Cerro de la Cruz

"Cerro de la Cruz" is the "Mount of the Cross" in Spanish and we hiked up it today. It is a small mountain in Nicoya with a cross at the very top where you can see all of Nicoya with mountains surrounding and even a view of the gulf of Nicoya way off in the distance. Some of you have been up it with us both by car and on foot but it is no easy hike. Some people have been known to not be able to make it to the top. But, guess what little 3 1/2 year old did?!?!??!?!? Yep, that would be our very own little Matthew. What a trooper!!! Dani carried him up a tiny portion of it but not enough to even be worth mentioning. It took a total of an hour going up and down. Dani did carry him down most of the way, but really????? The hard part is going up and after that, his little legs were just about to collapse. He did SO great! I'm so proud of him. He really didn't fall far from the tree on this one as we love to do exercise and I, especially LOVE to go up Cerro de la Cruz. Matthew has been going to the sports complex with us about 3 or so times a week these days while his grandmother takes care of Julian. He can really keep up! He usually does at least 3, if not more laps around the track on his bicycle with training wheels while we walk and that's more than a kilometer. THEN, we usually kick the soccer ball and not just kick it, usually we're dribbling it around and passing it, etc. THEN, he walks up the bleacher steps with us, up and down, up and down all the way down the bleachers and back again. I am so impressed with this little guy and SO happy that he's active and athletic like we are. Love it!!! And love him too!