Travel Tuesday

I've shared a few pictures from our trip to Costa Rica, but I'm going to share a few more. This was by far my favorite thing--a brand new experience for me. 

These thermal springs:

There are 167--not all of them developed as beautifully as these. I loved this so much! 

The lower springs are swimming pools. I'm not sure why. 

We went nearly to the top to find this one and had it all to ourselves--every--time we went! It was called Shangri La--and boy, was it! 

In the back, you can see the grands in another pool--that one is hotter. The higher up you go, the hotter they are. The water comes from the volcano overlooking the springs.

Sandy and I enjoying a BBC. That was another fun thing--there were waiters taking our drink (and food) orders, then delivering them. 

By far my favorite experience of this trip. 

The only negative thing about the springs is if you needed the bathrooms. They were all the way at the bottom. They had bars along the way, so surely they could have added a bathroom or two! Stephanie when down with me when it was nearly dark. I thought we'd never get there! It's easy to lose your way amongst the paths.

Another brand new experience was riding behind Butch on an ATV.

It's pretty much what I expected it to be, but not quite as much fun as I thought. Basically you get knocked around. It's doubly worse for me since my feet didn't touch the floor of the vehicle.

Without being able to "ground" myself, I was literally flopping around and flying off the side sometimes--hanging on for dear life. I wasn't a bit afraid, but was just hoping that Butch was going to be able to hang on with me pulling at him!

Okay, well, another trip in the books!