Merry Christmas. For our present this year, the Shepherd family took a trip to Costa Rica. We stayed outside of Guanacaste. Costa Rica is an AMAZING country. Quick Facts- in the recent past they decided to give up their national army for public education. All citizens in Costa Rica are now offered an education. The majority of the power there is wind power, and they produce all of their energy in the country. While there, we went to the spa, played golf, hiked the rainforest, went fishing for marlin (and caught two), swam in hot springs, went kayaking, snorkling, hung out by the pool listening to live music, and ate wonderful food. This is by far one of the coolest places we have ever been! We stayed at a resort called Paradisus Playa Conchal. Hold Up--the most special part of this trip was a special announcement by Molly and Jamey. It was at dinner the first night we were there that they told us they were having a baby!!! This will be our first nephew and we are very excited!
On our second to last day there, my mom, Brad and me decided to go on a trip to see the rainforest and the largest active volcano in Costa Rica. When we got up that morning Brad he wasn't feeling that great, but he nevertheless decided to go. On our trip we saw monkeys and birds. We walked through the actual rainforest and went to a natural spa resort. Unfortnately, Brad did not get to see much of this trip. He spent a lot of time sleeping and praying for the excursion to end. He did, however, see plenty of the roadside as we stopped several times for him to vomit.
Overall it was an amazing time and we hope that one day we will get to go back and we hope you will all come with us for our next visit.
