Marnie McCutcheon organized a trip to Costa Rica for anyone wanting to go with Education First Tours, and international organizations helping people see and learn about the world first hand on March 21.
A total of five kids and five adults took the Adventure tour and headed off south the have the time of their lives. “The best part for me is when it’s their first experience. The looks on their faces, I love that the most about going on these trips,” said McCutcheon.
Mackenzie Lee was definitely having her first-time experiences and more than one. She had never flown on an airplane before, “I pretend I was driving in a car the whole time,” she said. “She started laughing, and thought it was pretty neat,” said McCutcheon. Lee had her first time in her life ever going to the ocean. “It was wow how beautiful until I tasted it,” she said saying next time she goes there she’s going to spend the entire time on the beach.
Veola Copithorne loved the white water rafting the most, a two-hour trip down a rapidly flowing river in the middle of the Costa Rica jungle. Lee said all of the girls had gotten together in one raft, and that the guide was a male about there own age. He knew exactly what would be fun them, got to them to stand up on the sides of the raft, and let them jump overboard to swim for a while.
The highest most extreme Zipline in Costa Rica was also part of the tour. If you didn’t hang on with your hand to the rope you were hanging from, you would spin around while flying through the air. Copithorne, and Makayla Murray both ended up heading backward partway through, they said laughing.
Live monkeys or all kinds, snakes, red-eyed frogs, and even a tarantula were seen on the trip. Local natives had a religious holiday while the kids from Canada where there. At one point they passed by them on the beach to see “what looked like a really good time,” said macala, the native kids would even swinging from vines into the water.
The trip goers also when kayaking around a volcano base, too hot springs, and on a lot of nature hikes. One was at night. “They gave us tiny flashlights to go walk around in the dark,” said Lee laughing. “we realized after we had been walking by a venomous snake, and nobody saw it till the last guy was walking by it and t was right by our heads.”
It’s a unanimous yes by all the kids that they would return to Costa Rica and plan a trip themselves to go there again. “It’s a beautiful country, and very eco-friendly,” said McCutcheon. “Pura Vida means beautiful life, a greeting, and way of wishing each other well.” It’s the most popular expression in Costa Rica today.
