Friday, December 1, 2017

Costa Rica: Monday, November 20th-Los Lagos

Monday was our first (and only) rainy day.  We had overnight rainstorms other times, but they always cleared up by morning.  Now we could see how many people could come visit this region and never see the volcano.  
Every morning at the buffet Brielle would load up her plate with pineapple.  It was so sweet.  They also served cake for breakfast.  They didn't have dessert after dinners, but seemed to enjoy it for breakfast.  The boys all loved creating their own omelets in the mornings and the freshly made hot chocolate.   Preston and Ethan were very excited about the fruit loops.  I loved the gallo pinto.
Luckily we had planned to go to Los Lagos resort that day for the waterslides, so the rain didn't stop our fun.  
The slides went into water of varying degrees as these are also hot springs. The warmest pools were about 103 degrees.  It was such an interesting feeling going down hot waterslides.  
The kids loved using the gopro to video themselves going down the slides.  And loved going down again and again and again.  There was only a few other people there so never a wait.  
Luckily the rain cleared that afternoon in time for us to go on a canopy tour.  We went on a series of 13 ziplines of various lengths.  The longest was a 1/2 kilometer and a couple hundred feet about the ground.
They said the youngest age is 5, but decided Preston was tall enough and strong enough to go.  On these ziplines you used your back hand to pull down to slow yourself down before the platforms, so you needed some arm strength.
He did the first couple on his own and then went with our guide for the longer faster ones.  The guides called him "puerta abierta" because of his missing tooth grin.  He loved it!
Brielle also surprised me by how much she enjoyed the experience.  I thought she'd be nervous, but all 3 kids thought it was so much fun.
After the busy day and only snacks for lunch the kids had worked up quite an appetite.  We ate at the Los Lagos restaurant that night while the rain again poured down. The boys both had the buffet dinner. Preston was free (he loved being free to so many of the activities and would get so excited about not having to pay), but I don't know that they planned on him eating 4 plates of dinner.  I think Ethan had 7 plates at dinner.  :)

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