Day 12 - Thanks for Making Me Go

As usual, AIS was 8am - when we discovered that the family of 15 (celebrating 50th anniversary) was leaving the tour. Tragically, the dad (guessing 70?), who recently had stints put in, had a heart attack - they believe during the zip lining. He is in stable condition and the family joined him at the hospital. Craig reassured us that he would continue on with the trip should anything happen to us  ;-) So now we are basically on a private tour - excepting the wonderful family of 4 still with us. 

Our day started with a river float along the Peñas Blanca's River.  Yup, sounds like a sleeper!  Unfortunately we did not see any moose, but we did see everything else!  We saw Jesus Christ lizards - they are rather small so I have no idea how the guide spots them. And a sloth (looks like a nest), monkeys, plenty of birds, poison dart frog (tiny so they pick one up for us to see). Oh yeah and at least 6 crocodiles!!  We stopped at the farm of Don Pedro (he's 101 years old) for coffee, plantains, cheese and tapioca bread. Then we divided up into dry and wet boats. You can guess who went in the dry boat. No, not me. Though extremely tempted to, I had heard this was the best thing of the entire trip. Dry boat was passengers 70+ years old. Everyone else split into 3 boats and were given buckets. We were told 2 rules for the water fight: no pushing people in and no throwing buckets.  Honestly I never thought I'd have so much fun getting water thrown on me, but there's nothing better than laughing for an hour straight! The guides turned on us and were our own worst enemies. They obviously didn't hear the rules because - just after seeing crocodiles - they pushed every one of us in (except youngest Kate and Ainsley). 

After the float we stopped to see huge, friendly  iguanas.  Then in our free time, a group of us (only 7 could go) went horseback riding. Chris, Jeremy and Kate have never been. It was amazing ... The sheer bliss of flying as one with a horse!  I had a mama, and baby tagged along beside us! They let us gallop to our hearts content - through field after field.  We all had so much fun! When we got back, Jeremy said, "thanks for making me go."  He meant every word of it!

Today was my favorite day!