Costa Rica Day 1

Today is day 1 of our twelve day trek! So today we woke up early and after some breakfast we grabbed a shuttle to an airstrip where we took a plane to our next destination. We could have driven but we had to cross a few mountains so it would have taken four hours by car, so instead we enjoyed a half hour plane ride with huge side windows for our enjoyment. When we got off the flight we took a shuttle to a restaurant for lunch (they haven't stopped feeding us since we got here!) and then went on a nature hike.

The "family" was split into two groups for the hike, (it was basically a walk because it was flat the whole way) the older group and the younger group. We saw two toed sloths, three toed sloths, crabs, frogs,monkeys,

grasshopper

and a fake Tucan our guide pretended it was real and all the kids fell for it including my dad who took a picture of it (not me :). At the end of the hike we arrived at the beach where they shot "spy kids" and "the blue lagoon".After swimming at the beach for a couple of hours we went followed another path back to the hotel and saw another animal uncle Brent described as being a rat-squirrel. further along the path we arrived at a river which was filled feces and other bodily waste. There were people with boats

setup on the shore and they were charging you to ride their boats to the other side and since we didn't want to go into the water we rode the boats. For those who didn't mind the water the boat guys pushed a log back and forth like it was a crocodile to scare them into riding the boats. Once we got accross Simon, Elle, Stella and Liam were throwing rocks at another log farther out in the water. Though once simon got a good throw in, it then opened its mouth and started moving in their direction. Turns out crocodiles don't like getting rocks thrown in their faces. After we all regrouped we set of for our hotel for the night.

We are at the hotel and now we are going to be going down to the restaurant in the hotel for dinner.

Well bye!