Costa Rica, Day Two

We got up just as the rain was clearing, and the morning was misty and gorgeous. We went down to the breakfast buffet, which has at least one of everything that anyone from any culture might eat for breakfast: fresh fruit, fried bananas, beans and rice, a variety of meats, sandwiches, omelets. I got a huge plate of melon. Rachel waffled up.

As we got coffee we noticed something odd. To the left of our outdoor seating, in the cloister, a man was walking around carrying a long stick with a fake owl on the end. This was presumably to keep the birds away from breakfasters, but I think it only served to make the howler monkeys in the distance laugh at us. Actually, it might have worked, because I didn’t notice any birds lurking, as they had been at lunch the previous day. Probably a coincidence, though.

After breakfast we got massages. After that, we went and spoke to salespeople with some local tour companies about things to do the next day. We ended up booking a canopy/zipline tour, where you walk on tree-to-tree rope bridges, look at local wildlife, and go down ziplines. It is not the epic, middle-of-the-rainforest zipline tour we intend to do when we get to Arenal, but it’s a good warm up.

We changed, hit the pool and had a couple of drinks. Then lunch. Then came Nap #6. I wonder if they’re putting something in the drinks here.