We are alive

Hi from Costa Rica,

So its almost been a week and we are still alive. We got to San Jose on Tuesday and decided it was just a city and it would be best to get out to the country (you were right Andy!). So we took a shuttle to the Arenal Volcano. We were quite lucky to pick a place called the Arenal Observatory to stay at, as it is pretty much at the base of the volcano, and we at night we could sit and eat dinner watching the red hot lava rocks run down the side of the hill. You could hear the rumbling on the the rocks, it was great. Apparently only 10% of the time you get to see lava and the very top, so we got it right.  The next day we went white water rafting, the water was nice and it was fun, but the class 3 rapids weren't as crazy as the ones we did in California. I guess we should have done the class 4s, oh well. After that we soaked in the hot springs at a place called Balti. We also went on some hikes around the volcano area in the rain forest, and we saw some birds, and colleen found 1 holler monkey but I missed it. We were there for 3 nights, and yesterday we got here to Monteverde, the cloud rain forest. The roads aren't the best so they are quite bumpy dirt road but its such a green lush view.

At our B and B we get white faced monkeys that come to the back porch and they feed them Bananas, its really cool. We just got back from the canopy zip line tour, it was really fun, there were about 15 zip lines, and a huge Tarzan swing where you climb up and jump off and you swing out over the canyon and back in.

So I think tomorrow we are going to head out to one of the beach areas on the Pacific side, hopefully the weather is decent to get some snorkeling and surfing  in, so far about each day around 2 or 3 it starts raining.

Hope all is good with you, till we find the next Internet cafe