TRAVELS !: Zipline/Night Hike/Spa

HOLY FUCK WE ZIPLINED!!!

(I just had to get that out of the way.)

Today we spent the entire day on the hotel grounds.

1. Breakfast, of course.

2. Internet and watch birds at reception. They have these hanging wooden platforms in the trees behind the reception desk and they put birdseed out so all us special guests can watch Central American birds from the comfort of the lobby couch.

3. Zipline canopy tour, in the rainforest directly adjacent to the hotel grounds.

- Ziplining is super fun!

- You don't go that fast.

- Superman means that we ziplined with our bodies horizontal, like a flying Superman.

- Sean wore his Go Pro head harness the whole time, and he made a kick-ass video of our adventure.

- Our tour guys played little tricks on us throughout the course. The best one was as we were walking up a flight of dirt stairs, Roy in the back told us to look out for snakes. We giggled because there are like only three snakes in this country. I'm looking up at the leaves and out into the rainforest and listening to the birds and all of a sudden I hear a low roar and I see the branch and giant leaves to my left shake and I SCREAMED. It was Juan in the front scaring me.

- One of the platforms we zipped from was a huge metal tower, like a radio tower. It was so high up and it was windy. We could see all the way to the ocean.

- I did not like the Tarzan swing. At all. In fact, I almost didn't go on it, but ended up doing it, and screamed, "I do not like this!" the whole way down. See video.

4. We finally had some rest time, which I spent sitting in a hammock and blogging. At sunset, I returned to the room. Sean took an incredible timelapse of the sun and clouds. Sean also went out to get us dinner (pasta), which we ate with our fingers in bathrobes sitting in easy chairs in front of the doorway to the porch watching the sunset. It was a stunning sunset. Like the best ever.