Jaco, Costa Rica

Alex and I were in San Jose Wednesday night and Thursday because Alex had to install a machine Thursday. After he got off work, we came down here to Jaco beach. We got in around 7:00pm so we explored the hotel a little bit, but it was exciting to wake up to this view out our window!
There is a big pool and a kid pool, Tennis courts, a grassy area and then TONS of beach!

This was my first time actually standing on an Ocean beach, so that was pretty cool. We walked on the beach for a while. There are tons of hotels right along it so we saw a lot of people swimming, playing with their kids and dogs and laying out.

Then we swam in the ocean, which was fun, but exhausting :) There are constantly pretty good sized waves coming in so we spent most of our time body surfing, jumping over waves, or getting eaten by them :) It is fun for about 20 minutes at a time but then it gets tiring, your mouth, nose and throat burn and it tastes nasty! It was nice being able to go from the Ocean to the pool and just relax for a bit!

The sunset on the beach was absolutely beautiful! It was funny to see how many people go sit on the beach about 45 minutes before it sets and then as soon as it goes down, the beach clears out.

After we watched the sunset we went to a little restaurant on the way to downtown Jaco, it was pretty good!

During the day we thought we found Downtown Jaco, but Saturday night we actually found it :) There are a lot of cute little shops and people EVERYWHERE! The people drive really crazy here and I think pedestrians and bikers are even crazier! lol.

Saturday morning we got up and went on an adventure ziplining through the jungle! We went to Herradura for it, which took about 10 minutes to get to on a shuttle from our Hotel. I was REALLY nervous the night before and when we were getting ready to go, but I think the scariest part was standing and waiting on the platforms between the lines. There were 12 lines and 10 platforms. The platform we took our picture on had the coolest view, but there were some AWESOME views when you were out in the clearings zip-lining. I tried to take a video and failed, but Alex got a good video on the last line, which was the longest and fastest(I will post it on here later). Alex also hung upside down on one of the lines that you can either free-style or hang upside down. There is also a video of him coming to the platform :) Crazy kid!!

We got done with that around 11am, so then we came back and swam for a bit and just hung out. It was a really fun and relaxing day. Then that night we had dinner at Jaco Taco, which was pretty tasty and then walked around for a while in downtown Jaco. It is definitely a tourist area, but there is a lot of cool artwork. !

Today (Sunday) we are just relaxing and might go for a swim and then checkout around 1pm and head back to San Jose. Alex is working Monday and Tuesday and then I think either Wednesday or Thursday we will go up to Arenal Volcano and then we head back to the U.S. on Friday morning! :)

I will post more about other adventures as they come!