Costa Rica Trip: Part 2

Zip-lining!!! Having a 2-year-old along on the trip meant someone had to stay and watch him so I let Seth go ahead and do the zip-lining with Sam and Elena. Charlie also stayed back, although in hindsight, we really should have let him go.  So if we ever make it back Charlie, Frankie and I will be sure to finally take our chance to go.

Dan and their oldest 2 went along as well, so Joy and I stayed in the car mostly with the 4 youngest. Initially it was raining so we were stuck. After quite a while, we got stir-crazy and managed to sweet talk our way into seeing the hummingbird garden for free, which was a patio where you could be surrounded by several varieties of hummingbirds who would come there to eat. They were so used to people you could just stick a finger out by the feeders, and they would sit on your hand. We also got a very close up view of a couple of coaties.

Fortunately Dan had his phone handy so he got some pictures and footage of the zip-lining and the Tarzan swing that they got to do at the end. They went on a 2 hour trek through the cloud forest, hiking from one zip line to the next. They got to go on 13 lines total with the longest one being 1 km (over half a mile). I didn't expect Elena to go since she has a slight fear of heights, but she went and loved it.

Here they are getting ready to go:

Here's Elena on a zipline

And Sam on the Tarzan Swing