This week was a lot better than last week! Still having some frustrations, but it's all good :)
Monday was my host grandpa's birthday so we had a party for him with a bunch of family over which was crazy and fun!
Here's my host mom wearing a note that says "Lauren is my favorite white person".... I may or may not have made her wear it.
This weekend Sarah, Colleen, Emily and I went to Rio Celeste. It's really close it La Fortuna which is where our group trip was this weekend. But we didn't have class on Thursday so we went a little early to squeeze in this extra trip.
On Thursday, we stayed in a cool hostel for the night and just hung out in the town of La Fortuna. It is a super small town but it's very pretty. It is the town that surrounds the Arenal Volcano.
Most of Thursday we spent walking around and trying to negotiate prices with tour companies and taxi drivers on how much it would cost to take us to Rio Celeste the next morning. We finally acted uninterested enough at this one company and they gave us a ridiculously low price :)
On Friday morning we went to Rio Celeste to do the hike. We were warned at the beginning that it was pretty muddy because the rainy season has begun.
It was about a mile and a half to the waterfall and it was gorgeous. It is naturally that beautiful blue color.
We kept walking and encountered the start of the mud. The pictures I took really doesn't explain how much mud there was. At one point we were calf deep in mud.
So we decided to turn back. Mostly because we were on a time schedule because we had to get back to meet up with the rest of our group which were coming later that day.
When we got back to La Fortuna, we went to the hotel that we were staying in that night with the group. It was SO nice. It was just a bunch of little cabins. So pretty! And there were hot springs which were amazing.
My roomies!
Later Friday afternoon we went on a boat ride to see the volcano. It was very cold on the water. But the views were definitely worth it!
Friday night we had pizza (yay) and hung out in the hot springs. So relaxing.
Saturday morning we went to the Arenal Volcano National Park. We got to hike pretty darn close to the volcano. But you can't hike the actual volcano because it's still an active volcano.
Even though it was my second time seeing this volcano it was still has fun and amazing. It's so beautiful and all of the landscaping in the entire town of La Fortuna is just beautiful!
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