Costa Rica – Day 2 

By Taylor

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Today was a big day. In the morning our guide, Juan, who lives here invited us on a tour to a water fall. Our guide showed us to a trash can, when we looked inside it, there was a Boa Constrictor that made a sound like “hiiiiiii”, a hissing sound.

We first went down to the sand and there was one oasis, and oasis is a giant puddle of water on the beach. We walked, and walked, and walked. It was so hot, the sun was beating down and it was hard. Then we came to another oasis. My parents and the guide jumped in and started swimming with their clothes on. I just dipped my feet.

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We hiked on, and on, it was so hot. We just walked and walked until we came to another oasis. Then the guide told us to go behind the oasis down to the stream. I walked in the stream and most of the others too. Then we saw a spider monkey up in the trees. We walked through the river until we came to the water fall. We climbed up rocks so we could get to the middle of the waterfall. The rocks were slippery, it was kind of hard, but we did it. Then we took showers in the waterfall, all but me. We played in there for a while then we went down to the beach again. The hot sun beat down on us again. We had to wear shoes, or the hot sand would burn our feet.

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We came to the second oasis that we had been to. Then this time everybody jumped in with their clothes on and started swimming, except for my dad who was off at the other point when we started swimming.

Finally, he came and we were all ready to go on. We walked on the hot sand. I was walking alone for a while until my dad caught up with me. We walked along the tree line and it was much better than being by the waves. It was fun walking with my dad.

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Finally we came to the last oasis, 35 steps and we were at the trail to head up to the house. We came in, it was so hot, we decided to jump into the pool. We swam, and swam, and swam. My dad needed to go to soccer, but we still swam. We swam for an hour longer. Then mom told us we had to go in for showers. We did it and then we played a game, 5 crowns. Then it was time for dinner, we had a nice dinner then we went to bed.