Monday, June 30, 2008

Costa Rica’s Namesake


The latest weekend trip brought me to Manuel Antonio, a beautiful beach southwest of San Jose with a national park. After last weekend’s intense hike into the clouds, the relaxing beach scene was a welcome one. Two days of fun in the sun left us all relaxed, refreshed, and reddened. I practiced some surfing and we played some beach soccer. For old time’s sake we played some Four Square. Much to our chagrin, the apparent All-American Four Square Champion, Sean, posted himself in the King square and could not be defeated by anyone on the beach.



We didn’t even need to go to the national park to see wildlife; the hostel was teeming with exotic animals. Large iguanas kept vigil on the roofs and happily took apple chunks for tips. I made good friends with a tree frog who joined us for our evening soirée.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey AJ,

How long did you hold that headstand? pretty good! Did you then push up to a handstand???
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A.J. Rogers said...

i held that one pretty much all day, i went up into that flying tree pose from sideways crow during our yoga session. after that, we did fire-breathing dragon and unicorn of the allmighty.