Bre's Adventures

This evening, Sophie and I went to have dinner at the home of one of the new friends we've gotten to know here. It was a really lovely time! She has a really cool house made of wood and has a really cool natural shape to it. She calls it her gnome home. I wish I had taken a picture, maybe I will do so in the future when we see her again.  We had a lot of nice discussion, and we had a delicious meal and hibiscus tea.  Apologies for the lack of pictures, but here are a few more pictures from a few days later of the pretty sunset and the beautiful spider who lives on our porch :

Sophie and I took a trip for my birthday! This post is going to be a long one with a lot of pictures! And apologies, I thought about splitting this into two parts, but I had already added all the images by then, and it was a lot of work to add these all.   8/27  The first   place we went was Carara National Park. Sophie had arranged for us to get a tour from a guide, and I am really glad we did! When we got there, there were about a half dozen iguanas,which was really neat, they were really big and just watched you.   First, we went down one path, and the guide was able to find a family of howler monkeys. It was really cool! She had a telescope, so we were able to see them really well. There was a baby monkey too, which was really cute!   After that we went down another path through the jungle, and we saw all sorts of creatures. We saw a bunch of spiders, including big orb weavers. We also saw an agouti, which is a really cute large rodent. It look...