For Alisa's wedding we went to Costa Rica! My mom and dad were able to come to which I was super excited about! It was such a beautiful resort and a beautiful wedding! We first got there and just explored the beach and the resort before it got dark, which happened around 6:00. Here are a few photos of right when we got there on the beach and a picture of the outside of the room. Alisa also gave everyone welcome bags which were so thoughtful and very cute!
As we explored the resort the next morning, my mom, dad and I ran into some amazing wildlife running around. This was one of the bigger iguanas we saw and then there were coati's which looked like monkeys and raccoons mixed together to me. They were so cute and would just walk right by you or in front of you which I thought was amazing! We walked up on a pack of them playing in the grass!
One night after a concert, some of us decided to go dancing at this small club with a DJ. Needless to say we were the only ones on the dance floor for most of the night. Here is a pic of my mom and I and then love the pic of everyone pretending to dance!
Monday May 12th was the wedding day! We all met in the lobby where trucks came and got us and took us down to the beach! It was great! The set up for the wedding was beautiful, the weather ended up being beautiful and it went smoothly! Here are just a few of the pictures I got from the wedding!
The next day was our excursion day! It was a full day excursion and we left at 7:00 in the morning. Needless to say we were all tired but once we started the excursion we all woke right up! First we did zip lining. We were all pretty hesitant at the first one, but then we were all professional zip liners by the end of the 7 zip lines! :) Then the next part was horseback riding. I hadn't been horseback riding since Hawaii which was when I was a junior in high school so I was nervous yet excited at the same time! We didn't just go on flat land either, we went up mountains, down steep mountains and in the streams and actually got to gallop and once my horse ran and it was amazing!
We came back to the main house and ate lunch after horseback riding. After that we changed into our bathing suits and went for a mud bath and aloe bath with a rinse off in the hot springs. It was great! I can't wait to see all the pictures the wedding photographer got of us covered in mud! We then played in the main pool with the slide for awhile before heading back into town to go shopping at the local supermarket and then back to the resort. Before stopping at the resort, the driver took us to another beach we hadn't seen so we could see this beautiful sunset!
The trip to Costa Rica was a blast and I am glad I got to be a part of Alisa's big day! We have been friends since birth and I wouldn't have missed it for anything!
