We got back from Costa Rica last week and it was the most amazing week of the year! We went during over 1 year wedding anniversary and about one month prior to Trevor deploying to Afghanistan, it was truly perfect timing! I posted pics on Facebook already, but wanted to have a few on my blog as well!
These pics are from the first day we got to our resort in Guanacaste, Costa Rica! This was our little private villa that we had in the back of the resort and our view from the villa :) This was absolute serenity... love!
These pictures are from an all day tour that we went on that took us to the Arenal Volcano, one of the most active volcanos in the world. It was amazing! It was about 3 hours away and we took a tour bus up the mountain! These pics are from the hotsprings at the base of the volcano as well...it was so so cool! 25 different pools of hotsprings with 12 different temperatures...it was SO relaxing!
These are right before we went ziplining! We rode on the gondola up the mountain and into the rainforest...this was such a CRAZY experience to be in a REAL rainforest...when we looked down, we couldn't even see the ground, just trees because we were on top of them all :) Amazing views!
Wheeeee! This was absolutely insane! We ended up zipling down about 8 different cables! We started off with two "test" cables to make sure we knew what we were doing and check the safety of the equipment. On the third cable, we came out into the middle of the rainforest and I just remember thinking "Oh my goodness, I could actually die right now if I fell" and I was terrified to look down. Trevor said I pretty much screamed the entire way through the rainforest LOL! But in my defense, he was completely freaked out at that first real cable too ;) We also got stuck in a thunderstorm on about the 4th cable...absolutely terrifying because we were about 700 feet in the air in the middle of the rainforest with rain, thunder, and lightening! One of the cables we actually zipped approximately 2,200 feet at about 50mph in pouring down rain...
Just us :) We got to take a TON of pictures while we there with my new camera and Trevor was so very patient with me ;) He knows that pictures are so important to me, especially for our anniversary and right before he leaves.
This trip was incredible. It was exactly what we needed for our marriage and for the pre-deployment stage that we were about to begin. Our life at Fort Hood has been pretty fast paced since we got married and I moved here about a year ago and this vacation was such a blessing. We were able to shut the rest of the world out and just focus on "us" time. Instead of laying on the couch on our phones or laptops at night, we sat outside on our porch and listened to to the waves hit the rocks and state out at the ocean outside of our villa. Thank you God for providing such a relaxing and much needed vacation for our marriage :)
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