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Today rained and rained and rained. We tried to go to a national park, but the route the girl told us about was 4 hours round trip. Then she told us about hot springs, and we decided to go there. I think the 4 hour walk would have been better. The place was called "simbiosis" and it was very disappointing. It was $20 each to get in and there were dry saunas, mud and very muddy hot spring pools. I just couldn't do it. I wonder what was living under the muck. Supposedly the water came from a hot spring that was mixed with river water, but YUCK! The other three were much braver than me and they sat in the muck while I got bit by mosquitoes..... fun! To their credit though, the place did give me my $20 back since I didn't use any of the facilities. On our way out of the place, we followed the signs the thermal pools at Rio Nigro. Bubba and Tom walked down there and said it was much better, cleaner and only $5 each to get in. Live and learn. We found a gem of a...

Today we are sitting in a hotel in the Monteverd Cloud Forest. So, how did we get here? Well on a whim we decided to take a drive over the mountains and through the woods and ended up here. It is very rainy and cloudy, so I guess the name is appropriate. Tracey was in heaven (of course she doesn't believe there is one) driving up here. It was a dirt road that had hundreds of hair pin turns and many many pot holes. there was even a section with a river running over it that we had to drive through. this was quite a change from our original plan of spending an extra day at a hot spring. I thought Bubba was going to throw up looking over the side that dropped hundreds of feet below us. Today we are going to going walking through the cloud forest. We made it back to the time share and to our surprise all of our stuff is still here. Today is Friday morning and if we can ever get the sleeping beauties up, we are going to the Rincon de la Vieja National Park. It's supposed t...

Well, It's actually the morning of the 3rd day, and we are sitting by the pool (hiding from the sun.) The weather this morning is beautiful and we just saw a plume of smoke shoot out of the volcano. What a sight! This hotel is absolutely incredible. There are a lot of tropical plants and flowers, and the humming birds are everywhere. One even flew so close to Bubba's head that he could feel the breeze from it's wings! We are having a great time. Yesterday we drove down here from Coco Beach, it took a few hours, but no one was really counting. We got here when the sun was still out and found the hotel, Volcano Lodge and Gardens-- as i said before it's beautiful! We went to a volcano viewing spot, and sat in the pitch black jungle waiting for hours for something to happen, but this isn't Disney and it doesn't erupt on cue. Walking back in the dark was interesting, yes, it's only 5 minutes, but 5 minutes in a dark jungle with an ipod (we're such c...

We just flew in yesterday, what a beautiful country! Unfortunately it poured and poured for about an hour, then it got better again. Today we drove to Santa Rosa National Park. It's such a nice place. We saw some white throated capuchin monkeys and some red-headed wood peckers. The rain forest was great,and no rain today... what a relief! We are having a lot of fun so far. The time share has a brick oven pizzaria on the property, and I can get wi-fi if I sit in one spot in the living room.... what more could you want? Tomorrow we are heading to the arenal volcano. We will be there for two over nights, and then back here to the time share again. So far, Tracey has done all of the driving, which means that Bubba gets to be a tourist too... very unusual for him. Tom's with us too. It's only 8pm and they are all in bed already. We really are getting OLD!!! Oh, one of my cameras is broken. Of course it is the one with the better zoom. That is the bad news. The good ...