Beach!

This morning, we left Monteverde. We left going down that one same road out, and unfortunately for us, they had shut that road down. So we just had to sit there on the mountain until they opened it back up again, about an hour and a half later. Oy. So we finally got out of that road and onto paved roads, and all of a sudden, the road was closed again. We then learned, down here was some sort of bike race, so they closed the road down for that. Great. Luckily for us, there was a coconut stand next to us on the road. We bought some coconuts, which they promptly opened for us with a machete and stuck a straw in to drink the sweet juice.

Y'all, coconut milk is gross. Did not like. Was not refreshed. But anyway. Finally they opened the road back up, and off we went. We stopped at this sign for a pic. 

Then we stopped in Jaco. There was a beach there, and we wanted to at least see the beach once while we were in Costa Rica, since it is a tropical, beachy place. 

 It was lovely. The water was so warm, and we stayed in as long as we could until we had to leave. Unfortunately, the hour drive back to San Juan (where our flight is leaving at 6:55 tomorrow morning) took about 3 hours due to garbage traffic. But we finally made it and are ready to go home. The trip was too short, but very awesome, and I am ready to go home. Being in foreign countries makes me so homesick so fast!

Monteverde

You guys, Monteverde is lovely. Was it hard to sleep with this wind? Yes. But, we still tried. The next morning, we set out to the "Cloud Forest". What this means is basically, the mountain we were in was so high we were pretty much even with the clouds. It was super windy still (apparently this is the windy season, I googled it) but it was lovely, it kept it from being too hot. It only took us about an hour to get to the top.

 Here's the view from the top, very nice

 This is us, with Steve, Adam's co-school-worker-guy. Unfortunately his family couldn't come, but we had a great time still.

There was a waterfall near the end of the hike, it was so lovely. We couldn't get in the water at all, but it was still nice.

After the hike, we went zip-lining, and went to the longest zip line in Latin/Central America. There was one that we went on that was 2 kilometers long! We did that one Superman style, on stomachs with arms out. It was amazing. I finished that by doing a sort of bungee-jumping thing called Mega Tarzan Jump, which you just straight up jump out of a 75-meter tall building, and just fall until your harness catches you, about 40 meters down. It was TERRIFYING but so amazing! I wish I had a picture or something of it, but alas, no phones! But it was the greatest thing ever.