Tuesday - Exploring Costa Rica Day

On Tuesday we ate breakfast and then headed to our bus for a morning zip line tour. We got there suited up, hopped up on the platform and zipped down the first line. AND....I freaked out. I loved the zipping part. I hated the handbreaking with a guy not paying attention to tell me when to brake and landing on a metal grate strapped to a tree 10 feet in the jungle that moved! I refused to go any further and so they zipped us back where we listened to and watched the howler monkeys while the rest of our tour finished.

We returned to the Occidental for lunch and afternoon at the beach. That was so super relaxing and beautiful. Glenn snorkeled for a while and while doing so lost his wedding ring! Unfortunately, it is now floating somewhere in the Pacific.

After a few hours we showered and got ready for our evening tour....a sunset boat cruise. The down sides: the company was an hour late to pick us up and it was storming on the mainland so not the best sunset. The up sides: it was still beautiful, Glenn and I were together and it was COOL!! (Finally, temperatures we liked!)

ready to try zip lining

our first howler monkey sighting

high tide!

Glenn snorkeling (and looking for his lost wedding band!) with a couple, Jessy and BJ, from Texas

Yep, love this place!

Monkey Island (so named because it looks like a monkey head)

Sunset boat cruise on the Pacific Ocean