Costa Rica Day 3

Tuesday we woke up, had breakfast and went right over to the spa to have our couples aromatherapy message. It was wonderful. The room we had the message in was picture perfect with the most relaxing scenery and sounds of nature (birds and trickling water) set the perfect mood. After the message we were perfectly relaxed and ready to take a nap on the porch.

When we got back to the room we had a message from our brother-in-law saying that they were there. We were anxious to see our family and went down to the lobby to meet them. Mikes parents, oldest sister Heather, her husband Brandon, sister Camille, her husband Jeff (who organized the whole thing) and two youngest sisters Kayleen and Jessica all joined us in Costa Rica. It was so wonderful to have family there to share the activities and adventure with.

A little later in the afternoon and we all piled into the clown car and headed to the rainforest for our hanging bridges tour. The tour was really cool and I was pretty excited. We were studying the rainforest as our core unit in my class so I was anxious to take some pictures for my students. We had a wonderful guide who was very knowledgeable and taught us a lot about the rainforest. Every once in a while we would walk over a bridge that was suspended over the trees and have a great vantage point of the forest. We saw numerous types of birds (the only name I remember is the mottmot birds who dig nests into the dirt verses building a nest in a trees.) We also saw several poisonous viper snakes, a tarantula hole with a tarantula in it, leaf cutter ants and some howler monkeys. It was really neat to be in the rainforest and see all the different foliage. Very cool tour.















We also saw this cute little parrot after our tour. Apparently he just flew from the forest to the tour center to say hello.

After our tour we headed back to La Fortuna for dinner. We went back to the same restaurant as the night before (Los Brasitos.) It was just as delicious as the night before. And the family enjoyed it was well so we were pleased that out recommendation was well received.

After dinner we walk around town for a little bit. We took them to the grocery store so they could get some oreo wafers of their own :) Then we went back to the hotel and took our nightly dip in the hot springs. Mike, his parents and I played a warm up game of pinocle before going to bed. It was nice that all of our rooms were on the same street. It made it easy to get together in the evening. It was fun to have people to spend time with at night.