White Sands, Pools and Sunsets!

What an amazing getaway. This trip was right before Christmas but haven't had time to blog about it yet. It was pretty cheap with all meals included. We all took a public bus ride that was almost three hours. It wasn't too bad except they also sell tickets for people to stand in the middle of the aisle. So that made an interesting trip!

This was one of the views from the bus! It was very pretty and a little scary taking all these sharp curves and one lane bridges in this huge bus. 

Cooper was a little tired from the bus ride so he caught a luggage ride to the room.

This is one of the two beaches we could go to. The closest one had darker sand and the one that we would catch a little tram to and ride about 5 minutes had white sand! It was just so nice to be at the beach, but we did enjoy the white sand one more!

This is one of three pools. The kids pool was amazing. Cooper could touch through the entire thing. It even had that little thing in the corner of the picture that had water coming down from it and you could walk through it. Cooper loved the pool!

We didn't really fix Cooper's hair this way! He was just so hot and sweaty that it stayed that way after playing with it. Kinda cute though. What do you think?

This is what Avery thought of the beach!

She woke up not knowing what to think. Can you tell she has a very frightened look on her face!

Avery's first step into the sand. Not really sure what to think about it. 

Should I cry or should I smile?

Cooper liked Avery's float more than his. I think he likes to take anything she has though.

Two gook lookin' guys if I may say so!

The kids loved watching the monkey's at breakfast! There were five or six of them around at that time!  Cooper and Darin could have stood there all morning watching them but we had to get to the pool.

This was the gang building a mermaid on Jake. Well Cooper kept saying, "Look mommy, we're making Ariel."  He didn't quite know what the chest was so he kept putting sticks in there. It was pretty funny!

Avery enjoyed sitting and the stroller while just feeling the breeze and looking at the ocean.

We then put here in the turtle float and let her lay out in the sun. She loved getting to sunbath.

A family picture! Well, you can't tell it is Avery but she was so fascinated at the sand and water that she wouldn't look up. So this is the best we could get.

I am not sure why Cooper had these on. He would not even think about going under the water.

Ok, he must have only been wearing it to make a cute picture! Thanks Coop!

Besides monkeys, iguanas, lizards, birds...... there were also raccoons. This one came to the pool and decided to steal Cooper's banana off of the chair. They were not scared of people at all. One even came and sniffed the leg of one of our friends. I didn't like that part of all. They are just nasty animals. 

I did not even bring a bathing suit to Costa Rica. So thanks Crystal for letting me borrow one.

The baby pool was really amazing. It had a slope that Avery loved to sit and crawl on. Perfect for her to get to play in the water as well.

Well it was time to leave and Cooper was very sad about it. He thought we were moving again. So when we did get back home he said that he wanted to go back to the other house. Poor guy thinks we are always moving now. Nothing that ice cream can't help calm down and make everything be alright.