A trip to a volcano

This is our last week in Orosi. Yesterday we went to see a volcano, the biggest one in Costa Rica. Our tour guide’s name was Luis and was also our taxi driver that picked us up from the airport. Luis only speaks Spanish so we have to listen carefully and had dad help translate. But it’s fun. We actually stood on top of the volcano and looked into the crater. If it blew up we’d be goners. But it didn’t. I think I felt a rumble from time to time (haha). It has exploded before in 1963 when the President John F. Kennedy was here. The surface on the volcano had lots of black sand, which is actually ashes from the explosion. It reminded me of the time if the dinosaurs. There were three huge craters, nobody could climb into or out of them, they would die if they tried. Ceallan saw big chunks of the volcano, she said they looked like meteorites. After that Luis brought us a snack, cookies, coffee, delicious juice and fresh papaya and pineapple. The pineapple and papaya was so delicious. We noticed an animal that looked like a raccoon with a longer tail that stood up in the air. Dad said it is called a coati. Ceallan saw little baby coati’s following their parents she said they were so cute. The coati’s tried to steal your food, so Luis brought a plastic bag and when the coati got near us he would shake the bag and Ceallan and I made howler monkey noises. That really scared them away. One coati got into a trash can and it looked like the trash can had grown a tail. It found a big chunk of cheese. It reminded me of a raccoon.

Daddy pretended he was a T-Rex and we were duckbills running across the volcano and we pretended to jump into the lake to swim away. The dirt was just like in the days of the dinosaurs.

Ceallan is going to tell a story: one day there was a big mean T-Rex and Ailsinn and Ceallan, two duckbills decided to go see Mr. T-Rex but Mr. T Rex was not that happy today. So the duckbills decided to go for a swim with their babies and the T Rex caught an eye on them. The duckbills swam away. The T Rex started charging after them, flump, flump, flump. The duckbills swam under water. And then the duckbills got away. The T Rex ran into the water but sank down because he can’t swim very well. THE END

After we went to the volcano, we drove back down for about an hour but it was great scenery. Our ears popped. You could see down into the valley and there were mountains all around. We could see many towns, like Orosi, Cartago, Paraiso and even San Jose- which is the capital of Costa Rica. If it wasn’t cloudy we could have seen both oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific from the mountain. So imagine being that tall! After that we went to a woodcarvers house. It was completely made of wood and the staircase was made out of logs and we could see them carving wood. We bought a few carvings because the wood is coffee wood because there are a lot of coffee trees here.

We went to lunch right before school started. Me and mom split a meal- rice, chicken, fried potatoes, and salad. Dad and Ceallan split a casado, which is basically beans, rice, plantains, fish, fried potatoes and a salad. We went to our favorite soda (that’s what they call the restaurants). We like to go there because the waitress/owner is so very nice. She calls us “mi amor” which means my love. She gives us hugs when we leave. Yesterday since it was raining she even called our school to make them come and get us because it was raining so hard. We will miss her when we leave.

When we get to the United States I can show everybody all my pictures. I am working on a really long powerpoint. My friend Grace wanted to me say hi- “Hi Grace, hope you are well!”

Below is a picture of us at the volcano.

Adios, mis amigos….