Volcán Arenal

Arenal is beeeaaauutiful. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. The town of Arenal is situated at the foot of a highly active volcano. It was presumed to be an extinct volcano untill 1968 when an earthquake caused it to erupt. The explosion killed 85 people and wiped out fields, forests, and towns. It has been active ever since, shooting out red hot lava rocks every 5-10 minutes. At night, these little ruptures are visiblefrom the north. Oh and what a site it is. After a long day of waterfall repelling in the jungle and skipping rocks with a bunch of immature college guys on a river below a family of lazy howler monkeys, my mom and I took the rental car around the mountain, past tempting five star hot springs, to a little puente in the middle of nowhere to watch the molten piedras fall. Later that night, mi madre y yo met up with the same college dudes from Chicago at a little restaurant in town. I dont think I've ever laughed so hard with someone I had known for that little amount of time. We joked about everything from Absynthe, to a piece of crap 83 minivan one of the guys still has sitting in there front yard, to spooning. It was great. I was like in tears from laughter. Now I really miss my friends.

Today my mom and I are driving down to Jaco to take a ferri to Montezuma, the same town I think I remember the Yandells saying that they stayed in. Our tourbook calls it a hippy town so I should feel right at home :) peace.