Vacation over for Fernando and Eva - Feb. 26th

It was still raining on and off this morning.  After having breakfast at the hotel, we packed up our stuff and in between rain showers got all our stuff in the car.  This picture was taken this morning of our cabin, there is even a little rain drop on the picture!  Fernando is sitting on the porch, we are waiting for the hotel people to come pick up the key to the cabin.

These pictures weren't taken this morning, but they show the view we had from the cabin.

Those horses in these two pictures liked to come into the yard of the cabin, and one night they were by our windows, making their horse noises!

It was still raining when we left the cabin at around 10:30am and it wasn't long, as we were heading back down to Liberia, before the rain stopped and the air started getting warmer.  Looking back at the mountains, we could see that they were totally enveloped in clouds and rain, but down by Liberia it was sunny and dry and hot.

We got a hotel room in Liberia, unloaded our stuff and then Fernando suggested we walk into town to watch the Tope, which is a celebration held in the Guanacaste area.  There were fireworks going off and lots of horses everywhere.  We finally found a good place downtown from which to watch the parade and we enjoyed looking at all the different kinds of horses and their riders parade by.  After the parade, we had a quick lunch and then Fernando and Eva had to leave to go meet one of their assistants at the agreed upon place of the local grocery store.  He got the car from the hotel, they loaded up the assistants luggage and groceries for the team for a week and then drove to Santa Rosa National Park to drop them off.  Later in the evening, Fernando and Eva came back to our hotel and we celebrated Fernando's birthday with a nice dinner at a nearby restaurant.  

After dinner, Guillermo drove Fernando and Eva back to Santa Rosa National Park and then it was just the two of us again on the way back to the hotel.