This weekend was absolutely amazing. I took an excursion through the school with all of my friends to Monteverde and the volcano Arenal. Here is the map of our weekend...
We started out after school on Friday at 1:00 and drove until dinnertime before we got to Arenal. Arenal is up in the mountains so it is a little bit colder with a lot less humidity. As soon as we got there we put our swim suits on and headed to the Baldi Hot Springs. The hot springs was so beautiful, even in the dark, it had probably a dozen hot pools with varying temperatures and three big water slides. I absolutely love water slides, so i stayed there for most of the time. Unfortunately we only had an hour and a half there before we had to eat dinner and return to the hotel. Everyone loved it so much we are trying to figure out a way to come back during a free weekend. After sitting in the hot pools and driving all day we were all exhausted and fell asleep early..
Our Hotel
The next morning we had breakfast at 7 and left at 8 for the waterfall. It was just a short ride to the waterfalls where we were able to swim for a few hours. The water was COLD! but felt amazing after the hike down. After getting soaked we returned to the hotel to change and have lunch before heading off to Monteverde. Im not sure if it was necessary or if it was for fun but we took a ferry across a huge lake to get to our next stop but we were all tired and it was pouring rain. After a few more hours of driving we finally made it to our hotel in Monteverde around dinner time on Saturday night. Once again we were all so tired we went to bed really early. 6:30 the next morning we had a quick breakfast and left for our canopy tour. A few girls had already been on a canopy tour so they had an idea of what to expect. I had no idea. I am kinda afraid of heights so i was getting very nervous on the ride up there. It ended up being so amazing that i am hoping to go back with my Mom and Sister when they come down. There were 11 ziplines set up all across the forest. Most of them were normal ones but there were three special ones. First there was just the repel down. straight down. It was probably two stories of free fall, just enough to make your stomach drop. The next crazy one was the tarzan swing, this was the scariest of them all. It was exactly how it sounded..you started out on a ledge and there was a rope that you were hooked to and you just swung, like on a vine, back and forth until you stopped. I have a video of me doing it that will come up someday. The last one was the superman one. This one was scary but there was no drops. You were hooked up to the zipline on your back and your butt and you pretty much just flew to the other side.
Video coming soon..
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