This aint no Indiana Jones ride..

The adventure tour started out with a splash, white water rafting down the Pacuare River to a jungle lodge. Juanita was a little hesitant to begin but once we found out that it is rather difficult to tip a raft with 8 people in it we were okay, we made sure to get our seats on the special raft, the one for all the wussy girls. But we were in front so that makes us the less wussy of them all. However, Juanita´s life flashed before her eyes when banshee woman hurled herself from her raft and attempted to throw poor little Juanita overboard, all the while Lupita is hanging on to her for dear life screaming ¨she doesn´t want to go in¨, reminiscent of ¨I´m not good at this game¨. More details and pictures to come shortly. After our day in the jungle playing in waterfall slides and hiking to waterfall grottos we rafted out the next day.

After our river rafting adventrue we traveled to Selva Bananito, an eco lodge which we think is code word for we have no amenities, not even electricity. We ate by candlelight and played cards with a gas powered lantern. The next day Juanita and Lupita discovered that they are not the nature girls they thought they were. The jungle hike was not an easy little jaunt through nicely manucured trails. Ph no, we were haking it through mud trails, crossing paths of poisonous snake infested pits and man eating ant trails. It´s miraculous that we survived.

The next day we traveled by motor boat to Tortugero, Lupitas favorite part of the trip thus far. We stayed in a lodge right on the edge of the river where howller monkeys and spider monkeys inhabit most trees in the area. Juanita found her calling in life when she discovered her innate ability to call howler monkeys. They are her peeps afterall. The next day we went jungle kayaking. We saw caymen, lots of birds and discovered that we do not have the innate ability to stear our kayak, but it ended well when we realized that signing on the way back seemed to make it go by a little faster. Covers of summer lovin and jessie´s girl by Lupita and Juanita will be out soon. Next up was our private massages where we were taken to a secluded spa and got massages in the jungle, amazing.

Now we are in a little town called La Fortuna. We spent the 4th of July the Baldi natural hot springs that come from the volcano arenal. We did not forget our nations birthay, we sang the national anthem a top the highest hot spring with the 22 other members in the group. Today we went zip lining through canopy forests and rapelling, where Lupita realized that rapelling is not as fun as it looks, and has the scars to prove it. We rapelled down a 240 ft. decline in between two waterfalls, then had to climb our way back up a rickety ladder. Tonight we will be spending it dining on a makeshift potluck dinner, PB and Js and cereal. We no longer have dinners included in our tours and since our budgets don´t quite allow for eating out every night we have decided to join efforts with our new found group friends and have a potluck dinner tonight instead of going out. Our bodies are tired and we will be fortunate if we make it out to the discoteca, but Juanita is dying to laugh more at Lupitas new found love for dancing.

We have only about 6 more days in Costa Rica and then we will be on our way to the DR, if the adventure tour is anything like what we have already been doing in Costa Rica we will probably have to take about a week to recover from our over-traveled bodies.

Oh, one more thing to add, we went from fearless Jesus leader to the nature loving happy tico. Uncle marky mark, we found your costa rican twin, he even does the cabbage patch dance and all, we think that move only comes out while intoxicated.

Until next time,
Lupe and Juana