For the last week, we travelled down to Esterillos Este. On the way, we made a detour to a restaurant off the beaten path called Las Iguanas. It got it's name from, well, "iguanas". We saw over 60 iguanas in a matter of 5 minutes, just hanging out in the trees, on the side of the road, etc. It was pretty cool, and the kids were blown away! We headed up to Upala, which is a border town on the Nicaraguan border. We felt kind of cool because we were covering so much of the map, but we didn't feel so cool when we got a little lost! After some frantic driving around in circles (and lots of silent prayers on my part!), we made it back to the main highway. We were a little nervous to go somewhere new, because we had loved everywhere we had been so far, and didn't think we could love anywhere else as much. Well, we were wrong, and we instantly fell in love with the southern end of Costa Rica as well. We stayed in "Casa Amarillo", a private home, which was pretty close to the beach, but we had access to all the amenities and beachfront of the Monterey Hotel. We visited Manuel Antonio National Park, and everything else, clear down to the bottom of the country. We wanted to go as far down as we could, and we thought it would be so cool, but Playa Tortuga was the ugliest spot we saw during our whole trip! Oh well, at least we got to color it in on the map!
Although the trip was amazing, and we had TONS of fun, what we cherish the most is the time we spent together as a family. We can honestly say that we had no major problems, no arguments, not much whining, and NO FLAT TIRES....amazing! Someday we will go back!
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