Gavin and Onyx Week 2 in Costa Rica

From Gavin:

My mothers birthday was on May 25th and we did a lot of special things. For example we went to the beach and I taught her to surf. We also made some noki that night for her birthday dinner. The noki had meat, onions and a lot of other things. Noki is a pasta dish that we had to hand roll the pasta.  

This week we went on a nature walk and we saw a lot of animals. For example we saw lots of different kinds of centipedes as well as poison frogs.  After we did the nature walk we went to lunch and a restaurant and I had a burger with french fries.Once we finished lunch we drove to this place were there was supposed to be a beautiful waterfall, but to get  there you have to go on a two to two and a half  kilometer walk which was absolute hell. I would not recommend this if you are not physically fit or do not  have really strong legs. There are lots of hills and dangerous turns especially when it is raining.

In conclusion, this week was also really fun. We got to see lots of animals and we got to meet one of my mom's new friends. We got to go on hanging  bridges and go zip-lining.  

From Onyx:

I’m working out each morning to prepare myself to get stronger for my next hockey season. I’m being forced to speak up more and be more outgoing and talk more and I prefer the opposite, to be more laid back and quiet.

Week 2s weekend wasn’t the best. On Saturday we went another nature walk and it was similar to the first one we went on, saw animals like monkeys, bats and parrots up in trees, a lot of green, rivers and a lot of walking. After we finished we went to a mountain path to walk to a waterfall. We walked for about 45 minutes before making it. It was a lot of dirt and going up and down steep hills and stairs. It was also raining but there were leaves blocking the rain from hitting us. It also made it dark because of that but it was actually sunny. When we got to the waterfall we were all very tired and sweaty.  While we were walking back the was a small pool of water then we had to step over but since it was wet I slipped a little and my whole foot got wet and it really made me upset. After that we all were too tired to talk and just went home and relaxed the rest of the day and Sunday. 

Turns out we didn't actually relax. My mom and I went to the local supermarket and local grocery store for food. After that we got home and dressed up to go to the beach. We didn’t go to our local beach though, we went to a different beach about 20 minutes away. We were there for about 1-2 hours before it started raining and us driving home. When we got home it wasn’t rainy by where we were staying so we got in the pool for a bit. After that we made dinner. We made a dish called “Noki”.