Day 2

So after our zombie day it was time to get to work. There is so much to do there and we needed to figure out how much we could actually fit into this week. So we visited the tour office at our resort and did some research. The tours that we were interested in were surfing, rafting, deep sea fishing and a volcano/waterslide/jungle tour/horseback riding excursion. We hung out at the pool and did some asking around to find out what was best. In the end, we decided that we didn't want to mortgage the house in order to afford all these trips so we cut out rafting, since we already get to do that every year. We asked the tour dude if he could find someone to share the boat with us for deep sea fishing to save a little money there, too. He ended up finding a couple from Boston, Dawn and Rich, that were looking for fishing partners too, so we went to meet with them and make our plans. We really hit it off with them and ended up spending most of our week with them. For the remainder of that day, we took a shuttle into a little town called Playa del Coco for some shopping and exploring. It was kind of a cool place with shops selling jewelry, pottery and woodworks lining the street. You'll have to trust me on this one because I didn't take any pictures of the town, but this is the beach. Yeah, it was warm there.

While we were waiting in the hotel lobby for our shuttle we had some time to hone my wicked photography skills. And my subject was OH-SO-COOPERATIVE!
The next day was awesome! We took a tour through the jungle on zip lines. We even saw a toucan and a family of monkeys. So cute!

This Costa Rican jungle gangster was a little scary, though.

And this little wild pig was trying to get into the girls dressing room. Dirty old pig!

After the zip lines it was time for the world's longest waterslide. Or so they say, anyways. Again, no pictures here because it's kind of hard to take pictures when you're riding a waterslide. But take my word for it. It was long! It takes about 8 minutes to hike to the top of it, then about 1 1/2 minutes to ride it down.

Next on the agenda was horseback riding up to the hot springs. All the horses in our group insisted on walking VERY close together. We decided they must be Asian horses that are used to being crammed into small spaces.

When we got up there, we sat in a steam room, smeared hot volcanic mud all over our bodies and then let it dry in the sun. Then we washed it off and plunged into the hot springs. We started off with the hot ones, then slowly made our way into colder and colder ones.

After that we hopped on our bus for the ride back to our hotel. This little guy lives in a small town and loves to chase dogs. Someone kept him as a pet then turned him loose. So he's partly domesticated and might actually think he's a dog. We think he's cute.

This is the view on the way down. Someone on our bus had to stop to go potty, so we hopped out for some pictures. Hooray for small bladders!