The zip line was absolutely amazing. It's not the biggest one in Costa Rica by far, but Ben and I had a blast. It consisted of a total of 11 "zips" with a visit to a waterfall after the 6th and a beautiful view of Montezuma Beach from the top of the platform for the 8th. The waterfall visit was my favorite part. Ben and I were the first ones in the water, and we led the way - most of the rest of the group was pretty quick to follow once they saw how much fun we were having on the rope swing. Ben harnessed his old diving skills and executed a perfect backflip off the swing. We were glad we saved the zip line for near the end of the trip - we were sore!
The town we stayed in - Montezuma - is about a 5 hour trip by van and ferry from the airport in Alejuela. Both times we've arranged transportation through Montezuma Expeditions. It was fun this time having 8 people because we got a party van to ourselves. On the way back to Alejuela at the end of our trip, as we were coming off the express way the brakes on the van went out. Thanks to extremely quick thinking on the part of the driver who pulled the emergency brake, and a little bit of luck, everyone ended up being ok. We pulled over to the side of the road and waited for another van to pick us up and take us the last 20 minutes to Alejuela. I feel like I should have more commentary on our near death experience, but other than being very happy not to have been pancaked by a semi or thrown off a cliff, I don't have too many other thoughts on the situation.
On the way back to The Bahamas, Ben and I had a layover in Miami. Our flight out of Costa Rica was delayed and Tristan and Erin and Seth and Justine ended up missing their flight to Chicago and joined us for dinner in Miami at an interesting steak joint. After two weeks of fish we were all excited to eat large portions of meat, although we were a little taken a back when we walked in and were asked "Cuantos personas?" We answered back seis before realizing we were back in the US and probably could speak English.
The next morning, Ben and I had a pretty busy day before our flight. I needed to get a prescription filled, and Ben really wanted to get a haircut. We didn't quite have time for the haircut, but we did find, what turned out to be an excellent Cuban Restaurant for lunch. We used the "Around Me" app on the iphone and everything coming up at first was fast food, but finally a Cuban restaurant a few miles away came up and the reviews looked ok so we decided to check it out. As soon as we pulled up we knew it was going to be authentic - there was a long line of Cubans hanging out in front drinking coffee. The winning dish was a black bean soup which was beyond excellent.
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