Catching up.... by the Caribbean

Hello, all. We're going to try and catch you up to our current location. We left Nick and Dawn's on May 10th to head for Dominical, a sleepy beach town. Arrived via help from Nick's secretary and friend. They helped ship us on the bus and 4 1/2 hours later we arrived to a favorite new spot. Stayed at Piramyay's, a very chill hostel, and met some new friends who showed us a secret waterfall and taught us to play the game Yaneth. Hung out by the beach quite a bit and took in a gorgeous sunset. Introduced to a new grilled cheese sandwich, involving avacado and tomoato... yum-yum in the tum-tum. Tried another tico favorite, guaro, which is a liquor made from sugarcane.






On May 12th, we caught the bus to Manuel Antonio. Stayed at another cool hostel with a pool overlooking the Costa Rican coastline. Hung out by the pool and napped in hammocks the rest of the day. Met a group of friends from Philly and went ziplining the next day. Lindsay and I both loved it. We also got to see a butterfly and serpentine farm. On the way, our tour guide taught us a couple things about the wildlife and flora. We got to see where palm oil and henna ink come from. Along the way we've seen banana trees, coconut trees, bamboo shoots and coffee fields. We also went to Manuel Antonio National Park where we got to see squirrel and white-faced monkies, sloths and land crabs (and lucky for us, a rare sighting of a wounded raccoon). The other rare sighting was of a sloth on the ground, which we later came to find only happens once a week when they have to go #2. Ate a nice dinner at The Aviator, a restaurant inside a repurposed US plane that went down in Nicaragua in the 1980s. The view from dinner was of the ocean and after the sun set there was a crazy lightning storm. Met a couple of crazy Canadians (Emily & Erin)and decided to rent a car with them and drive to La Fortuna the next day.












Will continue the blog from there soon... haven't quite made it to where we're at yet. Pretty pooped. We miss you guys.

Adios amigos,
Lindsay & Michelle