Costa Rica Dia 4

Today the boys started off the day early with some zip-lining. Almost every one of the zips had excellent views of the Pacific Ocean and the forest canopies. Some of the bridges in between the stops were 200-300 feet above the ground....not for the faint of heart!

                                             

                                                           

Our guide helping me ride like Superman!

                                                         

RP embarrassing everyone by making it look so easy!

One of the other cool features of the zip-lining tour was that we FINALLY got to see some real Costa Rican animals! There were tons of Howler Monkeys in the trees. They have that name for a reason. They are so loud you can hear them up to 3 miles away.

     We also saw a sloth just chillin' on the tree top. 

As we were driving back from the zip-lining tour, a family of Coatis crossed the road. First it was mama, then all of her babies. They look like weird red raccoons with longer tails.        

Mama coati with baby coati

We had lunch at resort, which was typical American fare with a few seafood options. The menus for the restaurant were shaped like surfboards. One side is in English, the other is in Spanish.

Iguanas are regular visitors of the restaurant. These are not your average lizards. They are about 2-3 feet long and quite strong. They generally do not bother you, they are just looking for scraps.

Iguana is to the right of the ramp

We spent the rest of afternoon at the pool and beach just relaxing. However, that was rather hard to do since they were broadcasting the Costa Rica soccer game at every pool bar/restaurant around the property. The employees all wore Costa Rica shirts or jerseys to work and were very enthused about the game (many brought vuvuzelas with them). Some of them were even found to have abandoned their post to watch the game (including the lifeguard, the jet ski rental guy, and even the bartender at times stopped making drinks to watch a minute of two of the game---haha).

Dinner tonight was at the Italian restaurant. It was delicious! The only downfall is that the mosquitos are also huge fans of the restaurant. Each one of us ended up with about 5-10 bites from that evening. The restaurant sits very close to the beach so we were able to get some really great sunset pictures!

We also had a visit from a stray cat. He/she just chilled behind us for the entire meal.