The Waring parents are here for a short short holiday vacation. It’s just a week, and is nearly over already, but it’s been just absolutely packed – from the Monteverde Quaker Christmas traditions, including an all day barbecue team, a christmas dinner, a community gift exchange, a hike to thermal pools, gigantic strangler figs, epiphytes, lianas, humming birds, an agouti, a coatimundi, a toucan, a resplendent quetzal, toucanets, great-tailed grackles (and their songs), a rainbow, and splendid views of Puntarenas Bay. We’ve also done some relaxing, and playing and reading with the kids. Here’s a small sample.
Day One: We barbecued with Bruce and Ulyses
Mom and Dad with a celebratory steak
Topher and Liam do some Math!
Two humans on alien landscape.
Aguas Thermales for grandparents.
Christmas Day
A tree too large to photograph.
Bromeliad and moss on hanging lianas.
A hike in the Reserve with Ricardo!
Four Species of hummingbirds.
Resplendent Quetzal!
The bridge.
Tea and Kate 