Costa Rica Report

Quick trip to Costa Rica with G. We flew down Monday and came back Friday.

Long Day 1
- This place is beautiful! Lush. Green. Flowers everywhere.
- Saw a sloth! Check that off my list! It was just chilling in a farmer's market we happened to stop at.
- Lunch and relaxing at hot springs at the base of Arenal Volcano. This is the life.
- Driving here is like driving in India.

Long Day 2
- Rafting on the Rio Pacuare! Not as intense as rafting the Nile, but the most beautiful rafting trip I have ever been on. Loved hearing G laugh up a storm (was his first whitewater rafting experience)!
- Yum dinner at this Latin fusion restaurant near the condo.

Long Day 3
- A day of hiking and boating to see animals: monkeys, birds, crocs and lots of insects. However, after growing up in the Northwest and going to Africa, the wilds here are a bit underwhelming. I have been spoiled.
- Yum dinner at this hole in the wall near our condo run by a Canadian guy (has lived in CR for about 30 years).

Trip Home
- Costa Rica National Men's Soccer Team on our flight! Playing in the CONCACAF Gold Cup here in the United States. Everyone and their mom was taking pictures with them at the airport in San Jose (passengers, security/police, airport staff...) and media and a motorcade were waiting for them in Dallas. So cool for this soccer fan!

Wanna see all our photos? See next post (have a good laugh at my inability to keep my mouth closed while rafting...).