Pictures from our trip to Costa Rica: Dec 27, 2010 - Jan 7, 2011

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5a. Jonathan and Benjamin at the Monteverde cloud forest	5b. An emerald toucanet	5c. Sex in the city - um - forest	5d. The bridge - you can also see how lush and green Monteverde is
5e. All of us on the bridge	5f. A black guan	5g. There were some very interesting plants	5h. And fungi
5i. A strangler fig - this is a fast-growing epiphyte that grows using another tree for support and often kills its host, which rots away, leaving a hollow core	5j. We saw a female resplendant quetzel	5k. Near the end of the walk, the weather cleared and we encountered some spider monkeys	5l. Benamin inside a strangler fig
5m. A violet sabrewing hummingbird	5m. A coppery-headed emerald hummingbird	5m. A green violet-ear hummingbird	5m. A green-crowned brilliant hummingbird
5m. A mountain-gem hummingbird (female)	5m. A purple-throated moutain-gem (male)	5m. Hummingbirds weren't the only things at the feeders. This is a bananaquit	5m. Jonthan took this fantastic shot of a green violet-ear hummingbird
5n. We made an unplanned stop at a sloth rescue, where we met Speedy	5o. Speedy is a very photogenic three-fingered sloth	5p. A less photogenic three-fingered sloth	5q. Jonthan took this very humorous picture of a two-fingered sloth
5r. A two-fingered sloth baby	5s. After lunch, we saw another blue-crowned motmot - very pretty	5t. We went ziplining and saw coatis at the zipline place	5u. Benjamin on the first (of 9) ziplines about to go out
5u. I went second	5u. Jonathan starts off	5u. Marc went last	5v. After the first zipline, we took a gondola to the next and then had to climb a to the top of a tower
5w. On some of the ziplines we went down in tandem. This is Jonathan and me (but you can only see my feet)	5x. Here are Benjamin and Marc setting up to go down in tandem	5y. A picture of me going down by myself. You can get an idea of how high up we were (VERY HIGH!)	5y. Jonathan coming in - you can't even see the forest floor
5z. Marc coming in by himself