Welcome to Costa Rica

It's day 6 and I'm having a blast!! We landed in San Jose about 8 and spent one night there. It was there that we had our first traditional Costa Rican meal of Cassado which is beans, rice, salad and a meat. The next morning we got up at 5 and headed for Cahuita. Cahuita is a small town on the Caribbean ocean where our guide Ludrick is from. We stayed at Spencer's seaside lodge which is literally feet from the beach. They had a hammock on every tree and even on the downstairs and upstairs porches.

The first thing we did was head down to a local restaurant and grab lunch...more Cassado. I got mine with chuleta (pork). It was amazing!

Day 2 was a hike down a nature trail where we saw our first sloth..or as Ludrick calls it...a slooth.  We also saw a crab raccoon a lizard and some leaf cutter ants. I also got to eat a termite and drink water from a plant. It's in the ginger family so the water was very sweet.

 That night we went to a local beach very close to the Panama border to patrol for sea turtles and got to eat dinner with locals. Patrolling the beach was not a pleasant stroll. We had to be off the beach by midnight so we were in a bit of a rush. That was also the first night we got rained on. We spent at least 20 minutes under a tree...bonding. Our first two days in Costa Rica were a whirlwind but we were already having so much fun.