La fortuna - hot springs and sleep

Happy New Year everyone!

We’re a few days in on our trip and I keep thinking we MUST have jet leg (I slept right through very loud fireworks on New Year’s Eve - for about 16 hours straight yesterday and there may be some evidence of me taking another several hour nap today). However Costa Rica is only 1 hour behind Virginia! I think we’re starting to relax a bit!

The hotel where we are staying is a bit of a treat - warm, natural hot springs feed into a pool with swim up bar! We have had our share of Shirley temples and yummy drinks. It’s been raining in a way only found in the movies or in this case, Costa Rica - and the lush landscape is just breathtaking.

Tonight we ventured into la fortuna town and watched some of the best live music, had some amazing arroz con pollo, and some yummy helado afterwards. There was also a very cute dog trying to get our scraps, who reminded us of one of our dogs we’re already missing back home (thank you Auntie GIGi for taking such good care of them!!).

Have a wonderful evening and hope everyone is off to a great 2023. I feel my eyes getting heavy again and don’t think it will be tough to drift off here soon to the sound of rain on the roof and nighttime sounds surrounding our bungalow.

Next week we’ll be headed to some Spanish school and a weeklong home stay in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.

Before then we’re hoping to do some more relaxing, maybe some zip lining, and hoping to hike up around the base of arenal volcano - problem is it’s been so cloudy we haven’t seen the volcano yet! Our bungalow has a direct view but all we see are clouds! Either way it’s all amazing and we’ll take it as it comes! Pura vida!Read more