After two weeks together I had to say bye to the rest of the girls this morning, Carrie, Karen, Amanda and I had one last breakfast together in San Jose before we had to part ways. I had an amazing time with the girls on our adventure and I've made some great friends! So in keeping with pushing myself to do new and scary things I am now all alone on a beach for the next 11 days, it sure is quiet without the girls around! I arrived just before noon, my room wasn'...

Our last day together...we decided to head into town and wander around the market. Sounded like a great idea, but it was Monday, apparently the whole town shuts down on Monday...so back to the hotel we went to hang out by the pool. We then headed back to El Avion for an early dinner and to watch the sunset. We had a 3 hour drive back to San Jose, tomorrow we will all be going our separate ways. We left the two Swiss girls in Manual Antonio, Australian Carrie ...

I officially got started on my tan today! First stop breakfast there is a hostel near Manual Anotnio National Park that serves a huge breakfast for $3, it was delicious! We then plopped our butts in the sand for the rest of the day. The beach inside the national park is beautiful and the water is like bath water! There are tons of white faced monkeys around the beach, you have to keep a close eye on your stuff because they like to steal it!! We had our last di...

Another travel day today! The bus picked us up at 730am to start our journey to our final destination,Quepos/Manual Antonio. It was a bumpy start to the drive leaving Monteverde but the scenery was amazing. We stopped about half way for some snacks and a short walk across a bridge, laying around and in the water under the bridge were about 19 crocodiles! They like to gather there because they can lay in the sun and use the bridge for shade. We arrived at Hotel ...

We started our morning off with a nature walk...and we all know how much I love nature...we saw a lot of trees and occasionally a moving leaf which apparently meant there were some birds around! The cloud forest is beautiful but unfortunately the animals took this morning off, our guide was very informative though so we learned a lot about the trees and other plants. (in today's picture Amanda and I are very excited about all the trees!) as a grand finale we did ...