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.