A few weekends ago we did the Harmons MS Bike Ride- round two. Thank you again everyone who donated this year! That includes the Blackwoods, my grandma Maggie, Laurie Wall, Brad G., Karen Bueler, my Nana, and the Parrishes!
This year we camped at the park with our friends we rode with. It was the perfect day for a ride. I did the 40 miler with my mom and had some quality mother daughter time. Elliott rode with his team Bike Up Hill and they finished the 100 miler. Amazing.
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| My super hot boyfriend (above) |
Costa Rica 2011
Thursday:
2 plane rides
5 hour layover in Houston
Arrived CR around 10 p.m.
Took a 1 hour shuttle ride to our place.
Friday:
Beach (Playa Longosta)
Cascading pool
Napping
Reading
Met brother's girlfriend Andrea
Saturday:
3 hour van ride east of Tamarindo for the canopy zip-line tour
Steep roads
Broken down van
Saved by a truck
30 minute drive to the first zip-line spot (the most beautiful drive I've ever taken)
Costa Rica mountains
Free roaming cows
Low fog
25 zip-lines through the jungle
11 waterfalls passed
2 repels down waterfalls
1 waterhole to swim in
Dinner overlooking the valley (with a sunset too)
3 hour van ride back west
2 This American Life episodes
Best Day Ever
Sunday:
Estuary tour
Monkeys
Crabs
Fresh Pineapple
Crabs
Fresh Pineapple
Lunch at Joe's (bigger than your ass nachos)
Pool
Dinner at somewhere I can't remember
Monday:Pool
Dinner at somewhere I can't remember
Yoga on the beach
Pool
Family of monkeys making their way through the trees of our condo (with babies on board)
Trying to surf but spending most of our time getting dominated
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| Have you ever seen cooler clouds? |
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| Like I said, getting dominated by the waves |
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| Seriously, those clouds don't even look real |
Tuesday:
Catamaran ride
Snorkeling
Sea Kayaking
Pina Coladas
Met an octopus
Sunset on the ocean
Dinner at Jardin del Eden
Wednesday:
Pool
Taco Stop
(A word about the Taco Stop. We found this place after wandering back from a failed attempt to find a white sand beach. It was just around the corner from the place we stayed. Elliott and I had our first fish tacos, and we're now converted. They were amazing, the best tacos we've ever had. Ever. And their smoothies....oh.... banana, watermelon, mango. They were the best smoothies we've ever had as well. The place is owned by a few young Argentines. This is the best place we ate. Hence going back every day for the rest of the trip.)
Thursday:
Boat ride to dive spot
Scuba Diving at the Catalina Islands off the west coast
Amazing colorful fish, rays, octupus, eels, 2 sharks (who were hiding in the rocks-they are very shy)
Taco Stop
Pool
Dinner at some local restaurant (where we were terrorized by an oversized moth)
Friday:
ATV tour through the jungle
Outlook over Playa Blanco
Lola's Cafe
Meeting Lola (the i-don't-even-know-how-heavy local pet pig who likes to take the occasional dip on the ocean)
Nachos (which are in the running for best Nachos ever)
Smoothies from Taco Stop
Pool
Local wood oven pizza (La Esquina)
Frisbee on the beach
Afternoon rainstorm (first of the trip-lucky us)
Taco Stop
Pool (and accompanying action shots)
Dinner at a local wood oven pizza place (La Esquina)
Packing
Late night dip in the pool
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| We all missed on these high fives one about 0.5 seconds later |
Sunday:
Hour van ride to the airport
2 plane rides
One 4 hour layover
Elliott saw Andrew Luck (a college football player I guess?)
Back to SLC around 11 p.m.
Saw Paul Millsap (Utah Jazz basketball player)
At this point we are all exhausted and we're at that point where all you want to do is crawl in bed. En route to our car (on the shuttle), right as I was thinking of our insanely comfortable bed, a woman had a seizure. Her family slowly lowered her onto the floor, laid down her pillow, and informed us she was epileptic. I already was feeling extremely grateful for the trip we had just taken and all the activities we were able to enjoy, but this was quite the reminder of how lucky we truly are to have healthy bodies that allow us to do all the things we love (as well as the simple things like driving).
The journey was long and tiring (15 hour traveling day) and it took a toll on our toes. Yes, our toes. Elliott stubbed his on the airplane, rolled over them with the 46 pound suitcase, and then if that wasn't enough, I then rolled over them again with the same suitcase. When we finally got home and I was minutes away from that bed I'd been thinking about for the past few hours, I jammed my toes into the tile step in our bathroom. Why is it so frustrating when you stub your toes? I partly just feel stupid because it happened, and then on top of that, it just hurts. really. bad.
On the bright side, our garden is thriving and it looks like we are ready to harvest some romaine lettuce and red lettuce! We now have buds on our tomato and pepper plants. Our strawberry plant, however, looks pretty sad.
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| If you look closely, there's a little green pepper in there |
But the trip was amazing.
Beth, your trip looked soooo amazing! I'm seriously beyond jealous! and those clouds are so cool! looks like a fun trip!! Love the pics!
ReplyDeleteps. The pic of that pig reminded me of a story Connor told me about his Peru mission. The villagers were going to sacrifice this HUGE pig to feed everyone, but when they cut open its stomache, worms shot of it! Connor said there was so many worms in the pig, that it made a hissing sound! so nasty!