CR Day 3: La Paz Waterfall Gardens

They don't call it the "rainforest" for no reason.  Holy smokes; it's amazing my camera is functional in any way at this point.  If I had a dollar for every time I've heard "I've never seen it rain so much here," I might have been able to pay for our entire trip.

The day brought us to La Paz Waterfall Gardens, and the key word here would be WATER.  We left San Isidro, and drove through the cat hair rain, into the sunshine, through the mountains, under the clouds, over the potholes, and the weather would change every ten minutes.

Until we got to where the Waterfall Gardens were.  The cat hair rain had turned into definite mist.  But we are, after all, in Costa Rica, and I had been warned to bring an umbrella.  Being I didn't have an umbrella, I decided now would be as good a time as any to get one.  I was glad I had brought it to the waterfalls.  And, since we were, as mentioned, in Costa Rica, I was not about to start complaining.  (Even when Tim conveniently offered to carry Phoebe in the front carrier, meaning he weasled his way into using the umbrella I had purchased for the occassion.)  Rain or no rain, I was going to experience this rainforest!

La Paz Waterfall Gardens were explained to us as the owner's "own personal Jurassic Park."  We couldn't wait to see what this meant.  It was kinda like the zoo meets the butterfly gardens meets waterfalls meets Jurassic Park.  There was a bird area where we got to feed the toucans, there was a butterfly section where the chrysallis were not behind glass like at the Butterfly Pavallion, there was a snake and frog area, an orchid area, a monkey area, and a large cat area where you could play tug of war with the leopards on the other side of the glass.  No joke.

There were also some pretty amazing waterfalls.

And some rain.  Okay, more than some.  Lots.  I think I wrang out a waterfalls worth of water out of my fleece hoodie by the time we stopped for lunch.

And for those of you who are keeping track, yes, Phoebe was with us the entire time.  She endured the rain like you absolutely wouldn't believe.  Not a complaint out of her the entire day!

Seems to me she had the right attitude.  We may have been wet, but we were wet in the rainforest in Costa Rica.  WOW!!!

In the bird hut

In the butterfly "pavalion"

checking out the butterflies

the orchids

poison dart frogs

waterfalls- i don't think the picture does justice for how wet we were

lot of good that umbrella was doing...