Volcano - Friday 5/18/2012

Today I had my midterm exam. It wasn't too hard, but it was a ton of writing and short essay questions. At least it's over with! I left for Monteverde, the rainforest, at 1:00 today. There was a group of 11 and we had a small bus this time. The bus ride there was about 4 hours.

We got to our hotel at Arenal Volcano around 5:30. It was right next to the volcano. The volcano was huge!!! And it's an active volcano, so at night you can see the lava and smoke at the top of it. But it was really cloudy tonight, so we couldn't see the lava.

We went to the hot springs tonight. They were beautiful and so cool! We went to a resort to go to them. It was called Baldi Resort. Hot springs are naturally heated hot tubs. They're heated from the heat of the volcano. Some of them were too hot that we couldn't even go in. There were a ton of pool-sized hot tubs. There were probably at least 20. It was so relaxing, we were there for about 3 hours.

At the resort, we also ate a huge buffet dinner. It was delicious! We had pork, fish, salad, fresh fruit, soup, bread, rice, beans, cake, fruit juice, and chocolate covered strawberries! The resort costs $140 per person per night, but we didn't stay at that hotel so we got it for cheaper. But it was so fancy!
We left the hot springs around 10 pm and went back to our hotel. We had to get up early the next morning to leave for Monteverde.

Happy birthday Cody!

Arenal volcano outside my hotel.

The hot springs.