Puerto Limon Costa Rica

Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
We had a great day in Costa Rica. It was the first port after a couple of days at sea. We got off the ship and walked around town close to the port. There was a beautiful park close by and as we entered the park we met 2 young barefoot boys who were eager to show us a sloth in the tree and also an owl in the trees. We also saw an older homeless type man leaning up against a wall going # 2 in the park. That was kind of disgusting. We also saw several people laying around on the sidewalk kind of like the stray dogs did in Ukraine. Rain forest area here was so beautiful but the city area was similar to most of the Caribbean towns that we have been to. People living in dirty conditions and poverty but they don’t really mind while they are surrounded by some of the most beautiful creations on Earth.
We had booked a zip line tour that was a day line adrenaline course but there were not enough participants so we had to take another tour. Since the average age of the people on our ship is about 80 (I am not kidding) I can see why they didn’t have enough sign up for the big time zip line. As it turned out, it had quite enough adrenaline for me  Dave said that he could have gone twice as long but I was happy with the tour.
As we got off the bus to get set up for the tour. I stepped up on a little hill to take a picture but it was really slippery mud and I fell flat on my side and seat and hopefully everyone saw me so that they didn’t think that I was so scared by the zip line that I had an accident. We met some really nice people on the tour and there was even a guy who did it who was 90 years old. I hope I am still up for adventures when I get to that age.
We saw some little red frogs that are poisonous. You can’t touch them and then touch your eye or mouth or get it into your blood stream or you could die. This island is also famous for hummingbirds that have teeth. Sorry I didn’t get any pictures of those.
We learned a lot about Bananas (their big export) and the yellow fruit that I am posting a picture of is the fruit that we get chocolate from. I didn’t know that cocoa beans come out of a fruit. I thought they were in a pod like beans but they are in this fruit and they dry them out and grind the seeds to make cocoa. This information strengthened my interest in making sure the rainforests stay safe, even more 
Costa Rica is a very beautiful place. We were on the Caribbean side which from what we understand is more impoverished than the other side where it is mostly Europeans that live there. We feel blessed to get to see the beauty that is here.