Behind Dave and me is one of the five waterfalls in Costa Rica's La Paz Waterfall Gardens north of San Jose, the capital. Besides hiking to see these waterfalls, we took lots of photos in the La Paz apiary starring noisy toucans, the butterfly observatory, the frog exhibit (they were all camouflaged in the foliage, but the attendant placed sign pointers near each frog - thank goodness, or we wouldn't have found one!), and a serpentarium. And they had monkeys too! A really cool place, and I know we'd never have been able to see all this wildlife 'in the wild." Although, we did see "in the wild" a sloth hanging from a telephone cable, a coatimundi having bananas for lunch, several iguanas beside the road, some crocodiles far below us in the river, and a pecary (wild hog) a few feet from us in the rain forest. Oh yes, we observed a long, long line of leaf cutter ants (all females) toting their cuttings to their fungus garden. (Although the female leaf cutters do all the work, they live longer lives than the "lazy" males!) I hope you too, dear reader, will someday take a trip to Costa Rica where they have 95% literacy and are one of only two countries with no military. Their favorite expression is PURA VIDA! which is Spanish for "pure life" and is used in many forms, from a greeting, to a synonym for "excellent." Also, Pura Vida is a synonym of "hakuna matata" which means Life is wonderful; enjoy it.
And speaking of "hakuna matata," enjoy this YouTube clip from Lion King:
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