Lip Gloss in Costa Rica

This trip to Costa Rica was in February 2007, right before my

husband and I separated and divorced.  I planned the trip and the

first stop of our eight day adventure was about 45 minutes from San Juan. 

We stayed at Vista del Valle, which was located

on a coffee plantation.  This is a photo of our little bungalow!

Carlos, the Cowboy took us for a ride.  It was great fun...

because we got to gallop when we wanted and he

did tricks for us.  He even stood up on his saddle while riding!

There was a pool there and although my husband never gets drunk,

he drank too much that first day at the pool. He asked me for

some chap stick, so I took advantage of the situation

and handed him some of my "tinted" lip gloss.

His lips were shiny red and later he wondered why

a gay couple (two guys) were staring at him so intently!

He's a notorious prankster...so I felt no remorse! In the past, he's

turned the hot water off at the source while I was in the shower...brrrr...

and carried out lots of other funny and some...not so funny jokes

at my expense. Last week he had a guy at work photoshop

a picture of one of our friends, "Barry" into the movie ad

for "Brokeback Mountain", called it Brokeback Barry"

 and put it on facebook!

We drove to Arenal Volcano and spent an afternoon at the

"Tabacon Hot Springs", which was amazing.  It was a

natural hot springs that wound around through the

jungle.  You could climb in anywhere and there

was a view of the active volcano!

The photo above that looks like Switzerland is actually of Arenal Lake.

After visiting the Cloud Forest, we drove to our last spot, the

lovely "Manual Antonio" National Park.  These are

photos from our balcony.

Hope you enjoyed and don't use your wife's lip gloss!!