Sue and I got up and had breakfast. , hi-light was freshly made omelette. We let theboys sleep in as we had a free morning. We then set off To the waterfall at La Fortuna. This was a 2km hike straight up a bloody big hill. Sue did well as it could not have been great with asthma. There was a art/craft shop a out half way long and sue found a necklace she liked which I Bought as part of her birthday . We then staggered up the rest of the hill to the entrance of the park with the waterfall in it.
The walk down was pretty steep, 480 steps to be precise. Waterfall was superb, great photo opportunity! The only trouble was that you then had to climb up the 480 steps. Some people did go swimming in the pool but it looked pretty chilly, so we did not bother.
There was however , a more placid pool a bit further down that looked quite pleasant. After lots of photos we slowly climbed back up and rewarded ourselves with and ice cream from the shop. The walk back down the hill was much more relaxed.
Next stop was the baldi springs spa and hotel. this was lots of fun. The water coming from the volcano underground river and raged from about 40 degree to 67! It vene had a natural sauna. it had 3 water slides, one was especially brutal, you got up to 45 km/hr on it. They also had wet bars , i.e. you sit there boiling your nuts in 50 degrees and have a beer or in our case a decadent cocktail. Ben had a blue lagoon, Sam a Virginia piña colada I.e. no alcohol, and Sue and I had a Mojito. Quite a unique experience for us. Dinner was at 6:30 and was a pretty good buffet, with good pasta that you could make up your own sauce. Think the boys really enjoyed this part of it.
We then got picked up at 7:30 and boys went for a swim in the dark in the hotel pool. We then had a game of cards and a early night.
