Saturday, March 1, 2014

This morning I woke up early, took a quick shower, and hung out in the hammock outside of our room.  The hammock was an excellent place to be.  The views in Monteverde were amazing and it was a hammock.  The weather was a little bit crisp, but otherwise beautiful.  It reminded me of being up in the mountains in Colorado at Rocky Mountain National Park.  Eventually the girls woke up and we went down to eat breakfast and find out where we could buy our bus tickets for the next day.  The trip to buy our bus tickets turned into a hike to find a special tree that was impossible to find.  After almost an hour and a half, we gave up and flagged down a cab thinking that we were way far away from our hotel.  It turned out that we were about two blocks away.  That was lovely.  We relaxed after that hike and then went back into town to find a little bit of lunch before our shuttle came to pick us up for our afternoon adventure.  It got there at about 12:30 and then we were off to Selvatura.  We started that adventure off by doing a hanging bridges tour.  This was essentially a hike that had eight bridges that were pretty high up that you crossed to get over canyons and rivers.  Although we did not see any animals, it was a fun hike that we took a lot of cool pictures of.  After our hike, we were right on time to catch our zip-line tour.  They equipped us with all the harnesses and helmets and gloves and whatnot and sent us to catch the short shuttle to the starting point.  They gave us the quick instructions and sent us on our way.  Naturally, I got stuck on the very first zip-line, but hey, I’ve done it before so I knew what to do.  I turned myself around and pulled myself to the platform.  This particular zip-line had you hold on to the line behind your head to keep yourself straight and that was a lot of work.  Every 3 or 4 zip-lines you had to wait for the workers to catch up, but otherwise the zip-line workers were pretty good about keeping you moving from line to line.  After 16 zip-lines, we watched McCall do a Tarzan swing and then finished things off with a full 1 kilometer zip-line.  After this full day, we were all ready for a shower and to get some food.  We did this and finished the day off by watching a movie while keeping a close eye on the score for the OSU v. Kansas basketball game.  A hearty cheer could be heard from our room when the game went final and the Pokes pulled off the upset.  Afterwards, I was exhausted and slept like a baby.