monteverde vacation from school...

I took a vacation from school and made my way up to monteverde cloud forrest with sara joe andre and patricia this last weekend. lets talk more about coasta rican roads...they suck. we took a boat to what i would call one of the worst roads i have been on..what cali guys would go off roading on is what we drive on in vans. all the people of the town have quads and dirtbikes. there was one point the van could not make it up the hill so we had to back down and try again. 3 hours later we arrived and went on a 2 hour hike thru the forrest, it was cold and wet...we literally were in the clouds- everyone went back to la fortuna but me and sarah styed the night. we decided to walk to the cheese factory that a tour guide said was 20minutes away so one we go. 20 minutes up a very steep hill we muct be there...nope 2 hours later we get there and there factory is not running and there is a small cheese stand.

when we finally made it back we went on a night hike thru the jungle and saw lots of gross bugs, terantulas, snake, a sloth. then off to dinner in a tree, yes in a tree..and the most expensive meal i have had. 15$ for a salad, but it was not rice and beans. then off to bed we went. exhausted from hiking thru the muddy puddled roads for hours.

yesterday morning we woke up...i and got breakfast....it was my first bed and breakfast experience ever and it was not bad. then off to zip lining 45mph thru the cloud forrest. it is the longest zip lines in costa rica and it looked like you were flying thru white out conditions. it was a lot of fun, much better than in mexico. by the end we were covered with oil from the lines and very wet. then back to la fortuna we went, but this time i was able to sleep on the 2hour ride down the bumpy road.

and here i am trying to download all my picts to a website but it is all in spanish and i have to download the program first and i keep freezing the computer. good luck to me;)

costa rican fact: traffic is usually due to cows and horses.