This country is so awesome!!! Well, parts of it are anyway. Parts that don´t include Zapote, San Pedro, or San Jose. Anyway, Saturday we went to see Volcan Poas. I should say try to see, I guess. I firmly believe that there are no volcanoes in this country. It´s all a hoax. They get innocent tourists to hike to places where they´re supposed to be able to see volcanoes and then.....nothing. It was very very rainy and very very windy on Saturday too, as I´m sure you can see from the pictures. After we hiked up to see the alleged volcano we went to La Paz Cataratas, which is a bunch of waterfalls. On the way down to the waterfalls there was a butterfly house (not a good as Schmetterling Haus but bigger) and a hummingbird garden. The hummingbirds were cool and the waterfalls were awesome. You could get really close to them (both the hummingbirds and the waterfalls). It could have been the perfect excursion but my poor disposition towards the end of the waterfall tour got in the way. I can be wet and be okay (and somehow I got 47 times wetter than everyone else). I can be cold and be okay. I cannot, however, be hungry and be okay, as most of you already know. I was staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarving. At the last few waterfalls I was too busy scavenging for edible roots to even bother looking at the waterfalls.
The best part of the trip was the way there. We saw at least 15 rainbows and I´m not exaggerating. We even saw the end of a rainbow!!!!! No, there was no pot of gold. We kept stopping the vans and piling out to take pictures. I only posted one, I think. About the pictures, mom, if you´re trying to look at them on our ancient computer it´ll probably be quicker to just go buy a new one, get it set up, and connect it to the internet.
Sunday we went to Isla Tortuga. Turtle Island, for those of you who are Spanish impaired. It was soooooooooooo awesome!!!!! Isla Tortuga is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean that you have to take a two hour boat ride to get there. It was a perfect day. About 90 degrees and sunny. I was in heaven. The island was beautiful. There was even a domesticated wild boar. I saw a lizard too. No one else saw the lizard and now they don´t believe in my lizard. I swear I saw a lizard. We were there for about 3 hours, chillin´out, maxin´, relaxin´all cool. Unfortunately, we had to leave at about 3:00. I was not ready to leave. But we had to so Cory and I decided to swim back to the boat. About 20 people had swam from the boat to shore. Two people were dumb enough to swim back the the boat. I was one of them. The waves were huge!!! And they were definitely not working with me. In fact, quite the opposite. Were talking waves that caused the boat driver to have to take a different route home. My arms were barely functioning by the time I got to the boat. Don´t think I´ll be doing that again. All in all, the worst part of my day was when I got slightly chilly as the sun was setting over the coastal hills and the spray from the ocean reached the upper deck of the boat. Yeah, that was the worst part of my day.
In other news, I got something other than Corn Flakes for breakfast this morning!!!! I kind of missed them, when I eat cereal is the only time that I get to drink any milk. My mom just fainted, I know it. Don´t worry mom, I´m sure all your years of enforced milk drinking has hardened my bones to the point where they can handle this brief deprivation. Well, I´m sure that I forgot to mention lots of stuff but I gots ta go, it´s time for Ecology class. I´ll try to post more pictures soon.

- posted by Jaime @ 1:06 PM