Day 12 - Thursday March 13th

This morning with the kids before our walk.


This morning Chaz and I woke up before the others so we decided to go for a walk. We didn’t make it down the driveway though because the kids were outside playing with their paper airplanes and when they saw us they came running. Issac wanted me to throw his airplane back and forth to each other and when I threw it, it landed on top of the neighbors house! I felt so bad. He didn’t seem to mind though, he just started laughing. They all took turns taking pictures with my camera and then looking at their pictures and laughing. These children here are always so happy, they just laugh at anything. After about 20 minutes we tried to explain that we were going for a walk but they wouldn’t let us. They started jumping on our backs and hanging onto our legs. They followed us down to the end of the driveway and just stood by the road as we walked up the hill, they all looked so sad. We’ll surely miss them when we leave.


After everyone woke up we had an amazing breakfast that the girls prepared and then Sam and I went into Quepos to hit the internet cafe. At 12:15 we picked up Carmen and headed to the house. The tour company picked us up at the house at 12:30 and we were off to the rainforest to do the zipline tour. We had 4 guys with the tour company, one to take pictures, 2 to help us on the zipline and one to stay behind and take the bus to the finish. Our main tour guide was Thomas, who was from California. He's been here a year and a half, a really nice guy and very knowlegeable about the area. On the second platform it started raining, and I mean pouring. The cameraman had to leave to protect his camera. Did I mention that the rain makes you go faster on the cable and harder to slow down or stop. We saw a sloth up in the tree sleeping on the 3rd platform! Chastity did great, she was alittle afraid of the zipline but all in all she did spectacular! The 2nd to last zipline is 1/2 a mile long and you get up to a pretty fast speed! After the tour they took us to this house with a big covered patio and kitchen and fed us. They even served us coffee because we were all so soaked and cold. Yes cold....up in the mountains and especially when your wet you get cold. I think my camera is dead after getting so wet. I am letting it dry out and hoping that is will revive itself, if not we still have Sam and Amanda's camera. We were back home by 4:45. After changing into some dry clothes we all went to a nice restaurant in Manuel Antonio and had a bite to eat and watched the sunset. Good night!