M & M's Great Adventures

Los Heroes...A little Swiss retreat

On our way to Monteverde we found this cool Swiss Hotel and dairy called Los Heroes. We stayed in the room that had the balcony rapping around in the L-shape! Our room overlooked Laguna de Arenal...the largest lake in Costa Rica. We even got a train ride, which took us to a spectacular vista overlooking the whole area and which also had a rotating restaraunt???!!!

Volcan Arenal

Hola! The view of Volcan Arenal and the deadly effects of its gases. Oh No, Michelle watch out...

Is it just us, or do our guides look more scared than we do? Rafting the "Rio Torro." There were beautiful jungle and class 3 and 4 rapids...and also lots of monkeys hopping from tree to tree on the banks!

Volcano Arenal isn't the only cook around here! La Fortuna had great local food mixed with great views.

¡Hola! Michelle y yo estamos en la ciudad La Fortuna. Hoy, nosotros FUIMOS RAFTING. Okay, back to ingles. After leaving EARTH yesterday we drove about 3 hours to La Fortuna. The country side was B E A Utiful! Lots of sodas dotted the road (which are small family run groceries and mini restaraunts, usually inside the families home). Today we ate at one soda...it consisted of fried empanadas, double fried plantains (patacones), and fried chips with a healthy dose of guacamole; Ice cream for desert and fruit filled empanadas for breakfast. In other words, rafting on La Rio Torro was quite good for us to do today...there was even a Fer De Lance sighting to increase heart function and blood flow! Oh yeah, La Fortuna sits beneath one of the most active volcanoes in the world. So nothing to worry about at all parents...

Matt has officially made it to beautiful EARTH University and to the much more beautiful Michelle. Delayed plains (check); American Airlines sucking (check); Lost in San Jose early in the morning--1am (check); Braving winding mountain roads and dense fog (check); Matt and Michelle finally together (CHECK).