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| Costa Rica with the Folks |
It has been a while since I have written. Nika is growing so fast that she doesn’t quite know how big her body actually is, so much so that she tried to jump over a table . . .knocked a cup of water onto the computer . . .and that was that. Thus I am now computerless.
I recently got back from traveling to Costa Rica with my parents. It was really nice to get out of the heat of Nicaragua for a bit into some cooler, fresher air and be with my parents. We first went to a Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio on the Pacific coast for 2 days where we saw white faced monkeys and a few 3 toed sloths while relaxing on a beautiful white sand beach. Then up to a Parque Nacional Volcan Arenal more north which had a huge active volcano in the middle of a thick rainforest. I saw such great birds, a bunch of really colorful tanagers, toucans, and when I went on a hike one day, I saw a cat called a Tigrillo (I think ocelot in English) - it looked like a baby cheetah. It is the 3rd most endangered species in CR with only 40 left in the country. That of course was such a treat. Our last stop was at a park in the cloud forest in Monteverde. There I saw a Quetzal - again a super big treat. I also did a canopy tour on a zip line which was fun. After 9 days we took the bus back here and I showed my folks a bit of Nicaragua. We did a bunch of day trips outside of Managua. It was nice to have familiar faces around and show them where/how we live and introduce them to Nika.
