are we on vacation again?

What did we do?  Good question.  I guess it can be summed up in one word, we DROVE, and we drove and we drove.  I guess we were seeking nesting turtles so we went toward Ocinal (sp?) and got horribly lost.  Hours and hours later, after a short stop on a beach, we finally found it.  Tracey had fun four wheeling and driving through numerous rivers, but I felt like a rag doll being bounced around the back seat.  One of the places we stopped prior to the final destination, was a refuge with a turtle hatchery.  One of the kids there told Bubba they were releasing some of the hatched turtles into the ocean at 5.... That's where I wanted to be, but I got overruled so we kept up the long and arduous drive that should have been a total from our door to the beach about two hours, but instead it was about five, oh, and we still had to come back in the dark and to top it off, we didn't see any nesting turtles.  I guess I should consider myself lucky to have s...

We really had nothing planned for today, and we thought we were going home tomorrow, until I looked at the flights.  Atlanta to Orlando was really full for Bubba and I, so instead of possibly spending yet another night in Atlanta, we decided to stay until Saturday.  It looks like we are going to skip the Halloween thing at Universal this year, I think it is supposed to rain there on Saturday anyway.  So with nothing set in stone, we went looking for monkeys in the wild.  We found two different troops, and the second one even had a bunch of babies.  I always find them fascinating to watch, even if most of their time is spent in one spot just munching on leaves.   After that we saw signs for a free coffee tour, so we went.... Not exactly a tour, but more of a coffee store.... And no decaf, sorry Jimmy!  There was an excellent pizza place in the same plaza though, so needless to say, that's where we had dinner.  One large and two small pizzas later a...

Today we went on a two tank afternoon dive with Rocket Frog Divers.  Another great day, although I suppose just about any day in Costa Rica is a great day. Scott was our dive master, and I think the other dive master's name was David, but I'm so bad with names it could have been anything.  On the first dive, I had a hard time with my buoyancy, I was way too buoyant and was having a rough time getting under the water. Scott came to my rescue with extra weight for my belt and a helping hand to get me to the bottom.  It was about a 60' dive where we saw lots of fish, a couple of schools even, which is pretty spectacular and five white tip fin sharks.  They were just chilling about 10 feet away from us.  While we were watching them, a huge turtle swam between us and them, which was a spectacular sight.  On the way up we say ray swim by.  Dive two followed a harrowing boat ride through very rough water, I think Bubba's seasickness was coming in to haunt him...

Another day, another baby monkey.  We met Isabella today at a different monkey place.  I would have called this one a zoo, but supposedly they don't have zoos in Costa Rica anymore.  The place had canopy tours, ATV tours and some monkeys and snakes.  We got to hang out with two baby boas and a baby howler monkey.  We probably outstayed our welcome, but we were being amused by the baby monkey and didn't want to leave.  She even thought the boas were toys and tried to stuff one in her mouth... interesting.  From there we drove about an hour and a half to a beach where we were told the might be turtles, well they seem to only come out at night, so back to Coco.  We had dinner and back to the condo.  Tracey and Bubba are swimming, and I'm lounging on the couch.... Tomorrow will be another long day