This weekend has been glorious. The end. Haha no but seriously it has been a little piece of wonderful. First, the horseback ride through the mountains on Friday. Then Saturday was our "free day". We took a boat tour in search of MONKEYS!!! and other animals/birds of water down el Cane Negro that reaches the Nicaraguan border. Our journey began with a 5am wakeup call, a 3 hour car ride to the river, and a successful boat ride. We saw howler monkeys, spider monkeys, white-faced monkeys and the "light haired" monkey (apparently a very rare monkey). We also saw "caimanes" (or crocodiles) and many, many birds (my favorite being the kingfisher). Our tour guide, Dauren, brought lunch for us on the boat form a nearby restaurant with actual dishes and silverware and a table with a tablecloth..it was just precious! We had this huge boat all to ourselves and it was so fun! Then we went to the teeny town of Fortuna to visit Geovany's Parque Natural, which was "Natalia-friendly" ;) since it had nice clear and snake-free dirt trails with many gorgeous flowers among all the trees. After that we did some souvenir shopping, had dinner and crashed when we got home. Today I went bird watching with Aliza before Kat and I went to Mass in the lovely church in Monterrey. I have to mention that the homily was great! However it was a bit comical that there was a tiny chihuahua running around the open-doored church during mass and no one thought it was strange at all..! haha It was actually quite funny because Kat and I had to walk from church to the "Super Christian" (the town grocery store) and find a "ride" (what they call taxi rides) back to Leaves and Lizards or else we'd have to hike up 3 km of rocky roads..luckily we found one and just spent the afternoon packing. It's our last night here in Costa Rica--a little bitter sweet, but all in all I can say it was a satisfying and happy week..totally worth the "Murphy's Law" ailments..ha! ;)
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