Email from Dan to Family and Friends:
yall!
just sayin hi from Costa Rica
I cant believe its been only a week since the wedding... what a whirlwind.
We left the Yacht Club and crashed at a nice little hotel in the U District, slept for 12 hours, woke up, had lunch with the Swansons and then caught a flight to LA, then a redeye to Miami, then flew over Cuba to Costa Rica, tired and exhausted. We taxid down from the airport to the pacific coast, to a luxurious all inclusive 4 star hotel with a private beach. I´m not sure what we really did there for 3 days... it involved lots of suntanning aka sunburning, reading in the shade, eating gourmet and I really mean gourmet food, drinking at the 3 bars, smoking hand rolled cigars (being rolled by an imported Cuban man in a round hat in the lobby of the hotel) and in general being waited on like a king and queen. Well we had enough of that luxury... its exhausting having nothing to do except sleep eat drink smoke and read books... so we hopped in a cab and then a bus and then another bus/cab like thing and drove over a few dozen potholed washboard road and ended up in the cloud forest at the tip top of the world called Monte Verde, where we are about to spend out 3rd night in a nice little backpackers hostel. Yesterday we went on a ¨canopy tour¨which is pure madness. They set up platforms in the tops of massive rainforest trees and strung really long cables between them in such a way that you hook a caribeener attached to a pulley on one end and a harness on the other and throw yourself into open air and then soar over/thru/under/between the trees, trying to look to both sides to see the incredible views, down to watch the ground flying by at ridiculous speeds, and ahead to try to figure how to land on the next platform without flying off the other side. It was incredible. And you couldnt really fly off the other side but it felt like it. That went on for a few hours.
Ellie found a dog in the hostel that she wants to adopt. Im slowly trying to convince her that its a bad idea. But it is a really really cute dog. We named her Dingo. Right now Ellie is asleep with Dingo curled up next to her.
Tomorrow we are doing a ¨coffee tour¨of a plantation. Supposed to be some the best coffee in the world. I will try to bring yall some. Then we are heading down the other side of the mountain in a jeep-boat-jeep trip to La Fortuna, where we hope to relax in the famed Tabacon Hot Springs before trying to get to the caribean coast. travel can be hard during the rainy season.
Life is hard.
see you in a few weeks! hope you are enjoying your summers!
Well, thanks for tuning in... and thanks again for making my wedding day memorable and special. I love you all.
- Dan Wedge Swanson
ps ellie woke up and informed me that Dingo puked in our bed. gross! thats what we get for feeding her half a pack of bologna.
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