La Fortuna / Volcun Arenal We packed up our gear and headed out of town towards La Fortuna, Laura wasn't feeling so well so we stopped in at a chicken restaurant and we all use the bathrooms. Except laura never came out of the bathroom, Montezuma's revenge had It's first target!!! We were a little worried about her but she didn't let it get the best of her I had a rest and fought it off. We made it to our hotel, Coloso deleted Arenal, in pretty good time. Had a ...

Cahuita national park beach day There was a little animal rescue center called "the tree of life" we visited in the morning for a couple hours. There were all sorts of monkeys birds butterflies deer and other rodent type animals we have never seen before. It was a really nice place to visit and I'm glad we went. Afterwards we went to the Cahuita national Park, walked a kilometre or so down the beach and trail and found a spot to get some sun! Later for dinner we...

Chocolate tour......... Waterfall and family arts! The owner of our hotel, Alex, super nice guy! Gave us an itinerary for today including the cheaper chocolate tour a beautiful waterfall and an art shop that was not to be missed. We stopped by the chocolate shop but there were no tours because from what we understood the Ministry of health shut them down! But I bought some chocolate anyway and it was delicious. Next stop was the Sparkling waterfall....... With a...

Puerto Viejo South of Cahita is Puerto Viejo and we decided to drive down there today to have a bit of a beach day. The beaches were really nice and there were not so many tourists. I don't have any pictures of this day because they were taking all the pictures with their cameras..... Oh well... There was a nice bar downtown called Rickeys that had good two-for-one drinks special so we had a few drinks there. Afterwards we went to a little seafood restaurant w...

Cahuita Today we drove from San Jose to the Caribbean coast to a town called Cahuita. We found our hotel pretty easily called El Encanta. It was a lovely property and after we got settled we went straight to the ocean! Then back to the pool and into the hot tub, nice! We went out for dinner to one of the best seafood restaurants in all of Costa Rica so we were told, Dad ordered a steak, ha ha