Day 5 :)

Hola friends and family! 

Another great day in paradise! Today we woke up bright and early to get a head start on one of our several service projects we complete over the course of this trip. We had a delicious breakfast, as usual, and took a tractor ride to the village. There, we finished painting a bus stop, a project originally started by a previous group of students. The artistic ones painted birds and touched up the outside of the mural, while the less precise ones of us painted the inside blue. 

After the walls and ourselves were completely covered in paint, we took a car ride to the side of a mountain, where we hiked up and took 12 different zip lines down through the rain forest canopy. At one point some of us even hung upside down! Even the people scared of heights had a great time!

For lunch we ate heart of palm rice casserole, which was a nice homage to our meals in Minnesota. :) There was also fajita style chicken and plenty of fried plantains. We all ate about two pounds of those...

After lunch we headed down to the lab to get cracking on our experiments we designed yesterday. We ran trials and worked out the mechanics of our official experiments. 

We had an awesome dinner but honestly that didn't compare to the dessert. We had cake and ice cream to ramp up for another few hours of science, wrapping up what we had started earlier. Tomorrow we'll be riding horses and cooking authentic Costa Rican food! We're already halfway done with our trip and it feels like we've only been here a day. Everyone is loving it!

-Anna and Sadie 

p.s. Sadie is gonna get to hold a machete on her birthday this is the real deal get ready