After our host, Vitalis, cooked us up a light breakfast, the weather cleared up and we made our way up the muddy hill to Sky Trek. Given the unpredictable weather, we went ahead with our morning adventure with our guides, Antony and Dennis. They equipped us with rain jackets, helmets, harnesses, gloves, and the metal hand-brake/wire-connection thing. Poor Janelle kept getting picked on by the guides with stories of deaths and accidents whilst ziplining... all untrue of course.
We zipped across a total of 10 lines, half of which required climbing up these towers to the launch platform. It truly was an adventure in the clouds, especially since you couldn't see further than 50ft down some of the lines. I captured a few videos and tons of photos of our experience. For the last couple of lines, we had to go tandem with our guides because it was windy and going solo would cause us to spin and slow down half way across the line... and you would have to manually move yourself down the last stretch. I even had the chance of going backwards/upside-down for the last line. In the end, Janelle said it was the coolest thing she ever did by far (and secretly she can't wait to go bungy jumping with me... LoL).
Afterwards, we made our way over to Selvatura to check out the Butterfly Garden, Hummingbird Garden, and Reptile & Amphibian Exhibit. The Reptile part was CREEPY, so it was a good thing they were behind glass.
We drove into "the city" for a late lunch at Sally's Bakery, picked up our laundry, walked around "downtown", drank coffee at the Tree House Restaurant Bar & Cafe (there really is a tree in the middle of the place!), and found the Sharks game at Bar Amigos. The Ticos have redeemed themselves with satellite tv for catching the Sharks game.
And the funny thing is that we found wifi at all these places. Kudos to technology: we've been able to FaceTime, Skype, and text family & friends.
A shout out to the kid sister who enters her last year of teenage-dom today. Happy birthday, Christine!
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