What are we doing in Costa Rica?

Such as lime, floral, and bouquet!

Hopefully the local grocery store employees weren’t too freaked by our photographing their disinfectant.

According to National Geographic, our home for the last few nights in the country has the best weather in the world. It is rather nice here, warm and sunny but not sweltering, low humidity, etc. It’s also nice here because we’re staying in a pretty American-style house with amenities such as a washer and dryer. I love doing my own laundry — especially after the service in Monteverde returned our load shrunken and reeking of cheap cologne. Yuck!

Monteverde was a great place to take kids. We had so much fun hiking there and visiting Insect World, the bat exhibit, and the Serepentorium. It was great to cool off from the Caribbean, too. Aside from my tummy bug, it really felt like a vacation. However, we’re happy to be here in a comfy house with a pool and a spectacular view for our last few days. Life is good!

The view going down the mountain from Monteverde.

We encountered several traffic delays on the way down. First a herd of cows…

Next some roadwork. We got to watch them scoop a lot of dirt into that dump truck…

Delays not pictured: dogs sleeping in the road and a long detour caused by lack of signage to Atenas…

View from the pool.

This is a great place to watch the storms roll in.

We leave on Monday! We’re excited to see everyone very soon.

I saw this ice cream treat in the grocery store freezer and thought it said Amnio. “I have to get it!” I thought. Upon closer inspection, I saw that it actually says Mmmio. I bought it anyway.

On our last day in Monteverde, we hiked in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. It’s protected land that children from all over the world have donated money to buy. The trails were lovely, and there was a cool learning house with games and puzzles for the kiddos to play with at the end.