Our accomodation in San Jose was very nice!! Hotel Gran de Oro was spectacular. I dove head first into Spanish, which I speak regularly in the clinic...but this time I could not bust into my daily canned-speeches about pediatric constipation. I was forced to actually communicate about rooms, taxis, and order meals; which is a different realm for me. I think I did okay, but Isabel bailed me out a lot. After a pleasant relaxing night in a quaint room and an awesome breakfast at the Hotel Gran de Oro (above pics); we headed for Arenal in a taxi with a few other folks...notably a young couple from NYC, who were nice enough to sell us a memory card for Isabel's new Canon Rebel XSi camera!!!
Okay...it has been awhile. Anyway, we spent our birthdays and wedding anniversary in.......yes.....Costa Rica. We researched a bit on the internet and found that eco-interactive trips are all the rave. I found a wonderful guy named Kevin Peterson to set things up for us http://ecointeractive.wordpress.com/. So if you want an excellent trip, we highly recommend this pro. He is awesome and gave us the trip of our lives. We just so happened to run into Kevin on his return trip to CR from Seattle. He was on our flight heading out of Houston for San Jose, CR. We started off in San Jose at the Hotel Gran de Oro (above). We spent one night there before heading off the next morning for Arenal, the site of the most active volcano in Costa Rica
