Friday, March 25, 2011

Day 7 La Fortuna, March 25th Waterfall, Zip Lines, Souvenirs & Closing Circle

Reporting from La Fortuna, Costa Rica is Jenna and Kailey. Today was our last day. For breakfast we had pineapple, watermelon, banana, linto, and pancakes. Then we left to go a see a waterfall on a volcano. We walked up about 10 giant hills to get there. When we finally got there, we walked down 400 steps. It was torture. We finally made it to the base of the waterfall. It was beautiful and we took many pictures. Then we dove in an area that the waterfall lead into. The water was so cold. Chris, Caelin, and I (Jenna) had a water fight. We got out of the water, dried off, and began the trek back up the 400 steps. At the end of the stairs, our thighs hurt very badly. On they back to our hotel, it seemed much shorter than the hike up because we were running down the big hills instead of walking up them. When we got back to the hotel, we played cards and some of us went to the pool to get a tan. Then we went to lunch and had cheeseburgers and fries. Then we had some ice-cream for desert. Some of us were disappointed that we had American food on our last day in Costa Rica. After lunch, we had a little more free time to do whatever we wanted. Most of us played cards again. We played for about an hour and then got in a car to head to the ecoglide, a zip-line jungle. There, we got all of our equipment on and then took an open bus to our first destination on the volcano. There, we went on 8 different zip-lines right after each other. Then, we went on the Tarzan Swing which was like a leap of faith and giant swing mix. When you first got on it felt like you are going to just drop but it pulls you up before you hit the ground. Kailey screamed only for the drop and Talli screamed the whole way through. I (Jenna) didn't scream at all. Chris' jump was the best. We were all inspired by his inspiration on the swing. after that we went on 4 more zip-lines. The last 4 zip-lines were longer than the others and they were higher. They were also the best. We got back in the car and headed down town. There we all bought gifts for family members and friends. Kailey and I bought gifts for all our family. Once we got home, we had about an hour of more free time. Some people stayed by the pool, while others took showers and played cards. We then went to dinner and had spaghetti and garlic bread, with more ice-cream for desert. After dinner, we did our closing circle for the trip and went to bed.


6 comments:

Eulonda said...

Great, vivid report. GoOooooOOoo Tali!!

Susan A said...

Ben, So glad we got to talk tonight! Thanks, Chris, for the use of your cell phone. We are missing you tons! Can't wait to see you on Monday night. Bring chocolate!!!!
XOXOX
Mom, Dad, Abby, Wags and Sponge Zoey Diaperpants

Marcia said...

Chris-Thanks so much for giving us the opportunity to talk to Brigid!
Can't wait to see you very soon Brigid! It was great to hear your voice tonight. Don't worry, you are missing NOTHING here except icky cold weather. My birthday present had better include some of that great local chocolate. Mackie is glad to have 2 more days of stealing your bed :-)
Thanks to Hillary and Mr. Wooden for looking out for you kids!
We love you!
Mom, Dad, Cameron, Mackie, Elsa, Raffiki

Unknown said...

ok. Jenna, i've been working for over an hour and sent two different messages only to figure out that they didn't go through. I think I figured that you need to have a gmail acct to send. So I set up one.

I'm so sorry you didn't "open" mail throughout the week. Watching the videos and looking for you was the highlight of my days. I couldn't wait until it was your turm to report and video!!

I agree with dad. Your hosts probably we don't feed you at home. It looks like you've experienced things that you'll remember for a life time, You've certainly done think that I haven'tlike whitewater rafting and the Trazan swing,

Can wait to see you on MOnday.

Love you so much. mom

Unknown said...

A couple typos in last message but with a gmail account blogging is easy.. it's 1:19am here. Gettng ready to snow. SAw some of your ODP friends this evening at Red Robins. Can't sleep thinking about you looking for my message, wondering if I was thinking about you. If it was hard for me to figure out why my messages weren't going through, than grammy was a lost cause. It's totally a discrimation against AOL users.

I'll blog again tomorrow.

Love you. mom

Donna said...

Hi Lexa-

It was so good to talk to you last night. Can't wait to see you tomorrow and get my hugs! Have a great last couple of days. Be good for Ms. Hytken, Mr Wooden and Chris - this was more than they bargained for!

BTW Caps won 2-0. Backstrom had two assists. There are two home games when Austin is away next weekend, so I guess they are yours!


Love you - Mom