Flamingo!

13/03/2011

Buffet breakfast at the hotel and swimming pool...life is hard!

Who was asking the kids “did you put some sunscreen?” “did you put some sunscreen?” Clara!

Who was looking after the kids on a deckchair next to the swimming pool? Clara!

Who did NOT put some sunscreen and got burnt? Clara!

Good things come in threes.

 

After it was time to leave our wonderful hotel 4* Spa & Resort.... Once again: PURA VIDA! It's really a hard job and no benefits at all :P

 

Live music during lunch ;)

After another 4 hours' journey we got to FLAMINGO! On the pacific side of Costa Rica. No worries about the Tsunami, it's not going to come here. Don't be sad! I might stay here so you won't have to cope with me anymore! Jajaja Don't get your hopes too high on this option... but if it can help you...I'm going to study in England for a year so I won't come back to France before october 2012...if I DO come back one day :D

Well, anyway! When we got to Flamingo, we met up with all the tica's family and let the kids going with their own family. I also have my tica family and... how to say that... I LOVE THEM! They are just so so nice!

I live with the grandparents: Marlene and Carlos. But their daughter lives next door so their granson and grandaughter are always in the house: José is 9 and his sister Kiany is nearly 3. She was dancing all the time, it was so cute!!!!

We had rice and chicken with a salad I had never tasted before but which was very nice: potatoes + eggs + beet + mayonese. Nice ;)

Bed time at 8:30...every day sooner!!

Hot Spings in Arenal

12/03/2011

4 hours trip from Monteverde to Arenal. Long? Yes... Regrets? NONE!!!!! On the way and about half an hour from the volcan we had a stop to have a look at the biggest lake of Costa Rica which is also the biggest human construction ever done in the country. We had a fresh coconuts milk...but when I said fresh I really mean it! Can you imagine fresher than that:

The Tico just openned it in front of us and put the straw in it. Very tasty!

Getting to Arenal we were able to see the famous volcano. I thought we were climbing a bit on sunday but it won't happen as the last who tried in 2006 died because of the heat and the toxic gaz...huum better to do to the hot springs!

Can you find an animal on the picture?

We had some free time to enjoy our hotel and it was time to go back to work...leading the group to the hot springs and going with them to look after them...LOL Who am I kidding?? Well it's true that it was part of my job but I enjoyed it immensely as you can imagine! It was very relaxing and we had a lot of fun with my guinea pigs as I called them!

 

With a bar in the middle :D... But of course expensive^^

There were also 3 slides and that were the kids spent most of their time. They weren't allowed to do the middle one because it was a dangerous one. There was an sign to alert you that if you get hurt, you cannot blame it on the company.... Nice sign ;-) You can speed up to 45km/hours and the drop is quite brutal...to be sure it wasn't safe for them, as a good chaperonne, I had to try...hadn't I ? ;-) It was very fast and a bit scary but I had a lot of fun. It's true that for 12-13 years olds it's too dangerous because if you lie down as you usually do in those kind of slides because of the speed, you can badly heart yourself. Just before my 2^nd slide on the middle one (well I needed to check if my first impression was the good one ^^), all the kids were around me because the entrance of the third slide was just next to the middle one and we heard a big “BOUM” and just after a scarry yell. I still went down and enjoyed it a lot but when I got there we saw the girl who had scream and she was crying in her dad's arms. She oppenned her head because she put it back sliding down.... At least the kids were no more arguying to take this one ;)

 

We had a great realxing time in hot water.

 Dead? No, just enjoying ;)

Back at the hotel and in bed at 9pm and slept as a baby until 7 next day....PURA VIDA!

 

View from our room ;-)

SKY TREK

11/03/2011

Today was Sky Trek day! Their slogan is very true: flying over nature! It was very nice and fun. A bit scary at first because it was very windy but the view we had from the cable was so nice. For those who don't know why Sky Trek is: you are going down metalics cables suspended above the ground. Better not be afraid of heights ;-) Very funny!!

Photos are going to be better than text ;)

 

Wild animals in cage ;-)

You cna see Arenal's volcano