March+8,+2010

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By Madi

Wow, what a day…first of all we all ot up and came to school and boarded the bus – ready for the 3 ½ hour drive to Arenal. The drive was pretty long but very fun! Hope and Megan sang in the back the whole time! Once we got near the hotel it started to get really foggy and we couldn’t even see out the windows! We came up to the hotel and knew it would be a fun trip. We got our room keys and ran to our little cabins – 7 all in a row – and put on our swimsuits and immediately ran to the hot springs. It was so cool! They went from really hot (higher) to really cold (lower ones). It was so relaxing. We didn’t want to leave but then it came time for the hike. I feel tired just thinking about it…the sign literally said “for experienced hikers…but we did it anyway and as William was rocking the trails,” (he’s a trail-rocker) a stick fell from a tree and hit David in the eye…Ouch! But he was really tough and kept going. Then – finally we came up upon a waterfall and it was beautiful. Then we headed back up the trail and finally finished it – exhausted – we all went back to the hot springs, got pina coladas and relaxed for a bit. Then 5 minutes after Tinsley and Lindsay left, they came running back up to the hot sptinrs yelling as they said ‘SOMONE STOLE LIKE $100 FROM BOTH OF OUR WALLETS. NO JOKE!!! Everyone jumped out of the hot spring and sure enough all of our hotel doors to our rooms were unlocked and our wallets lay open on the floor with no money in them!! Of course by then it was pitch black dark and we were all totally greaked out that someone had access to all of our rooms and our money. Not only that, but we could not find Mrs. J and Mr. W! It was 6:30 and they were supposed to be at the dining room but they weren’t. We searched for 10 minutes and finally found them and explained what happened. After 30 minutes of investigating, we sat down and ate dinner…besides the fact that we were freaked out, dinner was really good!!! Afterwards the hotel checked with the issue and we went back to the hot spring and chilled out. Then Mr. Waybright popped out at us and everyone screamed bloody murder! It was hilarious. Then we all went to David and Locke’s room and watched Scooby Doo and then Meg, Hope, Caroline and I went to William and Henry’s room and watched Zohan – funny movie haha. Then we were kicked out of there too so we went back to our rooms around 11:00 and went to sleep (well at least that’s what the teachers think.) JK