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Here are the links to the You Tube videos of Sarah and Samuel zip lining yesterday. You may have to copy and paste to get them to work. Let me know if you have trouble. I am still getting the hang of this blogging thing, but I did finally get the pictures to go where they belong. The videos are short but you get a pretty good idea of the scene. We each rode 8 times. The longest ride was 240’ (3X the length of the one in our backyard). One of the last rides was waaay up above a gorge. That’s the one that ends on the platform where the picture of us safety hooked to the tree was taken.

Not much new to report today. We planned to go to Ventana Beach, about 8 miles south of here, to swim and see some caves. But the road had washed out from last night’s heavy rain (picture). Those are Sarah and Samuel in the potholes. We tried to walk, but the footpath was very steep and slippery with red mud. I had a few falls before we decided flip flops were not the right footwear for this excursion. We’ll go back another time with proper shoes.

We headed to another nearby beach, Playa Tortuga (Turtle) but after a long drive through a crocodile habitat we were disappointed again, as this beach was not a pleasant place, and looked dangerous to boot. So we drove back to Uvita and ate a place called the Dome (“La Doma"- How will I ever remember these Spanish names?). It’s another place geared to Americans, but run by locals. We had a Greek burrito, a jerk chicken Jamaican burrito, pancakes and bacon, and a hot dog (Samuel). It’s in a little plaza with a fancy home furnishings store, a pharmacy (“speak English”), a realtor, a 24 hour emergency medical place, and some other businesses catering to tourists.

We returned to Hermosa Beach, our favorite, and let the kids play in the water and in the little stream that flows down from the mountain to the sea. They made a lean-to while I strolled around. I found a whole fish but it wasn’t very fresh. We did some marketing instead and came home to rest up for tomorrow’s trip to San Isidro. We are ready for some big city sights after a week in the hinterlands.

More tomorrow. We’ve got 9 followers but only 3 ever post messages. Hmmm………..