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Hello, I'm in Costa Rica and we are in the Tortuguero rain forest.

When we got to Costa Rica, we arrived in the city of San Jose. We're going to be in Costa Rica for three weeks, but we had no plans when we got here. But Mom found a good place for us to start and it turned out to be great. Its name is Turtle Beach Lodge and it was an amazing place. Our guide's name was Mario and he was really knowledgeable. We really liked him.
 
When we got to Turtle Beach Lodge it was raining, but we didn't mind. After dinner we went on a night walk through the rain forest. We saw two red-eyed tree frogs mating. We were lucky we saw them mating on a branch so low to the ground, since normally they're really high up and you wouldn't get to see them.

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We were just on a Lindblad/National Geographic boat called the Explorer for two weeks. We got to go see lemurs and giant tortoises and even red colibus monkeys. We also got to go snorkeling and see lots of great fish.
 
The lemurs were so cool and this one small little island we went to called Mayotte, had so many of them. I got to feed the lemurs and get them to come on my shoulder. They are so funny because they have a face like a dog with a little wet nose and sharp teeth.
 
We also got to go see the giant tortoises. They are so BIG that you can ride on them, but I didn't do that. They eat a huge amount of food, like vegetables and leaves. I love giant tortoises because they are so cute and you can feed and pet them. They really liked it when you rubbed them on the back of their neck.
 
As you might already know, I love monkeys and on this trip we saw more of them.  We got to see the red colibus monkey in Zanzibar. They are called red colibus monkeys because of their fur color. Colibus monkeys don't have an opposable thumb, so they mostly do stuff with just four fingers.

Q:  What is your best memory from Bhutan?
A:  When I got my prayer beads blessed by a lama (click here to watch the video). It was special because we did it as a family. I also really liked the people in our tour group. They were very nice to me. I also really liked our guides, Tshering from Bhutan and Richard from Scotland. Richard is an expert on Bhutan and told us a lot about the culture and Buddhism. I learned a lot.

Q:  What's the biggest difference between Bhutan and the United States?
A:  In Bhutan, we are the foreigners (or Chilips as we were called). They have terraced rice fields almost everywhere you look. You don't see that in America. They don't have any traffic lights in the entire country, so you don't have to wait in traffic. My dad liked that!

For our second week in Japan, we left Nagasaki and went to the much bigger city of Kyoto, where we spent our first day going on a tour of the city. The first place we went to was the Golden Temple, which is a pagoda that is painted all over with gold. The tour also went to a few other temples and palaces. I really liked our last stop at Kiyomizu Temple because there were all kinds of really cool stores, called yomise, on the street leading up to it. Stefan and I had fun looking for souvenirs (I got an awesome ninja sword keychain to add to my keychain collection).

The next day we went to the Gion district of Kyoto where we stayed at a traditional Japanese inn to celebrate my Mom's birthday. They had a person come in to dress us all up in kimonos. The kimonos were kind of hard to walk in because we only had about a foot of free space inside, but it was still really fun walking around the streets in them. When we got back to the inn, we changed out of our kimonos and had a traditional Japanese dinner in our room, where we ate stuff like fish, batter fried vegetables (tempura), miso soup and fruit. After dinner, we went to a traditional Japanese tea ceremony like the one we had in Hirado, where you eat a 'sweet' before you drink the bitter green tea. We liked doing all of these traditional Japanese things and really like the food here, especially the sashimi (sushi without the rice).

Hi Everybody. I'm in Japan still, but in a different area of Japan. Remember in my first blog I said I wanted to go to Kyoto most because they were going to dress my Mom up like a Geisha girl for her birthday? Well, now I'm here!
                                                                                                              
On my Mom's birthday, they dressed all four of us in kimonos, which are traditional Japanese clothes. So, me, my Dad and Ty thought that it was really cool that we got to dress up too. Once we were all in our kimonos, we got to walk around in the Gion district, where real Geishas live. It was hard to walk in the sandals, but it was still really fun. We liked exploring the back streets of Kyoto because there are temples, shrine gates, and cool stores. We even saw a real Geisha.

One day in Kyoto, we went to a Japanese movie amusement park called Uzumasa Toei Village. It was really cool and we saw a real ninja show starring a famous, Japanese actor. I even got to battle a samurai with a sword. It was so much fun. We went to a haunted house and it really seemed like it was haunted. We also got to see where they film movies and how they do special effects. I had a really super good day there.