Three Toes and a Long Walk: February 15th, 2019

Good evening parents,
It's David and Christian here. Today was our first chance to blog and let me tell you, it has been a long, hot and humid two days. Yesterday, we started the day off bright and early, waking up at 5:30 am and eating breakfast at Hotel Brilla Sol. We had different kinds of cereal, fruits, juice and eggs. Before you know it, we were in a van, on our way to Juan Santa Maria airport to ride our little prop planes to Puerto Jimenez boat port. After a short while, we were coasting a long the Golfo Dulce on our way to the Eco Lodge named Saladero. Straight away we got into two groups and split off onto our kayak adventure and garden hike. Christian and I were part of the group that went kayaking. We took a boat about 20 minutes down the coast to a mangrove estuary where Christian and I were already professionals. We got on the kayaks and started to burn instantly. We raced everyone else around us and played bumper cars with them. But during our bumper car game, we learned many things about the mangroves and how to kayak safely. After that, we took our boat back to camp and ate lunch immediately. We were served sausage quesadillas with a side of green salad, which all came from the sustainable environment around us. After lunch, Christian and I took a nice long nap. We woke up and got ready for our afternoon hike. Pepe, our guide, took us on a hike through the forest on the puma trail. On our expedition we sighted many exotic animals. The most interesting ones were the Howler Monkey, Spider Monkey and Three-toed Sloth. There was also a sketchy moment when a baby venomous snake named Fer-de-lance slithered between Noah's legs. After our hike, we came back to camp and ate dinner. We finished our day off with a relaxing presentation given by Harvey, the land owner and went off to bed. Peace out big homies, hope you're enjoying the snow :)