Greetings from Santa Elena

Hi all,
Well it's Sunday afternoon here. We are 17hours behind Sydney time, so I'm thinking you guys are getting up now on Monday morning.
Yesterday Hasi went zip lining. This is where you are in a harness and are clipped on to wires that you fly on over the top of the rainforest canopy.
He was nervous to begin with, but enjoyed the challenge.
I opted not to do it, and instead bought myself a pair of binoculars with the equivalent money, as I had forgotten to bring mine from home.
So many amazing birds in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and I thought there probably wouldn't be too many opportunities to get some in other places.
Of course the only shop that sold binoculars was selling very expensive, top of the range binoculars starting price of  $ US 350!!!
I explained to the lovely dread locked guy that I was backpacking and didn't want to travel with something worth so much money, and that was also very heavy.
Luckily he had a pair for $50, the only pair for this price in the shop, so I grabbed them.
So I had a pottering around day yesterday, washing, yoga, reading in the hammock, walking around town.
We had plans to head out of Santa Elena today but Hasi seems not too be very well again, so decided he needed a rest day.
It has been pissing rain all day so a great day for him to rest in bed.
I have been working on my Spanish today. I'm sick of the rain, it seriously hasn't stopped all day.
Made it to the supermarket to buy some supplies for dinner, but that's about it.
Hopefully when we get down from the mountains we will have some fine days.
I hope Hasi is up for travelling tomorrow, as I'm getting itchy feet now. Bus leaves at 6am, so we have to be packed tonight, and up bright and early.
The 6am is the last bus of the day! The earlier ones leaving at 4am and 5am.
So that's all the current news from Central America. We did hear that Fidel Castro died. We met a couple who had been in Cuba when his death was made public, and they said it was a very interesting time, as the Cubans were very sad. They stopped playing music or doing anything of enjoyment for 7-9 days.
So lov to you all,
Zak