We visited an active volcano, Volcan Arenal on a school-led field trip this weekend. It was absolutely a fantastic experience! The four hour bus ride was half the fun! The trip was through the mountains of Costa Rica and I can hardly describe the beauty we saw. God certainly has infinite creativity. We saw so much....fields of bananas, coffee and pineapple plantations, massive ravines, beautiful mountains covered with flowers, sleepy costa rican villages, bustling villages, roadside open-air restaurants and the most interesting people! The hotel the school booked for us was of the most beautiful and unique properties I have seen. Incredibly tropical and right at the base of an active volcano! Active, like we actually experienced a small eruption Saturday while we were swimming... it groaned and then belched a huge plume of reddish-black smoke into the sky! Saturday night we were bussed around the back of the volcano to try and see flowing lava in the dark. The backside of Arenal is constantly (for the last 40 years) spewing lava all down the slopes of the volcano. It was cloudy and we could see nothing. We waited for about 1/2 hour and then the clouds moved out for just a few minutes and we had an incredible display of bright red lava literally flowing ALL over the volcano!!
What an amazing site! Mary joined another student, Angie Penner for a horseback ride up the volcano and she got to see a volcanic lake and lots of cool scenery. What a blesssing that the school arranged experiences like this in the midst of our intense studying! We desperately needed a break and what a break we had! Below are some other pictures from our trip. Our friends also took some video of our time at a restaurant on the way home called, Las Iguanas. They built the restaurant around an area known for iguanas...they are all over the place... in the trees, on the sidewalks and pretty much everywhere you looked! You can watch the video of our kids actually feeding these cool creatures at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4QCJXRieSM
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