Ropes, Birthdays, and Tarzan

Hello all,
We made it to Monteverde. We´re at the hotel. There´s only one computer, no wifi. Only teachers are allowed to use the computer. So...I´ve printed notes to deliver to students. It´s been an absolutely incredible day. Absolutely. We started by leaving La Fortuna and driving around Lake Arenal. It´s the largest man made lake inCentral America. Forgive typing I´m hurrying! Anyway, it´s a beautiful but very hilly trip. We stopped at a country school where 10 students performed traditional dances for us. Our kids sat and talked with their kids. Then, back on the bus to Monteverde where the clouds are below us. It´s so, so, so beautiful. We went to the zip lines today. A tour through the cloud forest. Oh wow. I was so scared! Rosa said I had to go too! After all, she said, if it wasn´t safe I wouldn´t let them do it. Ugh. Hate when they´re right. So, I swung through the trees along behind them. Glad that this company had every safety feature imaginable. Really did feel protected. I couldn´t believe how high we were and how fast it went. And yes, we all swung like Tarzan. They so want to tell you all about it.

Back to the hotel. There was a brief power outage. No problem. It´s cool here so they lit a fire in the hotel fireplace and everyone hung out until the lights came on. I´d picked up cheese at the market in town so we could taste the difference. It was good!

We also present Jesus with his birthday present. Now, the group is having a party in the main room. There are three with a birthday on the same day. So, we have cake and ice cream both.

Funny little thing. THere´s another group here. One of the ladies is from Milwaukee. She honed in right away on us and asked if we were from Wisconsin. She´d heard there was a group here. So I said, yes...what makes you think that....She said she had heard there were other cheeseheads. So, I held up the cheese I was cutting and she just laughed.

We won´t be at our next hotel until the day after tomorrow. So probably no Internet for a couple of days. Still, I´ll let the kids know you´re thinking about them and vice versa.

Take care!
SC