Pura Vida!

Buenos mi amigos! Josh and Kaila here! Just wanted to fill everyone in on how AMAZING Costa Rica is and how you should ALL come down here and visit! The country is beautiful as are the rivers! We are currently working for Rios Tropicales out of a small town called Cairo. Here we are guiding on the Pacuare (class 4) and the Reventazon (class 2/3) Rivers. We also do jungle kayaking, mountain biking, and canopy tours - as well as overnight trips on the Rio Pacuare to the Rios´ lodge! It is all amazing! As for kayaking.. Josh has kayaked most of the class 5 runs on the Carribean side with our Argentinian friends and I just did my first run on the Pacuare. Which also included my first ¨window shading¨ experiance.. that ended in me swimming and being recirculated in a huge hole with my boat - it was great! (Note to Rich Jenn and Dave: this was the same whole Dave got worked in and made it out of!)

As for other news Josh and I are getting to travel alot too. We are picking up Spanish and figured out how to navigate ourselves to the Pacific side where we tried to learn to surf. (and i say TRIED because it ended in a lot of crashing and burning!) We have also been bird watching ALOT - and we have seen over 200 species! As well as Sloths, Monkey, Iguanas, Snakes, Cuoti, Armadillo, Anteaters and so much more!

Everything is an adventure here and we cant wait for whats next! I hope that this note gets some of you interested in coming down because you wont regret it! If you want to check out our pictures you can go to: www.flickr.com - go to ¨find photo of: enter my screen name: climbnkayak. After it takes you to a new page make sure you are searching under ¨people¨ - there are lots of pics with much more to come (including Josh, Jenn, Rich and I flipping in a huge hole called Semaronies!)

Hope everything is going well with the rest of you! See you all soon!

Pura Vida!! (it means pure life and you can hear this at least 10 times a day here)
Kaila and Josh