Our last week is here and we do nottttt want to leave:( As much as we love home, we are absolutely in love with this country and the people we have met while here. We have decided to put everything we have into our placements this week so when we say goodbye we will know we have done everything we could do. It is going to be so hard to leave these people that we have come to love and who will continue to need our help. More on our placements and goodbyes later this week….
On a lighter note this weekend was spent in Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean side. While every weekend in Costa Rica has been awesome, we have come to the conclusion that this was our favorite place. The town has a very Caribbean vibe and it felt like we were in an entirely different country. The town is full of funky restaurants and people with dreadlocks riding cruiser bikes. We stayed at a “Hammock Hotel” which was a very costly $5 a night. We slept in a hammock thirty feet from the water with people from all over the world. It was pretty cool:). We spent Saturday in Cahuita National Park on the beach where we we woken up from a nice nap by the terrifying noise Howler Monkey’s make when they become territorial. (Click on the link below for a Youtube video of it). On Sunday we relaxed in small pools created by the coral reef. We will forever refer to this spot as our “happy place”….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ihWw_4aOBY&feature=PlayList&p=2CAE102296D25A24&index=4&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

Pictures Below- Brittney couldn't resist putting up another picture of her kids, Caitlin and Britt enjoyin life on the beach, a pic of us in our "happy place", loungin in our beds/hammocks, and a picture of us earlier this week outside a Museum in San Jose (the capital of Costa Rica).