Adios luna de miel

Well, the honeymoon is sadly over but we have much more to look forward to. This post is short and sweet because we are being picked up very shortly.

Let me catch you up to what we have been doing since the last post. Our last day on the beach was spent kayaking and snorkeling. Like the horseback riding, there was very little instruction. Our guide basically said "here's your boat, now go" which could possibly be due to the language barrier. We paddled for about 20 minutes until we got to the reef, which was beautiful. Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures!

We left the following day for the Arenal volcano. This spot was the grand finale of the honeymoon. We have been living in luxury the past 4 days with our balcony overlooking the volcano. On our first day, we went zip lining. When booking all these adventures, we had asked for the most challenging and thrilling zip line in Costa Rica since you can find them pretty much anywhere. Our bravery and toughness was quickly diminished when we hopped on the sky tram and noticed 3 elderly couples in our group. When I say old, I mean old. Almost all of them had gray hair and one was recovering from a hip replacement! They were all from Chicago and were hilarious to be around. We weren't quite bickering or correcting each other's forms on the zip quite like they were after only a week of marriage. Needless to say, the zip lining was still thrilling. We were 600 feet up and completed 8 zip lines down the mountain with longest zip being 2000 feet long!


Okay our ride will be here any second so I'll wrap this up. We also went to the Tabacon natural hot springs. We ended our honeymoon right last night by having a hot stone couples massage which left us both looking pathetically relaxed.

This has truly been a honeymoon from our dreams. We are going to Tamarindo today where we will meet our host family. All we know is that the father works in construction, the mother is a housewife, they have a 16 year-old son and a dog, and they like to play poker on the weekends. We're a little anxious!

We'll be attending Spanish school for 4 hours Monday-Friday for the next 3 weeks. I'm sure we will have internet at the school so we will keep in touch.





Love to all,

Nina and Paul