone on the trip had dinner together (a couple from mexico, our guide, a single mom and her 10 year old son and man from San Jose). At dinner the single mom (who has the same BIG blue butterfly and a long vine tatto wraped around one of her legs) was telling me about this guy Eric who takes care of the Red Eye Tree Frogs at the hotel. Well before I headed back to San Jose I wanted to see them, so I went over to talk to him. The frogs were awesome. He took one and put it on my shoulder and took some pictures (i think he was more interested in my boobs than the frog but the pictures are good). Anyway he liked talking to me so I got to practice my spanish a lot with him because he didnt know much english. I think if I had asked him to marry me and come to the US he would have said YES on the spot. Its times like these your glad you have to get on the boat in 15 minutes to go home...
The ride back to San Jose was painfully long and bumpy. I need a masage after my masage. The only good things about the ride back to San Jose were: lunch, passing back through the large rain forrest just east of San Jose and getting to see the Saprissa (the #1 Cosa Rican football team) stadium. I miss football! American football that is. WAR EAGLE!
Spanish Level: At the hotel Mawamba there was a little area for red eyed tree frogs. A tico, Eric, took care of the pools and the frogs and their pond as well. Amazing how good my spanish can get when some tico guy is flirting with me!!!
The hotel reminded me of being at Girl Scout camp only with private rooms. There were long cabins with wide, long front porches and 4 rooms in each cabin, no A/C, which was fine this week but I could imagine it gets HOT there other times in the year. The hotel had beautiful grounds, a restaurant, gift shop, two pools, about 10 hamocks, rocking chairs and about 40 yards worth of docks and boats in front complete with rain gear and boots for guests use. Mom, this was your ideal place on the river!!!
We got up very early for a tour of the national park in an open motor boat. The tour was wonderful, our boat driver had GREAT eyes for spotting wild life and our guide was telling us all about the animals and plants. He could make all sorts of bird calls and he could make a howler monkey noises too. Hearing the Howler monkeys (Congos) in the trees was really awesome. You can hear them for 100`s of yards away, the sounds of the canals and the jungle were awesome. There were a lot of birds. I got to see several toucans, two of the 6 types in Costa Rica but they were all in flight or far into the trees. I also got to see the 4th and final type of monkeys in Costa Rica, Spider Monkeys. I was really excited about this. We also saw these aligator things that are called Caymans and a few otters and a BIG blue butterfly. The jungle was great. We came back for breakfast and after that it was time to head back to San Jose.
The night before, everyone on the trip had dinner together (a couple from mexico, our guide, a single mom and her 10 year old son and man from San Jose). At dinner the single mom (who has the same BIG blue butterfly and a long vine tatto wraped around one of her legs) was telling me about this guy Eric who takes care of the Red Eye Tree Frogs at the hotel. Well before I headed back to San Jose I wanted to see them, so I went over to talk to him. The frogs were awesome. He took one and put it on my shoulder and took some pictures (i think he was more interested in my boobs than the frog but the pictures are good). Anyway he liked talking to me so I got to practice my spanish a lot with him because he didnt know much english. I think if I had asked him to marry me and come to the US he would have said YES on the spot. Its times like these your glad you have to get on the boat in 15 minutes to go home...
The ride back to San Jose was painfully long and bumpy. I need a masage after my masage. The only good things about the ride back to San Jose were: lunch, passing back through the large rain forrest just east of San Jose and getting to see the Saprissa (the #1 Cosa Rican football team) stadium. I miss football! American football that is. WAR EAGLE!
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