You say its your birthday.....

You say its your birthday, well its my birthday too yeah! She wanted me to sing Happy Birthday on the balcony so I did a shortened version. We had breakfast and went to meet our tour., We are in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica today. Last time I was in Costa Rica it was on the Pacific side but have the say the weather was much the same. Mostly cloudy but when the sun was out it was hot and oh so humid. This was our first attempt to get up and be ready to go somewhere before 9 AM and we probably wouldn’t have made it if it hadn’t been for gaining another hour yesterday. Now it is light very early and dark very quickly.

Cocoa pod

Spider was quite large...

Ants were very large too...must be the humidity that makes everything grow so large here.

Sloth was scowling at us as we left.

Everything grows large here...this is a cashew!

We got on the bus and drove about an hour over very bumpy roads to the Veragua Rain Forest. Kay was most uncomfortable on the bus as the seats were very close together and she couldn’t fit her knees in so we sat in the handicapped seats going up. They divided us into two groups when we got there…those who wanted to hike to the waterfalls which were difficult and steep and those that could walk on level ground. We were in the second group. It was interesting but much waiting in line it seemed which was rather boring. After walking through the forest and seeing it up close and personal, viewing the displays of snakes and frogs local to the area we got to go into the butterfly habitat. That was really cool but after all the waiting around all day, they rushed us through there. Sadly it was the best part of the tour and we didn’t get to spend much time there. We then had a box lunch and were taken on the aerial tram which was very cool and then walked the floor of the rain forest seeing nasty huge spiders, ants that were over and inch long and other nasty insects. There was a lot of walking and when we got back we took the tram back up the mountain. We did see some howler monkeys in the trees and when we were leaving we got to see a sloth in a tree by the exit. Very cool. Kay was pissed because an old couple were sitting in the handicapped seats when we boarded the bus so her ride back was not comfortable.
We had dinner in Silk Harvest tonight which is a pay venue of Chinese/Japanese food. It was very nice and they brought Kay a little cake for her birthday. The food was good but we thought the “small plates” as they called them or tapas like servings were better than the main course. We went to the Hot Glass
Show for awhile but it is much like watching paint dry so we moved on and came back to the cabin to get our books to read while waiting for the show. The comedian was funny and we had some good laughs and came back to the cabin You say its your birthday, well its my birthday too yeah! Happy Birthday Lady Kay!