This week as we recovered from our illness we decided what we needed was a little deversion, so we found it! We went to the Children's Museum in San Jose on Wednesday, and on Friday we went to the Parque de Diversiones.
The Children's museum was great. They had an area for aerospace and a planetarium section, a natural habitat area with some examples of the local flora, insects, animals, etc..., a history of Costa Rica 
through the ages, a large area devoted to the study of the human body, including the great inclosed photo of us in a large mouth! They had a cool house you went through that was built on an 21 degree angle where you could really see physics at work! There was a literature section and a small art museum area. They had histories of the banana and coffee plants and their contribution to the economy of 
Costa Rica. They even had a train, plane, helicopter, and some places outside where you could take a pretend trip through a banana farm and work in a coffee shop. The amazing thing about this place that was decorated like a medievil castle is that it was located in the renovated former national penitentiary. Apparently the Costa Ricans wanted to make a statement after the prison closed that they wanted to focus on the future of the country and not the past turmoils. The tickets were really inexpensive considering the amount of exhibits they provided, $1 for children and $2 for adults. We had a great time and I know we will be back again soon!
On Friday we went to the local amusement park, Parque de Diversiones. It reminded me a little
of Alabama Adventure with a Spanish flair. As Ken and I have gotten older, and especially after a stomach virus, we find some of the more exhilirating rides to be a little too moving on our digestive system. Anyway, that made my favorite thing the old town San Jose section. They had some beautiful oxcarts (a national symbol) and an recreation of the old San Jose. They had these old buggies that they sometimes pull with horses and they had a small theatre where they put on various productions. It reminded me a little of Stone Mountain. 
I believe Cade's favorite was his first kiddie roller coaster ride. It was so neat to see him go from a little timid to shouting, "Woller coast fun!"
Connor and Kayleigh really enjoyed the flying octopus ride. The
ride was spinning so fast I couldn't even get a clear picture of it. Ken just about lost his breakfast on that ride!
My big experience was on the ride that drops you some 500+ feet in 3 seconds. By the time I said,"I don't like this!" it was over, phew!
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