Goodbye Costa Rica, we'll miss you!

We left Costa Rica yesterday, the boys and I to Minneapolis, and Luke to Afghanistan. The hardest part was not leaving Costa Rica, it was leaving Luke. But we are under 90 days now and then he will be home for good!

We had an interesting situation at the San Jose airport, they were out of fuel. I overheard one person say that the tanker was stuck in the canal (Panama, I suppose). Anyway, all of the planes had to stop in Nicaragua to refuel. It made us miss our connection so we had to take the later flight. But my parent's plane had the same problem and they missed their connection too and we all arrived within minutes of each other, just before midnight. It was a long day but the boys did great.

Here are some more pics from our trip, in no particular order (because Blogger won't let me put them how I want!).

Luke on an ocean kayak

My brother and I

Luke and I on the kayak

This iguana was in the tree in our yard

He had to be at least 5 feet long

Boys in hats

Ryan had Luke's hat so he had to wear my Mom's!

We saw this toucan on a hike in the rainforest

Our guide took a picture through his telescope for me

Three-toed sloth through the telescope

Dave riding Steven's crocodile

Luke caught this red snapper on his fishing trip with Steven

It was delicious!

On a hanging bridge near Arenal Volcano

We found this snake around the table leg on our patio

We think it was a boa constrictor

Our frog friend

He always wanted to come in our house and when

he came in, he didn't want to leave!

Have you ever seen such a beautiful fungus?

Luke took Ryan on a dune buggy ride

Note the white-faced monkey climbing on Ryan!

Green and black poison dart frog

We saw them all over the rainforest

This tree was at least 140 feet tall

I'm 6 feet and the roots are taller than I am

Sunset on our beach

The bugs in Costa Rica are giant!

This millipede is at least 5 inches long

Arenal Volcano spouted out steam continually

We also witnessed it belch out steam and ash

At night you could see red lava flowing down