Schramms and Stouts on our day trip to Rincon de Viejo

A zip-lining photo, with our driver....

Almost ready to saddle up and head to the hot springs

Putting on my "diper"...getting ready for the 1200ft waterslide!

Zach and I both agreed, this was the funnest (or should I say funniest)

part of the day!!!

Bryan and Zach go out for a surf!

Finally a few pictures from our visit with Bryan and JoDee....my computer was giving me a hard time uploading these. We have had so much fun with all of our visitors the past few weeks and are so grateful we could squeeze in these visits before having the leave CR.

Scott and Cindy Gunderson came down for a visit with their two boys! Cindy actually had her tickets booked before we booked ours to come down. We had booked a condo in the northern part of the country, but ended up driving back to our house the next day. Accommodations worked a little better for our families here.....food was a 45 minute drive, the beach was un-swimable since there was some kind of biting fish in it, and we again had all of our kids sleeping in one king bed, while Zach and I slept on the pull out. We all agreed it would be easier to just be at home, so we headed back the following day. Even though we had some rain here and there, we had plenty of sunny and dry moments for playing out on the beach, which was everyone's choice of play for the week.

Stout/Gunderson volcano building competition. The kids actually got some paper and lit it on

fire for effects.

Also since we were at home, we booked Grettyl to watch all the kids for movie night so Scott, Cindy, Zach and I could go out to dinner. We tried a new restaurant, Nibbani, and I had a super tasty greek salad and spinach/ricotta ravioli (Zach let me choose, and this is so typical of me....I love pasta). Scott and Cindy went a little more cultural to the area, and had the ceviche, cream of onion soup, and the curry..... Bottom line was we didn't have to cook or clean up after the kids, so everyone was happy, and everything was super delicious. The following day we went to Monkey Bar, 2 for 1 pizza, and even though it was exactly that, bar pizza, the kids loved playing with the baby gecko, and goofing around on the billiards table.

Scott and Cindy left Saturday early afternoon to give themselves plenty of time to arrive in SJ before dark, but when we got a call from them around 8:30pm, they let us know they had just arrived.....8 hours post departure time!!!! Zach and I rearranged our plans to get to San Jose immediately, and called our driver, who is now picking us up at 7:30am instead of noon....