We have arrived! Alice, Carrie, Annie and April have been in Costa Rica for only a couple of hours and have made ourselves comfortable in the only "man made" hot tub we will see on this trip. Early in the morning we head off to a hostel in Arenal by ways of our rental car.
The landscape on the way.
More landscape. We thought it was very interesting that these "tree fences" were all over the country, even in the most remote areas and in the middle of nowhere.
We made it to town and we are enjoying our second meal in Costa Rica (first was breakfast). We explored the town this day and prepared for our first excursion the next day, REPELLING DOWN A CANYON WITH WATERFALLS!
Here we are smiling away, ignorance is bliss. This is the truck that we had to ride to the top of where ever we were repelling down. It took us on a very steep, bumpy and dusty road. There was also another couple that we met there who went on the excursion with us. They were from England and were so nice! They were laughing at/with us the whole time.
This is our first practice rappel, this is Annie in the harness and I am standing by in the turquoise shirt, wondering what have I got myself into. Carrie is on the far left.
We are all so proud, we made the first rappel and apparently I am sending "peace" to the world, I seemed to have missed the mountaineer pose opportunity. We did around 6 or 7 rappels and they were all amazing! Some we "walked down a waterfall cliff and some we just dangled. The last one for me was the scariest because we had to have a rope guide and my helmet kind-of got stuck on it, and it freaked me out just a tad, because I started swinging to much for my comfort level. All-in-all I would do it again in a heart beat! That's ME!
On this excursion not only did we rappel, but we had to do a lot of maneuvering through crevices and down the river. It was the guides goal to get us very wet and some of our landings were in a puddle. April was caught "on film" but we all landed in this pool and pretty much had the same reaction. (sorry April I had to put this one in, get a close up on her face!)

This was at the end, and after this picture we hiked up a step hill and they provided a lunch and we got to change into some dry clothes. It was GREAT!
What does our next adventure entail? . . . . . . .

To be continued Alice