Hola, Buenos tardes..

 

Well you would think according to the subject that we saw red hot magma, but we are lying. However, we did go on a 14.5 kn 7 hour hike thru the rainforest yesterday in the Guanacaste National Park.It was pretty intense at time and at one point we were totally drenched, hence it being the Rain Forest. First we hiked a loop that took us to pools of bubbling mud and boiling water, we were yelled at by some type of monkey way up in a tree. When I first heard it I was so scared, turned around and ran with my hands over my mouth, not too sure where I was headed considering we could not see where this grunting/growling sound was coming from. I was stopped and reassured by a Swiss couple that the monkey meant no harm, according to him it was a "cry monkey", we think he meant howler, but I felt better and we carried on. Later Travis was making a joke and asked me where I was going....I guess I was going to run back to the ranger station?!?!

After the monkey incident we carried on to the headlights of the trails and made our basically straight up, 6km hike to the hot springs that were sort of disappointing and super stinky (sulphur). On the way we saw crazy stuff like this huge empty bug shell clutched to a tree with these big gnarly claws, the tail end of a big bright orange bird, massive spider, a snake skin that made Travis jump while he was taking a pic. He was bent down really close to it and a leaf blew up and well, he did too!

Straight up meant straight down,which took us as long to go down as it did to go up. We made it back to be picked up by 4pm to head back to Hotel Liberia where we have been hangin for the past 2 days.

 

We basically worked on festering in the hammocks today reading and sleeping. I finished The Lovely Bones that Sarah lent me, and started She´s Come Undone. Travis finished a book he bought for Mexico called Christ:Out of Egypt and started the Bourne Ultimatum. It is quite hot today as usual. Tomorrow we hope to take a canopy tour and go on a zip line through the rain forest.

 

Hope everyone is healthy

Thanks for # mom and dad

Hi Meggy

Get better Barb

Happy Birthday Mamma Holt

Hi Sianna, aunny Kelly and Uncle Travis miss you

 

Love Kel and Trav