Pura vida, is my kind of vida ♥

I've been delaying this post , because I wanted to include pictures... Laura was supposed to post them ... but yet they are still not up. So those will be here on a later date .. Enjoy.

Now I am down to 27 days left in Costa Rica.. and I know that from this moment on every second counts. But no matter what I know life's ways will lead  me back to this place.. but I sure will miss it. Certainly not the showers -_- lol but any ways .... the purpose of todays post ... WHITE WATER RAFTING. 

I have never been , so I was super scared I was gonna get tossed off the raft into the rapids and drown under  a water fall and that idea was just re-inforced when I signed the waiver lol but that wasn't the case at all. It was super fun and thrilling experience, the rapids weren't as mean and ugly as I had anticipated.

We had to rise and shine at 6:00 am and waited for the shuttle to come pick us up, our guide was super awesome his name was Miguel, he gave us the 411 on what the day was gonna be like. I was so impressed at how good these tour guides are are translating and switching back from spanish to english, practically making it look effortless. They provided us with breakfast and lunch which definitely was a plus. We had to drive about an hour to the river from San jose and 30 minutes from the tours base to the top of the river. Once we got all geared up we got assigned to a tour guide that would ride down the river with us, we were also in a raft with two guys one from Texas and one from Connecticut they were real chill . Glad they weren't weirdos because the tour would have been so AWKWARDDD lol. Our guide showed us all the commands for rowing and we were well on our way.His name was Manuel, i'm pretty sure i drove him crazy because i'd stop rowing so that I could take pictures haha.

Rowing isn't my thing anyways, it hurt my arms and fingers also the sitting position in the raft which was pretty interesting also was not comfortable , but it was all worth it. The mountains and canyons we rowed by were so beautiful. There were tons of little  waterfalls and rocks galore. I felt like I was in Jurassic park or that scene in pocahontas where she's rowing in her canoe singing? I had to blink twice a couple times and ask myself " is this real life? "

It was incredible. and although the weather wasn't perfect it still didn't bring us down. we got stuck in a few rocks which was pretty funny but our guide knew what he was doing. we Rowed for about 3 hours and it went by pretty fast, this tour was all about the Pura vida. And I loved it .. I got a shirt .. at the raft base during lunch ... it says Challenge yourself, you only live once. Yolo .. is so much more significant when your in paradise :]