Monday, September 28, 2026 – started the day getting up early to watch SpaceX Starship Flight Test 14. Successful flight, went to orbit the first time and deployed Starlink v3 satellites that will have a normal operational life (unlike the ones that were deployed on the suborbital flight 13 and were only operational for about 15 minutes.)

Then we had breakfast at the hotel. I did not realize that the tables were assigned by room. But ended up sitting next to some German speaking people on holiday.

Then we got the bus for our morning river rafting.

Afterwards we got an into chocolate making.

There was this table that looked really neat there.

On the way to lunch saw a “school bus”. Looks like something you would see in America.

Also got some better views of Arenal.

Was pleasantly surprised to see the housekeeping staff made some blanket animals. We got an elephant in ours.

Linus and Shirley got a hippo or is it a dog?

After a rest we decide to venture out.

We end up going to Saffron an Indian restaurant (one of several) in Arenal. It was also raining.

Afterwards we walked around and looked at some of the souvenir shops.