1st Day in CR Paradise.

Well, we're up. We're happy, and we're still a little amazed that we're HERE! Ah, so we started the day off with a beautiful thunderstorm, ah 9am and it starts. It only last about 25 minutes. And now we're dressed and ready to head off into town. Actually, we're leaving around 10:30. Nice! I took a map from Omar at Reception and now we try to find our way. Chris just met a guy named James from around the Niagra Falls area in Ontario. Seems he lives here part time and part time in Canada. We chat a little, and try to make our way to town.

Heredia, has one of the marine biology Universities and so, we assume there are many students, although it's Sunday, so I'm not sure how many we will see. We walk, turn left, walk, turn right. Now by this time people are looking at us. Well, we are cute, but it's more of the look of ' who are these people, and where are they trying to go'? Now I know why. We've just walked into a dead end. We're in a residencial area, but it's very run down. I'm sure this isin't the worst part of town, that would be in San Jose, but it's not somewhere where we would like to stay, (or be at night). But the people are friendly, and we somehow find our way out. Then, we're lost again. estoy perdeda (I'm lost) I think I need to remember that one! Well, we see a guy in one of the University areas. He tells us through the gate that he'll let us in to use a short cut. So we do. As soon as we get to the entrance gate one of the security men look at us like we're crazy people, and what are we doing here? Um, what are we doing here? Good thing the 'short cut' guy was driving beside us. And now it starts to thunderstorm again. #2. Anyways, we explain to him that we're just looking for the centre of town and a place for lunch. He speaks English almost better than me and helps us out. Then as we are about to start walking in the rain, (all of us with our back-packs and me with our laptop bag (Can't be to careful) and the camera) TOURISTS!!!!) the 'short-cut' guy gives us a lift! So nice. I can't believe it. He takes us to a restaurant, and when we find it closed, he takes us to another one. Nice Costa Rican's!

So after a great lunch, we start walking, but being a Sunday not much was open. It seems as though this town is not really for us. I know it's only been a day, and not even a full day at that. But sometime I guess you just know. It's hard to explain..... but we are looking for a certain something....... and this is just not it.

Anyways, we came home (found our way quite well this time) and headed off to bed for our siestas! WOW do I LOVE SIESTAS!!! During this time it Thunderstormed twice. Talked with a some family, and got ourselves a tour set up for tomorrow. We are going on a beautiful tour tomorrow. Volcanoe, Waterfalls, Butterfly park, Serpentarium, Animals and MORE! We've somehow found a guide that will pick us up later than 6am. So as I speak, Chris is making sure we are ready to go, because really.... 9 am is still early for us sometimes! (A huge thing!!!) Ok, please add one more thunderstorm, this one was heavy, but only about 10 minutes!

So, after Siesta, we went out for dinner. A great place called El Grand Papa! Well, as we leave for the restaurant thunderstorm again. Beautiful! We get a cab to the restaurant and it's stopped raining. Order some great delicious food and it starts to thunderstorm again, not once, but twice! Anyways, as I said, the food was great, and the people were so friendly so far. We're here at home now, getting ready for bed.

One more note. I'm a little sad, Why? Well, I was kind-of thinking that I would have seen a big scary bug already. Huge spider, Scorpion, something! But nothing. I've seen a humming bird, and I think when I went out for my last smoke I scared a bat, but nothing else. Oh well. Not sure why it matters, I know I'll just 'freak out' when it does happen. And I'm sure tomorrow in the Jungle something will scare me. Anyways, off to bed for now, I hope to have a great story and beautiful pictures for you all tomorrow.

Lukies Out!

The Long trip to Costa Rica

Well, our day started off very early. I was up at 2am, but I'm sure that's around the time that Chris got to sleep. The four of us were in Lesia's bed, we fit, but not comfortably. The bags were all packed the night before, so we really just had to get dressed and jump in the car. My lovely husband ran to get coffee while I was in the shower. (beautiful). Anyways, we got the boys up and they were not too happy. They were excited to get to Costa Rica, but very tired. This made me a little nervous for the trip, we still have more than 14 hours until we were at the hotel.

Ah, but we made it to the airport with just a little bit of tears (Lesia and Christina drove us - Mama had to work!). And the first leg of our flight was quite uneventful. Actually, you'll have to talk with Chris about this as Oscar and I both slept all the way to Las Vegas. Las Vegas wasn't too eventful either. Our arrival gate and departure gates were very close, and we had time to colour and get some breakfast. Nothing much to do there. Is there much to do at any airport? Oh wait, I did throw in 2 bucks at one of the slots, no luck.

Off to Phoniex. That took about an hour. Such a strange trip, but the extra stop-over saved us almost 300+$ each, so we went to Phoniex.

Now on to San Jose. We've been on planes now for about 6 hours, and awake for another 4! The boys at this point were still doing fantastic. We even had people mention how well behaved they were, and when we told them that we had been up so long and on a few planes already, they were very surprised that two little boys could do so well. Well, what can I say, even when they are driving Chris and I crazy, they are still great little men.

So, we get to San Jose (well kind-of) It was below us.....there were heavy thunderstorms so we couldn't land right away. We circled for 40 minutes, and then we circled again for 45 minutes. Our only option was to go to Liberia for the night if we couldn't land, but thankfully we didn't need to do that. We were first in line to land, but the pilot wanted to make sure that it was safe enough. Nice to know. After only a few more minutes we made the decent. Wow! I'm not sure how we didn't spin out on the tar-mat, but I'm really glad we didn't!!! And now we were here. Customs and all went very well and smooth (no line-up because they were all still in the air trying to land!), and Carlos was waiting for us with a sign 'Amara Lukie' to bring us to the apart-hotel Roma. Up until now the boys were so fantastic! But it was now that they started to get sick and tired of travelling. It was very hard to convince them to get into the van to get to the hotel. They just didn't want to travel in any way any more. Well, crying all the way to our new home, we left.

The drive was short, and sweet, but very dark. It was hard to see anything around. We just made it to the grocery in time before it closed. Still raining, we had some toast and drinks. Yum, nice dinner..... After trying to figure out why our room was upgraded with a new bill, we decided to stay a few nights before commiting to the 19days. We'll need to see the town and area in the light of day......

More to come, I need to sleep.