Con Madre (With Mom)

So, our night in Puntarenas was even more ghetto than we had expected. The hotel we were staying in was just filled with sketchy characters, one of which wished us luck for our night there...Our fan was broken, so our room was a sauna, and Nathan discovered a large rat, as well as someone apparently locked in their room. We survived in any case, and headed to Alajuela first thing on Sunday morning.
After booking a hotel, and seeing Nathan off to the hospital again (this time for a plum pit that seemed to lodge its way in his digestive tract), Jesse and I bussed to the airport to greet my mom, and Connor.
They were both very happy to be in Costa Rica and even though they said they weren't tired, they felt burned out on return to our hotel in Alajuela. That night, we wandered the town a little bit, and got some eats, then headed to bed relatively early.
This morning, we got up at 5am and got ready to catch a bus from San Jose at 6:30. The bus we hopped on was going to Heredia first, so unsure if we would make our bus in time, we got off and took a taxi to the terminal...our taxi driver wasn't even too sure of where we were going, but we did make our bus, and after all of that, the bus ended up stopping in Alajuela anyway. Meh...live and learn.
A very scenic drive up to Monteverde, and upon arrival at 11:30, we checked into Pension Santa Elena, and then booked our Zip-line Canopy tour. It was just as fun as the first time, if not more so, and worth every penny. After our adrenaline rushes of zipping over the cloud forest, we went for pizza, and then walked through the forest, and across suspension bridges.
It was an exhausting, yet fun day. We killed the rest of the day by just chilling at our cabin, reading, playing cards and making some killer nachos.
Tomorrow we are off to La Fortuna to see the most active Volcan Arenal!

Photos: Me waterfall jumping in Montezuma...Lazing in our hammocks in Peurto Jimenez...Mom and I in our zipline canopy gear...Jesse and Connor on the suspension bridge walk...Jesse Gnarlin out