Costa Rica Day 7: Canopy Tour

On our last day in Costa Rica we started the morning off with a zip-line canopy tour over the rainforest. I had actually been looking forward to this activity. In high school a group of kids went to cotsta rica for a science club trip and they got to do a zip-line canopy tour. When they came back they showed footage of the kids doing it, ever since then I have been dying to do it. So I was really looking forward to it. We had 11 different zip-lines on of them was as long as 3 football fields. It was so awesome to fly through the air, feel the rush of the wind and look over the whole rainforest. Very, Very cool. Some people would be scared to do it, but I was surprisingly ok with it. The scariest part for me was the platforms you had to stand on to wait for your next turn. They were made of what seemed to be very thin metal and you could feel them blow in the wind. One of them was longer and had a line for each person to stand on. I guess if all of us would have crowded around in one place it would have been to much weight and we would have fallen out of the tree. YIKES. At the end of the course there was a "Tarzan Swing" were you were strapped in and you just swung back and forth like Tarzan. That was a lot of fun. All of it was fun. What was not fun was going back to the hotel and packing up all of our things. So sad. After all of our things were packed and ready to go we took the bus down to the beach. We walked around some of the shops then stopped for lunch. All the restaurants were open and had an excellent view of the ocean. It was so relaxing, and a little bitter sweet to know we were leaving soon. After lunch we took a walk on the beach and enjoyed the water on our feet. We thought our transport was coming to pick Jeff, Camille, Mike and I up at 4:30 to take us to San Jose for the night. We planned to go back to the hotel and play a few games as a family before it was time for us to all say goodbye. Mikes parents and sister planned to catch the bus after us back to the hotel as they had some last minute shopping to do. So we took the bus back and told them we would see them at the hotel. When we got back to the hotel our bus was already there to take us to San Jose. We were surprised since we thought was were being picked up at 4:30, so Mike went to look at the itinerary again. It said 14:30.... military time.... 2:30pm standard star. YIKES. So we threw everything together and left. We didn't get to say goodbye to anyone. It was really sad. The ride back was about 3 1/2 hours. We played a few games of Ticket to Ride on the iPad and visited. We checked in at a hotel across from the airport. We were excited because the hotel had free international calling. I had been staying in touch with my family using facetime on my iPod but the signal wasn't always very good. It was nice to have a solid connection. I love going on vacation but I hate being out of contact with my mom while I am gone. When we go away I alway find a way to stay in touch with her. I guess I'm a momma's girl. After we got all caught up with family back in the states we went down to Jeff and Camille's room to play Purto Rico (a very strategy oriented board game.) Then we were finally ready for dinner. We walked across the street for diner. The food was great, it just took us 2 hours to get the food. That was not fun. After dinner we walked around a Casino just to see what it was like.... no gambling. We were good :) Then we had to get right to bed as we had very early flights in the morning. It was back to the USA.... The end of vacation is so depressing, especially when it means you have to say goodbye to family. We can't wait till the next time we get to go on a vacation with our family.