Semana Santa! - Arenal! :)

So from wed - sat i was at arenal for semana santa :) the grou that went were...
evans and cristof, jayda, alyssa, gen, erin, and I. thats us at the beggining right before going to the waterfall. so we got there on wed and we just kinda relaxed and chilled and figured out our game plan. we decided to make our own food.

that was our first meal! it costs about a dollar each ish lol
after we went to the rope swing! that was super fun!!

went here last sem but it was so much funer this one!

pretty as ever! and than we came back and learned a new card game called up and down the river. it was super fun and we ended up playing it a lot. and i mean a lot. lol. the next day we had a breakfast which was awesome for being in a hostel, delicious and healthy. than we went up to a waterfall area!

thats our happy group at the entrance!

so pretty! quite a hike but once there it was so gorgeous!

thats the waterfall. you tried to get close to it but it was so powerful that the waves pushed you back so you couldnt get close to it which is prolly a good thing because it prolly could kill you.
after that we went up the cerro chato to go hike up that volcano which is no longer active and has a lagoon at the top!

it was a killer hike. the hardest ever and it was straight up hill and not the easist path to climb up but we got a great view out of the deal!

thats arenal which we could see pretty decent from cerro chato. it was really cool acutally because it was super cloudy and we couldnt see but when all of our group made it up there, it cleared up for a few min so we could see it than it clouded back over again. it was so cool!

such a pretty lagoon at the top! me and erin swam out to the middle of the volcano :) haha.
and than we hiked back down. it was super fast compared to going up and than we just relaxed for the rest of the day as we were all super exhausted and we played up and down the river again and made our dinner which costs under 2$ each person.

that was our 2nd meal.
the next day we rented bikes and were gonna go bike to the "poor man" hot springs but it was a lot of up hill and than we were so hot already we decided to turn around and not go anymore. we went to the rope swing instead.

it being friday it was super busy. and i mean full. i have never seen it so full ever! but it was nice just to relax and cool down. after we walked around town a bit, played up and down the river again and made our dinner again which was under 2$ as well per person.

so gourmet! so good! que rico!
after we played the same card game and than had rice pudding and tim tam slams! :) so delicious and good and just awesome.

thats the rice pudding! and it was yummy! we shared it with some other girls we met that were staying at the hostel with us. they acutually were at a different school in san jose so that was kinda cool to meet them and get to know them a bit. they even took the bus back with us.
and so than we read narnia and went to bed. the next day we just relazed and got ready to go. our bus was at 12:40 and there was a huge line up of ppl. they just kept selling tickets and it was def overcrowded so a bunch of ppl had to wait for another one. we managed to get a seat all together.

o ya, handicap spot was ours! we got to sit on the floor and we were able to play cards and it was the same game as usual. it was fun though and we kinda wanted to do that anyways so it worked out very well!

it was however super congested and cozy but it was fun. and than we came home and had communium and hung out at the fire and that was that. than i went with cody and katie to get pizza and we ended up watching xmen and that was fun than we watched taken and i went to bed quarter to 1...haha but it was good bonding time. and that was my weekend! cheers! :)