Coco Beach Costa Rica, Crazy games, and Carnivals – Friday

The morning started out with sunshine and warm weather. What a great way to start the day right? We headed down to get some breakfast and I’m not kidding you when I say that when I looked at how much of a selection that we got to choose from, I literally got goose bumps. Seriously.imageimage Then off to a local village to do some shopping. We found out that when we go white water rafting that we will need water shoes, and of course we all had more water shoes than we needed but they were back in Iowa. So in the taxi we went and within 25 minutes we were being dropped off.  We laughed when we saw how this one local farmer was herding his cattle down the road when we were driving to the village. He is the guy in the back with the bicycle. It’s just a little different than how we do it.imageThe nicest thing about our representative is that they really do take care of you. As we climbed out of the taxi van, we told him what time to pick us up and when we wanted to leave he would be waiting for us. He also knew what we were looking for and asked us to wait and he went into the store while we waited to make sure they had the shoes. Everyone had told us that everyone in Costa Rica was so nice and I have to agree! We decided to shop for about 1 1/2 hours and since we had our shoes right away we now time to kill, so we went down to check out their beaches. The sand in Costa Rica is dark sand so it looks a little different than what we’re used toimageThe weather was warm so there were people swimming and we even saw some people making sand sculptures -check them out.image imageI didn’t know if they had a tent by them to stay in when it got too hot or if they slept there over night, but it really looked like a lot of work! Then we split up from my brother, Jim and his wife Laura. imageThey wanted to do a little bit more shopping and since we really didn’t need anything else, off we went to a local bar to do some people watching. imageSoon we were on our way back to our hotel and found a perfect spot to spend the afternoon watching ‘Crazy Games’ In the pool area. Yup, this is something that I can sure get used to.image

Tonight our hotel had a small carnival theme and we got in just for the night entertainment of dancing and huge costumes that people dressed up in. I was disappointed that my pictures didn’t tuen out so good on the costumes though because they were pretty cool. Then after the show we followed the parade from the show and off we went to the Casino and Disco that was on the hotel property.imageimage

Fireworks lit up the sky

Fireworks lit up the sky

 

 

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