Saturday, April 11, 2009

Costa Rica 2009


BEST OF COSTA RICA
---Beach House!!
---Lush Greenery, Blue Ocean
---Monkeys and Sloths
---Black Sand Beach (all to ourselves)
---Casadas (tender chicken, beans and rice, cabbage salad)


WORST OF COSTA RICA
---Taxi Rides/Bus Rides
---Sand Rub Blisters
---Mosquito Bites ( 53 on Wendy, nobody else got touched)
---Sweaty all the time
Never in my life have I been on a vacation and thought "I wouldn't mind just going back to the hotel to relax. Well, this time our hotel was a 3 bedroom beach house with a huge open-air deck , hammocks and comfy lounge chairs. What a great place to just hang out.


We spent every evening hanging out and talking on the deck at the beach house.
Every morning we cut up fresh fruit, cooked fresh brown eggs and sat at the open-
air breakfast table.



This is the beach right in front of our house, 50 yds. away


Most days we walked into Puerto Viejo along this beautiful black sand beach



One of the National Reserves in Costa Rica had scenic rock formations formed
by the pounding of the surf


The lush jungle and the Caribbean Sea were often separated by just a small beach
of sand

White faced capuchin monkeys climbed the trees nearby, some even venturing
down onto the path

At the Sloth Sanctuary we saw these elusive, hairy creatures up close. This is a baby sloth. We also saw tiny infant sloths and some big, long-armed adult sloths.
These are the strangest creatures I've ever seen!


The weirdest thing we saw were these crazy sand covered creatures on the beach in front of our house.

2 comments:

Nanette said...

Wow, that sounds so incredible! Can't wait to see all of your pictures!

Ed and Susan said...

The pictures are great. Thanks for the CD's finally loading them on to our computer (Picasa) Looking at the them helps us imagine we're right there with you.