Category: Parts Unknown
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I do like piña coladas. I don’t like getting caught in the rain.
Tuesday we all woke up soaked. Turns out after 36+ hours of rain everything is damp. Jacob was only feeling slightly better and our wifi that had so promisingly turned on Monday night was off again. At the prospect of spending the rest of our vacation damp, sick and with…
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Caribbean Coast
We haven’t really done much the past few days. We were basically disconnected at our tree house – no cell reception or wifi so we set out our first morning to see what we could see. We did a little tour of the area and surrounding beaches and stumbled upon…
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On top of the trees
For our final day in La Fortuna we booked ourselves into Mistico Hanging Bridges – 22 different bridges through the rainforest, 6 are hanging bridges in the treetops. We set out at about 10am for the 2 mile round trip walk. Thankfully this was also mostly stroller friendly so we…
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Arenal Volcano
The main reason we are in Costa Rica is so Charlie could see a volcano and today is the day. Well, after we file a police report it will be the day. Jacob spent the morning itemizing what was stolen at the police station while I tried not to lose…
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There’s a first time for everything
We had an incredible day today. We had originally planned to visit the volcano today but when we woke up it was quite cloudy and they were calling for possible showers. Since it’s going to be a challenge to get the kids to hike the trail we figured we would…
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Rio Celeste
We set out for La Fortuna Monday morning. La Fortuna will be our home base for the next four nights. Charlie especially has been looking forward to this part of the trip – waterfalls, volcanoes and suspension bridges. We decided to break up the three hour drive with a stop…
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Final days in Guanacaste
We essentially did the same thing for the next two days – hung around the villa for a few hours in the morning then loaded up the car and headed for Playa flamingo. The third day we went a little later so we could eat supper there instead of lunch…
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Playa Flamingo
Another day, another beach. This was day seven for us on the pacific coast and we have seen just as many beaches. We decided to do another day trip today to Playa flamingo. The beach got its name not because there are any flamingos around but because they say the…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 