Of course, I can never quite figure out how to the photos up on these things. It certainly doesn't help that everything on this computer is in Spanish. On that note, you'll have to excuse any mispelled words, since the spell check is Spanish and is identifying every one of my words as wrong. Also, please excuse any missing/wrong puncuation, as it's all in a different place on this keyboard. =)
So far things have been fine, really. I few hiccups that all seemed to be related to airport gates, but other than that - itś been smooth. Of course Houston was having massive storms, including flash flooding and the like right as we were supposed to fly out, so our flight was delayed two hours - which included changing gates 3 times. But, we obviously made it to San Jose (in Costa Rica, not California, which is apparently a distinction I need to make to people) safely.
I did have a moment of concern as we landed and the pilot came over the loudspeaker and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, it looks as though there has been a gate change and our gate is currently occupied. So, we are parking somewhere remote and you can take the stairs and a bus to the terminal." Um okay. Will do. So, true to his word, we went past all the gates, anything that looked like an airport, under all the landing planes, and parked next to a corrugated iron shack. No worries though, there were stairs and a bus, as promised, and we were taken back to the airport - all in due time.
We went through customs - which was a bit of an issue for Mom, who refused to put her nationality as USA, rather than New Zealand (even though sheś traveling on a US passport), but they let us stay anyway.
We took a taxi through San Jose to our cute little budget hotel. Our room had a shared bathroom, but thatś okay, because we have our own hammock outside our room and thereś a great breakfast buffet.
We spent the day today walking around downtown San Jose - got lunch at a little local spot (equivalent of $6) then got coffee and a dessert at the Grand Hotel restaurante (equivalent of $15).
Highlight and lowlight of the day: a pigeon sat right next to our table for our entire coffee break and I held it together - well, mostly. Thatś my challenge to myself this trip - to get to a point where I can at least put up with the birds without screaming, crying, and running away.
So, I made it through our break without making a scene and we walked back to the hotel. We did see an iguana cross the street, which was cool - and I should note that iguanas don't turn me into a nutter at all.
So here we are at our adorable little hotel, resting up for the evening. Tomorrow we'll hit up San Pedro, a neighboring town, and then head to Maximo Nivel HQ, which is the company in charge of our turtle adventure.
Hopefully I can figure out these photos...
So far things have been fine, really. I few hiccups that all seemed to be related to airport gates, but other than that - itś been smooth. Of course Houston was having massive storms, including flash flooding and the like right as we were supposed to fly out, so our flight was delayed two hours - which included changing gates 3 times. But, we obviously made it to San Jose (in Costa Rica, not California, which is apparently a distinction I need to make to people) safely.
I did have a moment of concern as we landed and the pilot came over the loudspeaker and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, it looks as though there has been a gate change and our gate is currently occupied. So, we are parking somewhere remote and you can take the stairs and a bus to the terminal." Um okay. Will do. So, true to his word, we went past all the gates, anything that looked like an airport, under all the landing planes, and parked next to a corrugated iron shack. No worries though, there were stairs and a bus, as promised, and we were taken back to the airport - all in due time.
We went through customs - which was a bit of an issue for Mom, who refused to put her nationality as USA, rather than New Zealand (even though sheś traveling on a US passport), but they let us stay anyway.
We took a taxi through San Jose to our cute little budget hotel. Our room had a shared bathroom, but thatś okay, because we have our own hammock outside our room and thereś a great breakfast buffet.
We spent the day today walking around downtown San Jose - got lunch at a little local spot (equivalent of $6) then got coffee and a dessert at the Grand Hotel restaurante (equivalent of $15).
Highlight and lowlight of the day: a pigeon sat right next to our table for our entire coffee break and I held it together - well, mostly. Thatś my challenge to myself this trip - to get to a point where I can at least put up with the birds without screaming, crying, and running away.
So, I made it through our break without making a scene and we walked back to the hotel. We did see an iguana cross the street, which was cool - and I should note that iguanas don't turn me into a nutter at all.
So here we are at our adorable little hotel, resting up for the evening. Tomorrow we'll hit up San Pedro, a neighboring town, and then head to Maximo Nivel HQ, which is the company in charge of our turtle adventure.
Hopefully I can figure out these photos...
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