Day 2

This morning, we began our day with breakfast at the hotel. Some of us had the buffet of fruit, muffins, meats and yogurt. Some of us had waffles and some others of us us had omlettes. It was quite the spread!

From here, we took a bs ride to INBioparque which is run by the Costa Rican national biodiversity institute. We saw sloths, creatures that looked like crocodiles but aren't alligators (I can't remember thier actual name) many birds, we saw a snake get eaten by a rodent (yes, you read that correctly) and several iguana. We ALMOST had an incident with an iguana pooping on one of our kids, but luckily, she was a quick mover:) There was a butterfly house where butterflies landed on the kids.....they say its good luck! There were HUGE spiders (according to Rebecca), Jessica had a picture taken by herself (mom told her she had to:) in front of the rain forest, Kate had the coolest middle name....I could go on and on....we had a great time.

We had lunch in the cafe at the Bio Park which was lovely. From there we headed to the former prison which is now a children's museum. The kids rehearsed in there form about 2-5. They were champs! They worked hard the entire time. Maria has a spoken solo...it's nice and loud and with accurate Spanish! While we were in rehearsal , a HUGE rainstorm started. They had the doors/windows open so it got REALLY loud in the room so we took a break to wait while the storm passed. It did...quickly!

After rehearsal, we headed back to the hotel for food and the another 2 hour rehearsal. At the end of this rehearsal, the girls were treated to a question and answer session with our conductors who also happen to be the composers of several of our pieces on tour. The questions that were asked and the answers that were given were really neat. Ask the girls about thier directors....they're really interesting gentlemen and definitely yin and yang!

Off to the bed for the night. Tomorrow we are headed on a two hour bus ride to the waterfall. They say today it rained there all day. We might have some pretty soggy kids tomorrow! Oh, and there was a little earthquake last night during rehearsal...no one felt it...we were so into the music, we were oblivious to the earth shaking! Or, maybe they're so amazing, they made the earth shake....hmmm...