Monteverde, zip lining and much much more

I wrote this all last week but the internet was being a jerk so I couldn't post it. Just be aware that this post is a week late.

So on Friday (The 22nd)  we went to Monteverde which is a cloud forest. Basically that is a fancy way of saying that the mountain is so high up and the clouds are so low that the two join together. It's very pretty but too chilly for me. I didn't really need more than a jacket and long pants but that was more than I wanted to wear. However, it was totally worth it for Saturday. I went Zip Lining and jumped on a Tarzan Swing. For those of you that don't know, Zip Lining is when you hook yourself into one of those harnesses that wraps all over your butt and then you slide on a wire that is suspended between two trees.

Don't worry. I got this. 

I went on eleven. The first few were baby ones that taught me how to brake so I didn't run into a tree but then it got fun. I went on one that was thousands of feet long where I was flying through the trees, probably about 30 feet up, looking around when all of a sudden -WOW! The trees dropped away, the sun hits me and I am flying 240 feet over the forest. It was incredible! I wish I could explain it better but I can not find the words to describe it.
Just WOW.


Then it was time for the Tarzan Swing. I stood in line for twenty minutes pretending I didn't know what I was in line for. I was like Hmmm. There seems to be a line in the middle of the forest. It must be for ice cream. This was totally ignoring the fact that I had had been looking forward to the Tarzan Swing for months. Then when it was almost my turn I told myself Oh Look! I get to walk on a suspension bridge! I love suspension bridges! Finally I started walking down the bridge towards my doom, I mean the two men, the bridge stopped abruptly over the forest, the men hooked me to a rope, I bent my knees and . . .


~Free~


        ~Fall ~


                   ~ing~




One hundred and something feet later the rope caught me and I began to swing. Freaking Awesome! I now want to bungee jump so bad but I can't find the courage. I think I would love it if they could just throw me off of the bridge. Definitely the next thing on my list of things to do!

The rest of the weekend was a lot less adventuress. A few friends and I went to a discoteca to dance for a while but the music was terrible. While the DJ was in charge all we heard was Rihanna and Pitbull. When the band played all we heard we 80's english songs massacred! The only cool thing about the place was the number of dogs chilling in the bar. At first I thought they were strays and I kept my distance but I finally noticed that they were all clean and healthy. Then I thought it was adorable. However, we couldn't handle the music. We called a cab and asked him to take us to a bar where there would be no gringo music. And he did. Me and one other girl were the only white people to be seen. It was soooo much fun!

The next morning I ended up going on a hike in the Cloud Forest National Park (or something like that) My two friends and I can not read a map so we ended up on a wrong trail and didn't make it to the continental divide but I think I liked it better that way. We saw no one else from our group and it was kind of nice. We pretended we were hiding from the dinosaurs. (Jurassic park was filmed in Costa Rica.)

Yes, the leaves are this big.