Si Como No Resort & Wildlife Refuge

Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Real Housewives of
Orange County
season
7
| episode(s)
16
This is all Vicki’s idea. Her son Michael has just gotten back from a trip to Costa Rica and he just loved all the zip-lining and white water rafting. Surely if Michael enjoyed it then Heather Dubrow and Gretchen Rossi will as well? Alexis has a nervous breakdown about zip-lining.

Vicki refuses to stop singing the whole trip, or at least until the last day, when she starts crying about her divorce from Don instead. But most of the drama stems from Heather and Tamra’s pact to have a pretentiousness intervention for Alexis.

Predictably, she unravels when told that she is a materialistic phony and runs from the table. That’s when Vicki strikes, taking the opportunity to console Alexis and supplant Gretchen as her best friend.

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