One lost tube of toothpaste and a tent later

So over the last few day I headed to the south east corner of Costa Rica and relaxed at a backpackers place called Rocking J´s which pretty much was a shed with hammocks, tents and campsites. We chose to camp for 3 nights and got used to the hard floor. Here we met some interesting folks from Belgium, the US and portugal to hang out, relax, and go out with. It definitely had a Jamaican vibe due to the descendants of and old Jamaican work importation era. this of course meant constant reggae music at the clubs. We then booked a ¨tour¨ to the Tortuguero National Park. This involved taking a bus ( i left my damn tent on the bus so we only got 3 days of use out of it!), taxi, water taxi to our accommodation. We had set our alarm for 6 am to pack everything up to find out that i must have turned off the alarm in my sleep. we woke up at 6:40 to scramble to get to the bus stop in time for a 7:30 departure(reoccuring trend) part of me is angry that i lost the tent so early, another part of me is relieved that i didn´t have to drag that thing around any more. On the way we saw animals almost too many to list such as howler monkeys, the jesus christ lizard, crocs, caimans, and herons galore. After spending multiple trips to verify what was included on the so called ¨tour¨we took a walk over to the beach at night to check out the sea turtles laying eggs. They hold you back off the beach to not scare the turtles but once they start a layin´they let you actually see the eggs fall in the hole and the turtle scurry back into the sea. This morning we took a row boat out into the national park to check out more animals. Lora really wanted to see a toucan, but all we could see is a little bit of one way up in a tree. We got to see other animals too, we have a list somewhere though. We then learned that our ´transfer´does not include a water taxi, and a bumpy bus ride to town. We then get to the bus station with our travel partner Adam (who took everything in stride) and mike (whom which had been getting more annoyed by the second or the lack of organization for us) and left mike at the bus on toward san jose. Our ride to our present location was not there. our taxi driver suggests maybe it is at another station. Much confusion later our driver shows up to only say, the guy at the national park put us on too early of a boat! He drove around frantically looking for us but luckily mike alerted him of our presence.

Ok no jokes, only rambles but thanks for reading. Waterfall and ¨jeep boat jeep¨ride to monte verde.