Hey everyone! Right now I am in la fortuna and having a great time! There is free internet at the hotel so I figured I could update my blog enstead of having to wait until I got to an internet cafe. Anyways, la fortuna is the town closest to Volcan Arenal, one of the most active volcanoes and it´s really cool, right now I can look out of the window and see the volcano with smoke coming out!
However, this trip didn´t start out too great because when shannon and I got here on friday night it was pouring down rain and I was completely soaked. Also we stayed at this hostel with shared dorm rooms, meaning that there are 8 people, co-ed, in a tiny room with one bathroom and since everything was wet, the room smelled absolutley terrible!! We thought the trip was going to be really bad and uncomfortable... but we were definatley wrong!
Yesterday ended up being abosultley perfect because it started out by us going to this big waterfall, so we spent the entire morning just hiking, swimming, and enjoying how goregous it is. Then we booked a tour for the ngiht to go hiking, see the volcano and go to the hot springs. We ended up finding the cheapest one, which was $40, and that included dinner, which is a good deal for all of that. Anyways, it was absolutley amazing, on the hike I saw a ton of animals, like a sloth with a baby, toucans, monkeys, and lots of neat looking birds. After the hike, we went to watch the volcano and I saw it erupt and all this red lava come out of it.
However, that wasn´t even the best part... the hot srpings were fantastic! It was at this resort, so everything was pretty elaborate, but thats always nice to experience every now and then. There were a ton of pools (it says 25 on the brochure) and they all have different temperatures, but basically they are all really hot, so it´s liek you get to just relax in this huge hot tub! They have waterfalls, and waterslide, everything... I can´t even describe how relaxing it was and since there were so many pools, you could have a whoel oen to yourself and not even have to talk to people. lol! Okay well I have to check out soon and get on the bus back to san jose but I hope everyone had a good weekend and St Louis was fun too!! Let me know, love you!
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Grace.... "sloths, toucans, monkeys, and lots of neat looking birds"! I love it that you had the chance to see these animals in the wild. The relaxing hot springs will help you get through your classes this week! I am sorry your new rain coat does not keep out the Costa Rica rain! Buy one down there (or a dorky rain poncho) to keep yourself dry! We will talk soon! Love you...Mom and Dad
hey glad that it turned out to be an awesome weekend even though it started out rough. i def. want to see pics from the hot springs and volcanoes!
I just found out that the main newspaper in costa rica is www.nacion.com it is a great way to practice spanish and maybe you can bring up some news topics with your host fam.
keep updating!! :D love ya
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