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| Ready for the trek to the Chocolate area |
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| Butterfly area-they were recording the different types in the rainforest |
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| Toucan |
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| See the small green leaves? Those are being carried by ants! There were a ton of them doing this |
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| Listening to our tour guide |
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| Cocoa plant |
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| Smelling the beans inside...we even tasted them straight from the pod! |
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| Part of the process of making chocolate |
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| Drying area |
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| Roasted beans |
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| Grinding beans in a 500 year old lava stone |
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| Using a more modern day grinder |
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| Still grinding |
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| Using muscle to grind |
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| Getting the last bit out |
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| Watching the chocolate presentation |
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| Tasting chocolate |
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| Making a hot chocolate drink |
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| Fancy way of stirring it |
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| Ready for our hot chocolate drink. They had different things to mix with it like chili pepper, vanilla, nutmeg and more. |
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| Steps of making chocolate and cocoa |
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| Fresh batch |
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| Tasting dark chocolate on a spoon. The boys thought it was yummy once they had added brown sugar and cinnamon. |
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| One more taste! |
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| Looking at how the cocoa pods grow. Notice them growing on the trunk of the tree. |
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| We loved that our guide, Javier, had cell service in the middle of the rainforest. He was on a call with another group that is coming soon. |
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| Mr. Norment on the suspension bridge. |
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| Cool plant |
