Our third stop was Arenal. We booked a tiny room for 4 people and I ended up sleeping approximately 3 hours in a shower stall with bugs crawling over my face using luggage wrapped in a shower curtain for bedding. Not fun. Note to self – pay closer attention to the rooms Susan is booking.<\/p>\n
Our second night there we booked another room at a hotel that was a kids paradise. Slides everywhere that emptied into hot pools, pina coladas, and air conditioning! There was a mini zoo with crocodiles, an ant farm, poison dart frogs (they’ll only kill you if you eat them), turtles, and even a sloth.<\/p>\n
Arenal was a dormant volcano and probably would have been a more fun trip when I was 20 and single and could spend 8-10 hours a day hiking. But the hot springs were nice…<\/p>\n
We also passed by one of a few ‘crocodile’ bridges in Costa Rica. They don’t move much, which probably explains why they’ve lived so long (they are living dinosaurs – 180 million years old), but they are plenty scary to look at.<\/p>\n
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