Family Pictures 2010

I did our own family pictures a couple weeks ago. It was cold, wet, and miserable. But we wanted the fall colors and knew they were going to gone so we went for it.

What Has Jake Been Up to?

One may ask oneself what has Jake been up to lately?

Latest Piece of Art

He's taking a life anatomy drawing class the next steps are creating a sketch of just the muscles and then the skeleton

Latest Injury

So Basically Jake has been up to the same ol' same ol'. Making art and getting hurt while having fun

Costa Rica Pics

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We navigated class III & IV rapids

(picture not actually us, camera not waterproof)

Best part of the trip!

In La Fortuna we....

Saw this volcano called Arenal

Ate Fresh Pinapple

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and We went ziplining(not actually us)

Didn't want to bring my camera on the zip line and didn't want to pay 20 dollars for a cd so Jake and I will have our mental pictures until we lose our memories

We saw this guy on the road in San Gerardo. Or at least this is what we think we saw. It jumped right into our path and stared at us and we stared back at it and then it was gone....

The Roca Dura Hotel- Where we stayed before and after our hike. There was a path right by our room/cave that went down to the river

The Big Hike (Round Trip from hotel 44 kms)

There's a story to the punching......It's a hike, Nicole gets bored so her imagination goes a little beyond.....She would punch each km marker until Jake asks her what she is doing. Her explanation-There is a PNCh on each marker which in my mind creates the word PUNCH so I punch it! So we punched each marker as they came!

Another Nicole thought process story- Costa Rica is BIG TIME Scenic! Beauty everywhere you look. Anyways....In my head-As the hike continued onward things looked a lot like the planet Pandora in Avatar. I wondered if James Cameron (the director) visited the rain forest for research. He probably didn't have to hike through it carrying his own gear....He may have even had a ATV or a litter to carry him..... 

Said out loud- "James Cameron, eat your heart out."

Jake starts rolling on the ground, laughing.  Thus born catch phrase for the rest of the trip.

The Summit of Mount Chirripo 12, 533 ft

The last couple of days we played/recovered at La Playa Dominical. We got sunburned but it turned into some beautiful tans that lasted a couple of days

There were two types of iguanas that we saw. This guy and then the bigger green iguana