Quanacastre Folk Dancers

Rodeo-Quanacastre-Costa Rica - Jan 2012

I loved the rodeo in Costa Rica. There were about a dozen bulls to be ridden. This is just one of those but it was fairly representative of the whole.  Grand dad was a rancher. Dad took us kids to the Calgary stampede.  Rodeo sure beats tv. This was the real thing and I was there with hundreds in the stands glad that I was old enough not even to think I might like to try something like this myself.

Zip lining Canopy Tour- Quanacaste - Costa Rica

http://www.swisstravelcr.com/tours-and-activities/
I had a great day zip lining with Alehandro from Swiss Travel Tours and young people from Ohio and Pennsylvania.  It was wild.  As an old guy I kept up with the young, barely.  They were smiling and laughing a lot more. It took me a couple of trips before the terror of the first go turned to excitement and real fun. Allehandro took pictures and caught me looking pretty grim.  I actually smiled alot, especially after I got off.  I didn't ever get to the horsing around phase though that the young guy did. The girls were clearly immortals as well. The burn nurse told me she actually liked jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.  It's really safe with safety lines and such that still doesn't sink in psychologically on that first run. It was strenuous by the end but what a great day.  After we luxuriated in the hot springs before having the most magnificent 6 course lunch mostly produced by the ranch itself.