COSTA RICA BLOG #4

COSTA RICA BLOG #4 I just spent a week in Costa Rica with my family. Here’s the summary. Costa Rica is amazing. The country has an enlightened democratic government, nice people, and natural beauty. I am going to come back here. My family is awesome. One nice thing about getting to spend time with them is that I can learn more about myself from our similarities and differences. We ate dinner together each night and enjoyed great conversation. Our trip was a mix of active and passive vacationing. We rode zip lines and horses and swam in rivers, hot springs, the ocean, and swimming pools. We also just hung out and relaxed by reading, napping, enjoying meals, drinking Costa Rican coffee and beer, and socializing with other tourists. We spent one day in Nicaragua. I thought a lot about analogies with the current violence in Egypt while in Nicaragua. The poverty in Nicaragua shows that disregarding human life in foreign policy is bad. I thoroughly enjoy our family’s annual vacations.