Waterfall Gardens

A traditional Costa Rican ox-cart

One of the beautiful waterfalls

Feeding the hummingbirds

The rain forest

If you only looked at our blog, you would think we were on vacation. It's hard to blog about the day-to-day activities like studying, going to school, laundry, grocery shopping and rainstorms.

After a week of the kids being home from school and mostly being stuck at home because of rain, we awoke on Sunday morning to bright sun and decided to take a day trip to some Waterfall gardens that were recommended to us.

The drive was incredible. A windy road through the mountains of coffee plantations. When we arrived at the gardens we found out that half of the trails were closed due to an earthquake in January. As a result, we were only able to hike to 2 waterfalls instead of 5. But we got a discount which was fabulous, since we've found that the tourist attractions can be quite spendy here.

In addition to waterfalls, there was a small "zoo" of rainforest animals---monkeys, frogs, snakes, butterflies, birds, and our favorite the hummingbirds. They were amazing!! How is it possible that their wings beat 60 times per second. It was so nice to get away from the city for the day. And the rains held off until after lunch--what did we expect, it is a rainforest! =)