First week in Costa Rica – by Anna

We arrived in Liberia,Costa Rica at lunch time on the 25th.We met up with this Costa Rican man named Eugenio who was going to tour us around Costa Rica for a week.We were all starving so we stopped at a nice restaurant and had lunch there and we even tried plantain for the first time! It tasted weird.

After that we drove for awhile to get to Rinconsito lodge in the mountains of Costa Rica.on our drive we saw lots of birds and a couple of spiders.And my mom even held it but barely survived she was so scared.

The next day we went for a nice walk in the Rainforest.We saw some interesting animals like agoutis, a ton of birds,spiders and even MONKEYS! There were howlers,spider,and white faced monkeys.And we also found geothermal pool it smelt like rotten eggs. But looked so cool!

On the 27th we packed up our luggage and we drove to Faro Arenel lodge.On our drive we listened to Eugenio’s creepy story of when he came face to face with a bushmaster snake.We also stopped at a school it was way different then North Van.Then we stopped at a waterfall and we saw two men playing the xylophone.We had fun making boomerangs and taking magnificent photos with the waterfall.That was definitely one of my highlights in Costa Rica.When we were almost at the lodge my dad spotted the Arenel volcano with a cool cloud over it which turned into a little reunion with some friendly Costa Rican kids so we got out our Canadien pins and they all got one.That night we went out for dinner at a fancy restaurant with live music.The next morning we woke up with a huge day planned.First we would go hike a third of the Arenel volcano then go in the hot spring river.That morning it was pouring so we decided that we should go early before it gets worse.But around twenty minutes into the walk it started to pour cats and dogs we were soaked! the trails became rivers it was more rain in that day then there is in a full week in North Van.But the bad thing was that my mom had put her phone in the backpack that was not water proof so the bag got soaked and the phone got soaked and broke what a good start to our travelling year! It was a rainy afternoon! Later were supposed to go in the river but we negotiated with them to let us go to the water slide hot springs instead so we did. Yes! That night we had a wonderful pizza dinner it was so good!