I really like Costa Rica, but with the forewarning there are significant travel time after you land at the airport. When you book a house in some areas, it comes with a cooking staff. You pay for the food and tip everyone, but it is a really cool feature. We were in Manual Antonio, and there were so many monkeys there. Funny story, a monkey came into the outside kitchen / bar area, opened the bar beverage fridge, and took a can of coconut cream. I stole it back from the monkey, threw it back in the refrigerator. That monkey was not to be outdone -- he came back real quick, opened up the bar fridge, and took another can of coconut cream and was gone before I could take it back. They went up the tree and were trying to get the can opened, and then the can fell from the tree, and the can did burst open and was spraying cream of coconut. That team of monkeys were on the ground in about 3 seconds, but there were so many monkeys already on the ground enjoying that treat. The monkey scared away the littler monkeys, and all enjoyed the treat. The original monkey theft was shaking the can to get out all the contents. Another quick story, we hired a cook and they did cook for a group of us, but they left a lot in the outside kitchen because there just was not enough room in the fridge. Then everyone left, we were going to go when I saw all that food. I told my husband the monkeys will be here in no time, and he laughed -- until the monkeys started coming. I had already started moving everything into our air conditioned bedroom, but went into high gear throwing things in there -- they got bread and tortillas but we replaced those items.
