Manuel Antonio

Yesterday I took my first day trip to the beach!  We went to Manuel Antonio where the National Park is.  In this park, they have animals in their natural habitat: sloths, lizards, iguanas, monkeys, crabs, insects, birds, etc.  It was very cool.  Our tour guide used to live on the property, so he told us about his childhood home and his experience with the park area since he was little.  He showed us a picture of his home when it used to still stand on the property, and he showed us a memorial in the park that was made in honor of his father who was killed by a falling tree in the park when our tour guide was only 11 years old.  It was special to have a tour guide who knew so much about the park that he literally had lived in it before it was the park.

While we walked through, we were very glad that we had paid for the tour because otherwise we wouldn't have seen anything.  When we walked through, literally this is all we saw:

This is what our tour guide saw and pointed out to us:

After seeing the park, we went to the beach which was also gorgeous.  The sand was so fine and the landscape was just beautiful.

We went to lunch, and then hit some of the souvenir shops on the beach and hung out on the beach a little more.

It was a great day :)