Slept like a log last night! Today we headed into La Fortuna and had breakfast at My Coffee. Then we walked through some touristy stores...I'm looking for a mug Kerri wants to replace (one she got down here and broke). We didn't have luck with that, but I got some cool earrings made out of Costa Rican money and Jeff bought cigars.
Then we tried to find the waterfall, but didn't (think it might be in the other side of town, we'll try again tomorrow), so we went to the national park instead. We hiked around for over an hour and a half, but you're in the rain forest basically the whole time, so there's not too much to see other than lots of trees and ferns. There was one spot we hiked up some stairs to an old lava flow and could see out to Lake Arenal, but the volcano was blocked by lots of clouds today. There was also a huge old tree they estimate to be over 400 years old.
After we got back we walked over to the hot pools. Tried a few of the different pools, different temps. I'll need to bring my camera next time, it's very cool. I saw a 10 inch long gecko/lizard run across the stream in front of me...looked like he just ran really fast and sort of stayed on top of the water (Rex would have loved it, Mego!).
Had a couple of drinks in the regular pool after that, then came back here. Jeff's finishing getting ready, then we're off to find a place for dinner.
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