We wanted to go some place where you could hold some monkeys. Now granted there were a lot of monkeys around our hotel, but they weren’t something that you should be grabbing to hold. I mean, we never did get any travel shots so we wanted to be careful. Our tour representative gave us a suggestion to go to this local zoo. There we could hold some snakes (yea, that wasn’t going to happen) and also they have tame monkeys to hold. Great idea! So after we ate breakfast, off to get the camera. We took a shuttle bus and once we got to the zoo, we realized that it wasn’t really the type of zoo that we were used to. It kind of looked like it was maybe a private one and we did find out that only two guys were running it. But we started to look around and found quite a bit of stuff to look at.
I think our guide at the zoo really liked the snakes because he talked a lot about them. I wanted to say the best day for a snake for me is underneath the lawn mower, but I’m thinking he might have gotten offended. 
After we looked around for awhile, we found ourselves in front of the white faced monkeys and the spider monkey.
We’ve been hearing that the white faced monkeys are really mean, and it didn’t take long until we found that to be true. Daryl was trying to take a picture of some of the little babies of the white faced monkey and a couple of monkeys just took off full force and charged at him. Daryl laughed, but it was one of those nervous kind of laughs so I’m thinking that he got a little scared. I know that I did! Then we got to hold Lulu. It was a boy monkey and only a couple of years old. They got him when he was only 2 weeks old from a local when the mother was killed by an electric wire. They fed him with a bottle and he was really pretty cute. I was expecting him to smell bad and I picked out some monkey clothes if they stunk when we were done, but it wasn’t bad at all. 
He absolutely loved Laura though. The rest of us tried to hold him but he always wanted to go back to her.
We learned that Lulu had to be away from the white faced monkeys because they bit his finger off. OK, they ARE mean! We were all having a good time with Lulu and he was starting to play a little bit more. Then he bit hard enough to draw blood. Do you think it’s too late to get those shots? We really had a good laugh the rest of the week about the monkey bite and was hoping that no one was going to get monkey pox. But secretly, it’s probably not a good thing to get bit do you think?
We got back to our hotel around noon and we ate again. (are you seeing a pattern?) then off to the adjoining hotel to visit some new friends that we met earlier. 
We met them in our hotel the very first day going to the airport, we hung out with them at the airport when we learned that they were on the same two flights as us to Atlanta and Costa Rica, and then they were right by our hotel. We had a fun afternoon hanging out at both pools just having some drinks and soaking in some rays.
The temperature we heard was around 96, but it sure wasn’t bad at all. After we got cleaned up and ate supper…. off to the beach we went. Since we had a private beach, we heard that some of the guests at the hotel were seeing turtles coming up at night to lay their eggs. How cool would that be? So off to get our water shoes on with our dresses, yea.. not a good look. But we really wanted to see if we could find some turtles. It was so unreal. The moon was almost full, it was midnight, the temperature was wonderful, and as we stood on the beach hearing the waves, it was so hard to believe that we were in Costa Rica looking for sea turtles laying eggs. Crazy isn’t it?
We did see some tracks in the sand, but we didn’t see any turtles tonight. We’re going to look again tomorrow night. Hopefully we’ll have better luck.