Sunday

We got up, had breakfast at the church and set out for a day of sight seeing. We headed up the mountain to see a volcano and waterfalls. We went to Volcan Poas, which is an active volcano, it hasn't gone off since 1989...glad we were safe :). It was beautiful and amazing to see. Then we hiked up the mountain (8600 ft above sea level) to see a crater that had been made by the volcano and is now filled with water. We hike back down the mountain to the bus. We went on up the mountain in the bus to see waterfalls. There was a huge waterfall that you could walk behind, very neat, slippery, and scary. :) After lots of pictures and exploring it was back to the bus to go on up the mountain to a hummingbird sanctuary. There were hummingbirds everywhere and you could see the waterfalls from there. We had lunch at a neat little restaurant that had wonderful drinks of fruit in water or milk. The fruit in water was like pureed fruit (I had strawberry and it was very good) and the ones with milk were like milkshakes. That night we had dinner at the church and planned for our work week.
We could choose between 3 sights to work at. One group was building a house from the ground up for a lady who lived in Guadalupe. The second group was working at the largest school in central america for children with special needs. The final group was going to work at an orphanage that was home to 80 children from the age of 10 months-12 years old who had been physically or sexually abused.
We headed back to the compound for the night.