Monteverde

We took the shuttle yesterday morning from Arenal to Santa Elena (Monteverde). We're staying at this place called Casa Tranquillo... SO CUTE. Its an amazing little hostel with 2 double beds, a private room for us and bathroom, towels and soap, free breakfast, free coffee all day, community kitchen area usage for just $10 a night. Which you have to imagine we've often stayed in rooms with dorm beds with 4 to 6 people in bunk beds without towels and community bathrooms and often no breakfast. It was a steal...and such a cute little place. So we were thrilled about that... We did the serpantarium yesterday which was an exhibit for snakes in Costa Rica (a couple fer-de-lance coral snakes). It was pretty cool. Then we did a night hike which we were thoroughly disappointed with. It was not very intense. You are supposed to sometimes see the bigger night life animals like armadillos or certain monkey type animals or even cats (very rare) but there was a REALLY loud annoying girl from california...we were SO ANNOYED. We definately gonna see anything with her talking and her questions were SO stupid. like... what eats birds here? or are there frogs here? or to spiders eat other spiders? Because basically all we saw were insects. A big walking stick and a few huge turantulas we're basically it (although the turantulas were cool) So we were disappointed after that.
This morning, however, we did the extreme canopy zipline tour which was amazing. It was about 2 hours of doing ziplines of various lengths and also a Tarzan swing which was like a long drop then big swing out... really intense actually. The last zipline (about 1000meters long i think...) you could do the zipline superman style which of course i tried. It was amazing. We got tons of pics and videos which we'll be uploading soon. We've loved monteverde...though its raining right now... but we'll be heading to Tamarindo on a shuttle tomorrow morning (big beach scene on the pacific side just a few hours north of Montezuma). So I'll catch you all later!