Monteverde

Hola!
I went zip lining this weekend and it was AMAZING! We went to this place called 100% Aventura and it was so cool! They had 9 lines, a rappel, and a tarzan swing and we got to do the last (and longest line) superman style! It was sooo much fun! I was terrified of the tarzan swing and the superman style one but after I did it, it was amazing! There are videos and pictures on facebook! Anyway it was a nearly 5 hour bus ride to Monteverde from San Jose and the trip up was uneventful except for the part where we overslept and almost missed the bus. That was probably my fault as Kathleen came home and couldn't get her key to work at 2 and I didn't want to wake up at 4 to wake her up so she could take a shower so I gave her my alarm.....didn't think that it wasn't a very loud alarm and it didn't wake her up. So at 5:30 Emily and Yolanda were yelling outside our window (we were supposed to be at the bus station at 6) So we got dressed and ready in record time and ran down the road and Emily caught a taxi and we got to the station...only it was the wrong one! But a nice tico that worked there helped us get another cab and explained to him exactly where we needed to go! So we made the bus and all was well! We got to the hotel and explored the small town then ate dinner at the Tree House restaurant which is a restaurant built around a tree! It was kind of expensive but I'd found it a long time ago on a yahoo list of the coolest restaurants so we decided to go!
The ride back was more eventful. At the stop at the airport a couple got off and I wasn't paying much attention until I heard yelling in Spanish and some lady cussing out the driver in English and realized it was our bus that had the problem. Apparently the lady had put her bags under the bus on the driver's side which I guess by law here can't be opened until the final stop so if you're getting off before then you have to put it on the other side. I'm pretty sure that lady didn't speak Spanish and said she was going to San Jose so they put them on that side since the last stop was San Jose-the airport isn't actually in San Jose. Anyway she got the police involved and got her bags, holding us up for at least 30 minutes. Then we got back and it was dark and all the taxi drivers line up and then take you to where they parked because there's like no parking really close and we got a pirate taxi so we refused to get in because it was a black car and legit taxis here are red with a yellow triangle on the door. So we finally found a taxi driver and on the way back there were a ton of drunks and prostitutes and crazy people in the street and the driver almost hit a girl and then some guy jumped in front of the taxi and started juggling oranges but he wasn't good so they kept landing on the taxi. Finally, we all got home safe and sound! Suffice it to say, I never care to see downtown San Jose at night ever again!
All in all, it was a fun trip despite the little mishaps!
Love,
Chelsey