Costa Rica 2008 - Jayden 12

Costa Rica 2008

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We flew down to visit family, our Aunt Tricia and Uncle Jonathan, and our one and a half cousins (due any day now)

McDonalds sundae's are good no matter what country you are in

Their most exciting part of the whole trip

Looking out over some coffee fields on the way to a volcano

We travel for six hours on two planes, then for an hour on a tour bus up the side of a volcano and they get estatic about a parking lot full of pebbles :)

We got to the volcano peak and it was too cloudy to see down into it

This is really in front of a decorational waterfall, but the water turned on and off at times and this was one time it had just turned off. Baby 2 said she could not look at the camera becaus she was 'taking a nap' (yeah right)

There were a thousand stairs to walk down. Daddy carried the girls down at least half of them, but later on they enjoyed climbing them on their own.

We see butterflys, toucans, mccaws, monkeys, hummingbirds, a lizards and a crocodile and Baby 3 is just as happy to pet the puppy

Baby 1 likes to be like Mommy and nurse her doll, Baby 2 likes to too, but she stopped before I could get the picture taken

There may not be any snow outside (nor any expectation for any) but it is just about Christmas

My new Blackberry Bold came in real handy after downloading Charle Brown Christmas and a Handy Manny (cartoon) so they could watch on the plane rides

How technology changes. Click here to see the photos from our previous trip five and a half years ago.
Those photos were taken with a decently high end consumer Kodak APS camera, the above were taken with a Canon digital elph SD850IS.
Here are some cute short videos...

Here are a few special things to remember about this trip:

The cost of the flights would have been double had we flown only a couple days later (directly over Christmas rather than just before). (This was decided months in advance.)
The weather ended up being 10% chance of rain the whole time we were there and jumping to 60% the day after we left.
Had we returned only a day or two later we would have been stuck in our layover port of Miami for a few days (perhaps even over Christmas) due to bad weather at our final return destination.
We spent a few days at my parents place before returning home and the day after we left my parents street flooded for two days (which would have made it impossible to leave during that time).
We would have liked to have been there for the baby to be born, but he arrived a week and a day after we left.
The place we saw the most cool animals, the prettiest restaurant and the waterfalls, where would have liked to go back again was La Paz Waterfall Gardens (Dora Beth has on the orange sweatshirt).

Praise God for allowing everything to work out so wonderfully for us!

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