Jaco Beach

On Monday of our trip, we took a cab back into Jaco to play at the beach. At first, we decided we weren't going to rent boogie boards because we were scheduled for surfing lessons the next day. After playing in the water for a bit and seeing how big the waves were, we decided to walk a couple of blocks to rent a couple of boards. My dad, my sister and I walked to find some but discovered you had to have a credit card or pass port to get them. So, we walked back down to the beach got a credit card, waked back and rented 2 boogie boards and then walked back to the beach. The waves were a lot bigger than ones we have done in the past, making for some good riding (if you timed it just right) and some good rolling in the waves (if you didn't time it right!)



Megan, Jabin and Christian playing in the waves.

There were these weird little snake/worm things on the beach.



 

My mom and dad.

The parentals enjoying the sun!

There were snails and their trails along the beach too.

Christian and I heading out to try and catch a wave.

Getting ready to face a wall of waves!

 

 

Jaco beach waves.

Christian's beach selfie with my mom's camera.

Christian and Jabin riding a wave.

There were some crazy waves!

 

Don't ask!

 

After a few hours of being in the sun and being rolled around by some monster waves, we decided to walk to Subway for some lunch. Next to the Subway was a fruit stand, so after lunch, Christian went over and had a fresh smoothie made with mango, banana and kiwi. It was delicious!

 

Shopping Jaco

Sunday, after breakfast, we took a taxi into a little beach town named Jaco (like taco but with an "h" at the beginning). We walked up one side of the street and down the other shopping in the little stores. We found souvenirs to take home to the boys (hand painted swords) and other trinkets. We stopped in for some ice cream to cool down.

Christian and his passion fruit had a breakfast.

 

It looked like fish eggs but were actually sweet, but had a weird texture.

My dad so excited about shopping in the heat and humidity!

A look down the street of the shops.

A lot of the shops looked like this. They were open and had things hung all over. You were really lucky if you found one with air conditioning!

 

There were lots of little huts around that had razor wire all along the fences. The houses were similar. They looked like what we would use as sheds and had bars on the windows and the razor wire around the outside on the fences.

 

 

There were little geckos on the ceilings at night that would catch little bugs flying around. They weren't in our rooms, luckily!


For dinner that night we walked down to the marina and ate dinner at an Italian restaurant with my grandparents. They had yummy bread to dip in olive oil and balsamic vinegar and I ordered the yummiest lasagna I've ever had.

Ready to go to dinner.

 

 

Our crew at dinner.

 

My delicious lasagna!



Christian loved the balsamic and oil so much he tried to suck it up through a hard piece of bread that looked like a straw!

On our way back to the resort after dinner, we found these two little guys: a baby gecko and a frog.

Once again, we played cards until late at night.

The sunset that night was beautiful!

Zip line (day 2)

On Saturday, we had a full day. We woke up, ate breakfast and then walked down to the harbor where all the yachts were kept. There were some crazy big boats down there! We walked around the shops and then came back to the resort.

This was a tunnel of trees we had to walk through to get to the harbor.
 

 

Walking through the tree tunnel.

Christian found this not so little beetle on our walk. Thankfully he was dead!

 

 

 


Some of the yachts at the harbor.

 

The guys putting out the vibe while they checked out a map of the area.

After exploring the harbor, we went back to the resort and decided to hang out in the pool for a bit.

Seesters!

 

 

grandpa and grandma Foulger and my uncle Kent and Aunt Lorie enjoying the pool.

Hanging out.

We had a slight collision with a little boy that was behind us that we totally didn't see!

 

 

Lunch pool side.

Around 1, we changed and got ready to head zip lining. We had a short bus ride to the middle of jungle where we got harnessed up and hiked up into the trees where we zip lined from 6 different platforms up in the trees. We saw monkeys, bats, huge black ants with gold butts, and leaf cutter ants in a long line carrying pieces of green leaves on their backs.

Before we got all our gear on for the zip lining!

 

All harnessed up and ready to go!

The trees were huge!

Into the jungle we go!

If you look up towards the top of the tree you can see one of the platforms that we zip lined from.

 That night after sweating under the jungle canopy, we suited up again and went down to the beach at our resort.  We were all sweating like crazy with the hard hats and gloves on!


Christian and Jabin hanging out in the ocean.



photo bomber, Jabin!

A look back at our resort from the ocean.

Toes in the sand!

Sunset at the beach at our resort.

We tried to take some pictures as the sun was going down, but we learned we weren't very graceful!


That night, we ordered pizza hut pizza and ate and hung out playing cards until late with my grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins.

Pizza time!

grandpa, grandma, Jabin and Christian eating some dinner.

 

 

Lots of photo-bombing going on this night!

This was the most delicious (and affordable) coconut ice cream! We ordered it like every night and ate it while we played cards!