Costa Rica

I am currently in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Surprise! We are with Taylor's family, on a trip that was a surprise for his father's 60th birthday. This has been a huge secret for the past 6 months, and we are all relieved that it turned out so well--the morning of their departure Rob did not know he was going anywhere. Anyway, Taylor and I flew up here from Chile and met the rest of the family and the tour group, and the trip has been great. We've been to the coastal rainforest, to a volcano, to the cloud forest, and tomorrow we are going to the beach. We fly back to Santiago on Sunday night, at which point 2 weeks of vacation will be over and I'll start my new spanish classes and we'll start wrapping up life in Santiago and preparing for our move to Peru. What fun!