A very good day... :)

Today was an awesome day! This morning I went to church with Gracy and Aaron. We knew an area of Santa Elena (close to Monteverde) that was supposed to have a few churches, so we headed that direction...We stopped to ask a woman walking by where the nearest church was, and she told us she was on her way to one, so we just followed her :) She took us the the Monteverde Iglesia de Dios (Church of God). It was very different than the Friends Church from last week, but I loved getting to see the variety between the two :) They even had a guy playing accordion during worship, which was cool.

I was surprised that I was actually able to understand most of the message! My Spanish has improved so much since being here :) At the end we had communion, and it was awesome to feel so welcomed into this community...We had basically nothing in common, but we were still connected through God. Aaron, Gracy, and I all left feeling so refreshed :)

After lunch, we got to go ziplining! We drove back over to Selvatura Park and went on their "Extreme Canopy Tour" :) There were a total of about 11 ziplines, and a "Tarzan Swing" that was one of the scariest/most fun things I have ever experienced! One of the ziplines was really long and went across a ravine, so you were way above the trees...You couldn't see the forest ahead of you because there was so much fog, so it was like flying through a cloud :) So much fun!

We went back to the station after that, and it was back to work, but it was so nice to have that time to take a break from school! One more week and we'll be traveling the Atlantic Coast :)

Inside the church

Aaron outside the church with Rebecca, the
lady we met on the way :)

Ready for some extreme ziplining!

It's REALLY hard to see, but there is a Quetzal
in between the branches...It's brighter green
than the other green :)