Costa Rica Flowers & Schools

Tom and I just returned from a 12 day trip to Costa Rica.  We weren't able to post pictures while there (apple and Google don't play well together) so we decided to write about our journey while there and post the pictures when we returned home.  It was a spectacular trip starting in San Jose and covering the central valley, northern volcanoes and cloud forests then on to the Pacific coast.
Here are our impressions:

                                                             People - traffic - friendly
                                              Razor wire bars on walls, words I don't know
                                           Beauty and flowers everywhere, sweet sweet smells.

                                                      Poas Volcano cloud forest - only geocache

                                    Coffee red beans fruit, picking, drying,sunning, sorting roasting

                                                 Butterflies, flowers, chocolate coconut dessert

                                                              Did I mention coffee?

Ticas proud of their country, friendly, I can talk to people on the street 

No Army, no birds in captivity, value children

Bilingual, 95% literacy

Beautiful children in 3 room school house

Cerro Alegre - Happy Hill school

Girls in beautiful dresses like butterflies

National anthems

Hokey Pokey

Coconut milk, pineapples

Sweet smiles, silly boys