Day 15

Today started off & ended really great. We had breakfast at our hotel in La Fortuna and hit the streets to scourer for great buys/souvenirs. 

La fortuna is the little town at the base of the volcano that's been turned to ash a time or two by lava. It is really clean and doesn't smell like Quepos did (the town outside of Manuel Antonio). We were craving chocolate again and all of the sudden, out of nowhere, a chocleteria mirage appeared- except it wasn't a mirage!! Chocolate!! mmm. 

We grabbed a cab to The Baldi Springs Resort - which has been recommended by several people we've met here and was featured in my Costa Rica book. We get there early and tried to check in but our room wasn't ready. The dude gave us wristbands to use the springs until our room was ready…we walked around and were more than underwhelmed - and not just because we were spoiled the day before at one of the top 5 rated romantic places in the world (The Springs). 

Depressionville

all fake smiles

at the winemine aka baldi

We were shelling out a pretty penny to stay at a place like that and, frankly, it reminded me of the watermine. so Kim decided to see if we could get our money back and dip set. Eureeka! it worked, we checked in and checked out equally as fast. Liz, Suz & MK were being picked up at Baldi for their zip line excursion, so they had to stay. We threw all of our luggage (again) into a van. Kim & I high-tailed it back to town, dropped our luggage back in our room and hailed a cab back to The Springs. Not to sound bratty, (ok, this is going to be bratty) but how do you go back to canned tuna fish when you've been eating caviar? 

Kim and I lounged at The Springs all day and the girls met us there for the last supper after their zip line experience. How did it go?? Well, they survived! One of them is going to guest-blog about the experience later & share photos/videos later. 

Tomorrow we lose another - Kim, MK, Susan and I take the NatureAir puddle jumper to Tamarindo & get back to caviar at the JW Marriott Guanacaste. Liz will meet her beau in San Jose on Wednesday to then hop over to Tortuguero for the rest of the time here.