Hi Guys,
I got so many questions about our trip today. We just went out with some friends on Wednesday afternoon. One of our other friends and come to visit from Thailand and the group of guys we went out to meet was leaving for Costa Rica Thursday. Since we are all friends we thought it would be fun to beet our friends down to Costa and surprise them. So at about 1am we went up to Orlando, got a hotel and booked our tickets to leave in the morning. We didn’t bring any luggage or anything, not even a tooth brush.
It is actually pretty great traveling with out any baggage though, makes it so much faster. We arrived in Costa about 11am, got a hotel and just hung out around San Jose. It is a pretty cool city, kind of dirty but not too bad. We mostly hung out at the Del Ray hotel since they have a casino and lots of girls.
Our friends got to the hotel around 5 and were so surprised to see us there. It was great. We had such a blast. I learned how to play Rummy, it is a lot like Blackjack, but if you get a run of cards you get paid out like 5x. We ended up leaving a whopping $2 up on the casino. Not too bad for two days of playing Rummy, Slots and Roulette. Better then being down.
We did rent a driver to take us to go and see a volcano and a waterfall and stopped to see some huge crocodiles on the side of the road. The whole country side is absolutely gorgeous mountains, trees and valleys. It reminded me a lot of the country side in the Dominican Republic, very beautiful and perfect for Eco tourism. If we go back again I definitely want to do some white water rafting.
Saturday we went over to Haco Beach, which is about 2 hours from San Jose, but about 20 degrees hotter! I don’t think I have ever been to a hotter place. The air was so thick with humidity, it was kind of gross. I liked the mountains there much better then the beach. The sand was darker then I had ever seen and it kind of looked like the sand you would find around a lake. I heard the sand further up North does get white though.
All in all we had a really fun time. I always wanted to go to Costa and now I have. It was different in some ways then I expected, much more expensive. It was just as pretty as I figured it would be though and the people there are really nice. A lot of the locals know at least some English and I know a tiny bit of Spanish. I really do want to learn that language though. It is hard to set the time aside to do that though cause it is so frustrating. Maybe that is the little hobby I need for the summer.
Ok, so now you know all about our little trip. I didn’t grab my pc and we wouldn’t have had internet access anyways or I would have wrote you sooner. We didn’t shut the house camz off either they just happened to go down while we were gone. There was nothing to see anyways though.
Today we have just been chilling out here at the house trying to recuperate. Tomorrow I go back to the doctors so they can check out my surgery thingy. I am hoping he releases me so I can start going back to the gym tomorrow. We are starting at a new gym and I am so excited to start. It is real close to our house which will be so nice since we are used to driving 30 minutes to go to our previous gym. It is brand new so all the equipment is the best and it is clean. Not too much man sweat on it, yet. hehe
All right I think I have babbled enough now. Hope you had a good holiday.
Kisses, Sammy