Boat (Yacht???) Ride

Friday night while we were eating dinner at the restaurant, this little boy and his father come up to Stephanie and say, "Hi Miss Moy." He is a second grader at our school and they came up to say hi! We chatted with them for a few minutes and then the dad proceeds to invite us all to come on their boat with them tomorrow, because they are going to go to a finca (farm) to eat breakfast and then on to the hot water fall. Sure, we said, not sure if it would really happen or not. They said to meet them by 7 am down at the dock. They told us their boat is there and they would be sleeping there that night. Well, nosy us, we meandered our way down there that night and saw this nice LARGE boat sitting there! So we packed up early and went down to the dock where the captain greeted us and let us on the boat and served us a beverage before heading off. We had a great day hanging out with the kids. One of the older girls will be in my class next year. The family was so nice and generous to us all day. It was a super fun day. Then they dropped us off at the car and we headed home! (They headed home on Sunday in their helicopter!!!)

Gretchen and I on the boat!

This was where we stayed, a view from the river. We were in the cabins on the other side though, not quite this pretty of a view!

Here is the Castillo de San Felipe, the Castle of Saint Philip. We didn't stop there but we heard it as just as impressive to drive by and look at as it was to actually go in!

The second grader deciding to go inside the boat, no problem, just climb up the front of it!

The boat.....or yacht, as we referred to it!

We ate breakfast at this farm and then we all piled into the back of this tractor and it pulled us down the road until we got to the path to get to the hot water fall.

This was the weirdest sensation. We went swimming in here and the water coming down from the waterfall was very hot. The water in the pool was cool, so it was this weird hot/cold feeling!!!

Then after about an hour swimming in the waterfall, we came back to the boat and the kids wanted to go for a ride on the banana boat, there was one more space, so I got volunteered to go with them!!! It was fun though!

I had already gotten changed or I would have done this too, but then the kids climbed to the top of the boat and jumped off into the lake!!! So fun! Action shot...

Just lounging around on the Yacht!