Costa Rica Vacation: Traveling Home

After the long, terrible trip to Costa Rica we were all dreading the bus ride home.  I'm sure everyone was silently praying that there would be no bus issues, and we could make it home in regular time.  Praise the Lord, for the most part we had an uneventful trip through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and most of Honduras.  But...

...Once we were two hours away from home we were supposed to switch buses.  The driver dropped us off at 6:30pm and said the other bus would arrive in 20 minutes to pick us up.  Once the bus left the maid who worked in the 'waiting room' said the bus would arrive at around 11pm!  WHAT?!?  So once again we were stranded in the middle of no where (at least it seemed that way).

We played games to pass the time, watched a movie on someone's computer, and finally curled up on the floor and fell asleep.  Eventually the bus arrived ahead of schedule...10:30.  We were just four hours behind the time we should have gotten home but that was much better than the trip out.

And boy was it GREAT TO BE HOME!!! :-)

Costa Rica Vacation: Playa Langosta

We made it to the beach after several hours squished in the van.  After living at the beach for a few years in Coastal Carolina, Tim and I love beach time.  This was a little different.  There were tons of rocks and more times than not a wave would come and cause injury.   Needless to say, Tim and I didn't spend much time at the beach.  We spent most of the time in our pool. :-)

Yep, this is our beach.  Some areas had more sand but you never knew what you would run into while swimming. 

This is the condo we stayed at with the pool.  That was wonderful!

The only problem is that the bathroom door led out to an 'outside' bathroom.  I couldn't believe it either.  Very strange!

We finally found a part of the beach that didn't have as many rocks but we had to cross this 'river' to get to it.  When the tide started to come up it became much deeper.  At this point it was knee deep. On our way home it was waist deep.

Beautiful sunset view from the roof.

Costa Rica Vacation: Leaving Arenal

As we were leaving Arenal to head to the beach, we decided to take a group photo with the beautiful lake behind us.  With all the fancy cameras we set one up with a timer to take three photos.  The group decided that the first one would be a good picture, then for the next two we could do what we wanted.  It doesn't always happen as you plan but these are the best photos we got the whole trip!! :-)

Christa (the one laying in the fountain) set the timer and ran to join us.  She decided to step into the 'empty' fountain to stand by me but slipped and grabbed the bottom layer so she wouldn't hit her head.  My favorite part is everyone but the two guys realize what's happening or felt strongly about having a good first picture. 

The words at this point from Joe (the one in the brown shirt)... "Hey, we got this on camera!"

Finally more help is arriving, we got the fountain put back in place. Christa and I changed our wet clothes, and everyone ran to the van to get away before anyone found out what happened.

We have laughed so much after looking at these pictures.  It truly would not have been as funny without seeing everyone's expressions.