First we geared up in a harness, much like for rock climbing, with a steel lined leather "glove" for our primary hand and a leather glove for the other. Then they took us to school. The practice line is about 10 feet long and five feet up. Easy, sit in your harness put the metal lined "glove" over the cable behind your head, your other hand holds the buckle in frount of you. Cross your ankles and curl them back below you. Zip. To slow down you pull down with the metal glove, to slow down a lot use both hands. To stop less gracefully, slam in to the stop at the end. You can get speeds up to 50KPH.
Next they took us up the mountain in a truck which was pretty cool all by itself.
I went first for most of the trip. This was perfect in that I didn't have time to be nervous. It was wonderful. 
Some lines were short but some went forever with views up, down and out.
It was rainy in the morning so we wore the rain gear but we didn't really need it. We did twelve different platforms plus the Tarzan swing. 
We bought the video and I'm glad they made it; it was too awkward to get to the camera with the gear on and some of the transfers were super fast. But as we didn't bring a computer we haven't really seen most of the video (or the 200 extra pictures of Costa Rica and the wildlife hear).
We back to the hotel by 10AM for a nap and volcano viewing from the room. For lunch we had a pizza delivered to the pool. So after lunch we swam and napped in the shade while doing some volcano viewing.
Then we went back to the Ecotermales for an extended evening of soaking. 
We intended to have dinner there but the reservation didn't translate quite right. We came back to the hotel restaurant for a late dinner and volcano viewing instead.
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