The Costa Rican 500

Starting my day with a three hour hike has taught me one thing.  Hiking is not my forte.  It also made me realize that eating homemade bread for breakfast was a good idea because we definitely burned a couple calories.  However, Cahuita National Park was absolutely beautiful.  This park is along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and is filled with quite a bit of wildlife.  On our walk I saw some lizards, a toucan, and a bunch of sand crabs.  Our group ended up splitting in half  during the walk and the other group ended up seeing a sloth and a couple of other animals.  After visiting the park we checked out of our bed and breakfast and headed to a local restaurant to eat lunch.  I ordered.... You guessed it! Beans and rice! After lunch, we hopped back on our bus and continued tha Costa Rican 500.  These curves have a special way of making you never want to eat food and then get on a bus for a few hours ever again.  Thankfully, about an hour and a half into the trip, we stopped in Limon.  This city has a boat dock that ships out a majority of the produce and products (bananas, pineapples, and other fresh fruits) that Costa Rica produces.  I have never seen so many Chiquita, Del Monte, and Dole cargo boxes in my life.  We also walked through the city and stopped to get ice cream at a local store. I got a cup of cake batter flavored ice cream and it was pretty good!  After that we boarded the bus and continued on to EARTH University.  This university has about 400 students from all over the world.  Dr. Lanier is so lucky she gets to spend the night in our dorm with us for the next couple of nights! Haha.  We are all waiting to go eat supper at another local restaurant.  I'm going to guess I'll eat some more beans... Second night of no air conditioning is going better than the first.  The rain just finished and has cooled everything off. Thank you Jesus!