Sorry for the lack of updates lately but as you will see below....we have been suffering on the beach for the past couple of weeks. Trav and I finally took our first ever vacation and it was amazing. We spent 10 days in a house on the beach in Costa Rica. We really missed our kids but it was an awesome experience. We went with my sister and her husband, Matt and Heather and a couple of friends of ours from in Driggs, Cole and Lyndsay. We did everything from bushwacking in the rain forest to scuba diving with reef sharks....yikes!!!
We spend out first night in the city of San Jose in Costa Rica where we rented a car to drive 4 hours through the jungle to our house. San Jose has a population of nearly 3 million and is the dirtiest city we have ever seen. Prostitution is legal there so that was also interesting. Trav and Cole are tying down our luggage to the top of our SUV. This small pyramid on the roof of our car generously provided us so many crazy looks and laughs from the locals.
This is a sunset picture off of the patio from our house. The sunsets were absolutely beautiful on the horizon of the ocean.
Trav and I eating lunch in the famous Tortilla Flats restaurant on the beach of Dominical
We met a local girl named Wendy who kindly served as our local tour guide. She was so funny. We went bushwacking through the jungle to a local waterfall. She brought her machede because Costa Rica is home to many poisonous snakes and spiders that you need to move out of the way as you progress through the jungle. She didn't seem to be to worried about it but the Americans were scared to death.
A picture of the waterfalls that we hiked to. The picture doesn't really do it justice. The waterfalls were over 100' tall and the boys jumped from the cliffs in the middle.
Our exploring group.
A picture of the crew next to the pool at our house.
In front of our house. Everything is gated and barred in Costa Rica.
Getting ready for the zipline tours in the canopy of the rain forest. It was so hot hiking through the jungle. We saw two and three toed sloths, Tucans, termites, and lots of bugs.
Me on a zipline......cow-a-bunga!!!
Trav and I on some rocks on the beach.
We went scuba diving at an island called Cano Island which was an hours boat ride out in the middle of the ocean. We did two 40 minute dives at 50 feet where we saw 8' long White Tip sharks, Manta Rays, Eagle Rays, Moray Eels, Sea Turtles, and lots of other cool fish. It was really cool and really scary.
A beach shot of Cano Island. It was a beautiful place.
This is a beach shot of the beach in Dominical where we spent most of our time laying out and surfing. It was a great beach.