MONDAY
Today was the best!!! I had breakfast and they picked me up for the sea kayaking at 8. It was a couple from San Francisco, me and the guide. Our guide was wearing shorts that had a giant "Metallica" written across his butt! Yeah!!! We took our time going along the coast and seeing the beautiful coastline. We went about 2 miles to this beach with a jungle. We had like 40 minutes of free time to just relax and swim and enjoy how gorgeous it was!! He even showed us a sloth that was just chillin on a tree!! We paddled back and had lunch. It was cloudy for a bit but mostly sunny. I'm an idiot cause I put #30 lotion everywhere except my chest - duh!!!! So my chest is fried but the rest of me is fine! I can't even tell you how gorgeous it was!!! And you're just sitting on the water in the kayak, paddling and taking it all in!!
I got back around 1. I went to the main beach cause the national park is closed on Mondays and walked from one end to the other. It's really pretty too!!
Then I came back to my hotel for a swim & it started raining. I watched two monkeys in the palm trees by the pool. They were picking coconuts and biting into them. Super cute and RIGHT THERE!!! Then I showered, bought some aloe (I'm SO DUMB!!) and went to dinner at a restaurant my tour guide recommended called el avión, cause it's a gutted WWII plane with a bar inside and a restaurant around it. I sat overlooking the railing and watched the pacific ocean get dark (there kind of was no sunset cause it got dark and cloudy but I saw a gorgeous one on the drive in yesterday AND a rainbow!!!!!) El Avión was such a romantic place & I haven't met my Tico boyfriend yet, so I wished I was there with someone, but it was still gorgeous & super cool. I had fajitas. I keep eating at restaurants that don't have typical dishes for some reason!!
Tomorrow morning I am going into the National Park as soon as it opens (7am). I have a guided tour where they'll show me the park and lots of animals - like for 2 hrs - and then I have till 1 to enjoy the park on my own - there are beaches that you hike down to, I'm super excited cause everyone keeps telling me how gorgeous it is and how main beach (which is really pretty) seems ugly in comparison!!
I'm so happy I have waterproof camera & video. And today was the first full sunny day they've had in a while!!! YAY!!! it only rained for like 40 min today!!
Every 10 minutes today I felt like, wow, if this is all I did on this trip it would already be the best vacation. What an awesome way to celebrate thanksgiving - feeling overwhelmed with gratitude for this beautiful world God created for us!!!
Ok. My eyes hurt. I'm typing all this on my little iPhone.
Xoxoxxxoo
Pura Vida!
I got back around 1. I went to the main beach cause the national park is closed on Mondays and walked from one end to the other. It's really pretty too!!
Then I came back to my hotel for a swim & it started raining. I watched two monkeys in the palm trees by the pool. They were picking coconuts and biting into them. Super cute and RIGHT THERE!!! Then I showered, bought some aloe (I'm SO DUMB!!) and went to dinner at a restaurant my tour guide recommended called el avión, cause it's a gutted WWII plane with a bar inside and a restaurant around it. I sat overlooking the railing and watched the pacific ocean get dark (there kind of was no sunset cause it got dark and cloudy but I saw a gorgeous one on the drive in yesterday AND a rainbow!!!!!) El Avión was such a romantic place & I haven't met my Tico boyfriend yet, so I wished I was there with someone, but it was still gorgeous & super cool. I had fajitas. I keep eating at restaurants that don't have typical dishes for some reason!!
Tomorrow morning I am going into the National Park as soon as it opens (7am). I have a guided tour where they'll show me the park and lots of animals - like for 2 hrs - and then I have till 1 to enjoy the park on my own - there are beaches that you hike down to, I'm super excited cause everyone keeps telling me how gorgeous it is and how main beach (which is really pretty) seems ugly in comparison!!
I'm so happy I have waterproof camera & video. And today was the first full sunny day they've had in a while!!! YAY!!! it only rained for like 40 min today!!
Every 10 minutes today I felt like, wow, if this is all I did on this trip it would already be the best vacation. What an awesome way to celebrate thanksgiving - feeling overwhelmed with gratitude for this beautiful world God created for us!!!
Ok. My eyes hurt. I'm typing all this on my little iPhone.
Xoxoxxxoo
Pura Vida!
Jeannie
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TUESDAY
Wow!!!! Wow!!!! I am in love with Manuel Antonio!!!!!!! Today was super super awesome. I went to the national park & had a guide for 3 hours. We walked around the rain forest and he told us about the animals and the plants. He walked around with this telescope thingy and when he spotted stuff, we could look through and see it in detail. The most common things were the three clawed sloths (they are NOT monkeys - they come from the bear family) they are super lazy and slow and stay on the same tree branch all day! There were also two clawed sloths, they're a little faster :)
As we were walking around, the most gorgeous butterflies would pass by - they were breathtaking!! We also saw frogs, lizzards, iguanas, bats, crabs, birds ... It was just awesome!!! There are also gorgeous beaches - white sand, darker grayish sand, with waves, with no waves. There's a ton of white faced monkeys - super smart suckers on the beaches waiting to steal your food!! One stole my granola bar!! There were also racoons trying to steal food.
After the tour, I took a hike up to a lookout point. It was this tail through the rain forest and most of the time I was just walking through alone - it was so peaceful!!! I didn't know how long it would take cause people I asked said 45 to 2 hours. So I practically ran it! Great hour long hike though the rain forest. There were a couple of times I thought of the rain forest café - ha ha!!! I saw some animal but no clue what it was. It hopped like a rabit but was the size of a racoon.
The rest of the time I went back to one of the beaches I thought was the prettiest & went swimming & body surfing!! I did NOT wanna leave. It started raining and it was just as pretty with rain!!
The hotel people were super nice and let me stay 1 1/2 hrs past check out so I ran back & showered & got picked up for my ride to Monteverde (4 hrs in a van).
I definitely wanna go back to Manuel Antonio. The park had a bunch of trails closed off cause the hurricane storms from 2 weeks ago messed them up. I would not have had time to go on all of them - so I was secretly glad they were closed so I didn't feel like I was missing out - and ya always have to leave reasons to come back!!
I'm in Monteverde now. The last 25 km of that ride were so intense!!! It was pretty dark, so I couldn't really see but we are on the brim of these super tall mountains on a muddy, full of pot holes dirt road that the driver maneuvered like he was playing frogger, getting 2 inches from the side of the road to miss rocks and holes. I don't usually get nervous but this one time he had to back up to let a truck through and it felt like we were gonna slip right off!!! Took my breath away like Tatsu @ Magic Mountain does!!!! So it was a pretty fun 4 hour drive ;)
Its cold here. And windy. We are at the tops of the mountains - right next to a Cloud Forest where I'm doing my zip-line tomorrow. It must be gorgeous but I don't know cause it's DARK!!
Pura Vida!!!
As we were walking around, the most gorgeous butterflies would pass by - they were breathtaking!! We also saw frogs, lizzards, iguanas, bats, crabs, birds ... It was just awesome!!! There are also gorgeous beaches - white sand, darker grayish sand, with waves, with no waves. There's a ton of white faced monkeys - super smart suckers on the beaches waiting to steal your food!! One stole my granola bar!! There were also racoons trying to steal food.
After the tour, I took a hike up to a lookout point. It was this tail through the rain forest and most of the time I was just walking through alone - it was so peaceful!!! I didn't know how long it would take cause people I asked said 45 to 2 hours. So I practically ran it! Great hour long hike though the rain forest. There were a couple of times I thought of the rain forest café - ha ha!!! I saw some animal but no clue what it was. It hopped like a rabit but was the size of a racoon.
The rest of the time I went back to one of the beaches I thought was the prettiest & went swimming & body surfing!! I did NOT wanna leave. It started raining and it was just as pretty with rain!!
The hotel people were super nice and let me stay 1 1/2 hrs past check out so I ran back & showered & got picked up for my ride to Monteverde (4 hrs in a van).
I definitely wanna go back to Manuel Antonio. The park had a bunch of trails closed off cause the hurricane storms from 2 weeks ago messed them up. I would not have had time to go on all of them - so I was secretly glad they were closed so I didn't feel like I was missing out - and ya always have to leave reasons to come back!!
I'm in Monteverde now. The last 25 km of that ride were so intense!!! It was pretty dark, so I couldn't really see but we are on the brim of these super tall mountains on a muddy, full of pot holes dirt road that the driver maneuvered like he was playing frogger, getting 2 inches from the side of the road to miss rocks and holes. I don't usually get nervous but this one time he had to back up to let a truck through and it felt like we were gonna slip right off!!! Took my breath away like Tatsu @ Magic Mountain does!!!! So it was a pretty fun 4 hour drive ;)
Its cold here. And windy. We are at the tops of the mountains - right next to a Cloud Forest where I'm doing my zip-line tomorrow. It must be gorgeous but I don't know cause it's DARK!!
Pura Vida!!!
WOW, THAT BEACH IS BEAUTIFUL!
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