No Hablamos Español: A Vacation from a Trip

Vacation: A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation.

Vs.

Trip: A going from one place to another; a journey

Vacation= Punta Leona

Trip= Costa Rica

Yes, we went on a mini vacation this weekend to Punta Leona (Lioness Point). Saturday morning our Mama dropped us off at a park, we loaded up on a charter bus (a very nice one), and drove to this beautiful resort. The drive was beautiful full of green lushisness. On the way we made a quick stop to look at some “man-eating crocodiles” according to Professor Spanos. We can’t attest to the man-eating part but we definitely saw some crocodiles. The river they lived in was quite disgusting but the surroundings were very pleasing to the eye.

After a two hour long drive that gave Helz sometime to read Catching Fire. For those who don’t know Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Game trilogy. They are amazing books and we recommend them to you all! But be careful they are extremely addicting and you can hardly set them down. Lez has been put on ignore for some of this trip because of Helz’s consuming addiction. She started the first one on the plane and is already well through the second. But nonetheless the books are great! Anyways, we made it to Punta Leona!

Now this is an all inclusive resort so from the get go we were given: orange wrist bands so we could do everything, a key to our rooms, and we were free to do what ever we wanted.

While we were there we:

Went to the beach and swam in the ocean and laid out in hopes to get some sun. We were warned before we went to wear lots of sunscreen and even if you don’t usually burn you will because the sun is so intense. So we lathered up in sun screen and even reapplied to prevent any sort of sun burn. And guess what? We got nothing! No burn, no tan, NOTHING! We couldn’t believe it. Oh well, hopefully the sun will still be shining when we get back to Utah.

Us in three weeks if we continue eating the way we do.

Experienced some very cold showers and a toilet that didn’t flush. We have great luck and got the only room with no hot water and a broken toilet. I’m sure we could have gotten it fixed but we never tried- everyone needs to experience a cold shower at least once, right?

Just a neat door in our bedroom we both liked a lot!

Ate LOTS of food. Every meal was a buffet- so we HAD to try everything once, if we liked it we HAD to get some more, and then we HAD to get dessert so it made for three very large meals.

Went dancing, watched some people karaoke, were offered our very first drink of alcohol (both of us said no), and stayed up until 11:30! The latest we’ve stayed up since we’ve been here.

Visited a butterfly emporium. It was really called a Mariposario or something like that, but either way it was a greenhouse filled with butterflies and plants, just in case the name didn’t make that obvious.