Costa Rica 2005 Pictures from our October 2005 vacation to Costa Rica.

Last-minute practicing at the airport Stranded in Miami for a night w/out luggage, I bought this shirt. Topiary gardens in Zarcero, a town famous for its cheese. They call it queso. Zarcero's lovely cathedral. A roadway shrine to Jesus. Arenal volcano at sunset. Tabacon Hot Springs is heated by Arenal Volcano. La Fortuna, the nearest town to Arenal, has a bust of JFK. Of course. Arenal Volcano is the most active volcano in C. America. The others are lazy. Hotel San Bosco in La Fortuna. The balcony is for volcano watching. 485 colones = 1 dollar. They don't have orange in juice Costa Rica, just something called Jugo Naranja. Not a sign we expected to see in the middle of a Costa Rican rainforest. Lake Arenal. A truckstop on the Inter-American Hwy. The view from Amor De Mar hotel in Montezuma, Costa Rica. Our room is on the right. A variegated squirrel and a white-throated magpie jay. Same squirrel. Taken on the beach in front of Amor De Mar. Attempted Smile #1 Åttempted Smile #2 Success! Most flattering photograph of the vacation. Our view of the ocean from a hammock at Amor De Mar. The ocean's view of us. Crab-snail thingies eating bread at Montezuma's Playa Grande. Playa Grande backs up to a nature preserve. This is some of the preserved nature. It's a white-faced monkey. Not all of the beaches at Montezuma back up to nature preserves. The bird that hassled us at lunch. The cat that hassled us dinner. The frog that hassled us at our hotel. Canopy Tour Our canopy tour guides. Canopy Tourists. One of the stops on the canopy tour. A popular Costa Rican cleaning product. I guess it scares the dirt away. Kristin worked at Amor De Mar. Matt was in C.R. on his honeymoon. Bartenders at Chico's One of our canopy tour guides. After 4 tequila shots each, Matt dumped his wife for Christi. Not to be outdone . . . Matt's wife eventually showed up. She was not happy. Christi, the next morning, on the car ferry to Puntarenas. Note the ferry's advanced passenger safety features. So, that's where they come from. In Costa Rica, even the dogs wear The Necklace. Reynaldo at Manuel Antonio. I met him at the same spot, ten years ago. Sunset at Manuel Antonio We're auditioning to be airbrush t-shirt models. Immersion in what? Hands-down, the best Travel Chicken in Costa Rica. From the hills above Manuel Antonio. The sign in Cafe Milagro's bathroom in Quepos. Sounds delicious! Wait until after the show to use them. A popular bank. Gran Hotel De Costa Rica in San Jose. We spent our final night there.