As of earlier today, our trip to Costa Rica was going to be more or less a repeat of the last one.
Then I started whining about wanting to go to the sloth sanctuary, and we set out to see if it was feasible. And it turns out that the drive ain't gonna be fun, but we can do it.
So now it's all changed. I think we'll still go to Monteverde -- the landscape was so pretty, and there's a frog place and a bat place there I didn't know about before. But, amazingly, I just decided that we shouldn't go to Manuel Antonio, where SO many of my pics were taken last time. I would love to, but I think I'd rather see new things and not be stressed about time than trying to hurry it up so much so we can see it all.
Monteverde will be out the window, too, if I can find something that sounds even more appealing; I'm going through the guidebook (and Flickr pics!) now.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"