La Pura Vida, Day 1 (Sunday)

I’m going to make a separate post for each day, but since it’s now day 3 the first ones will be in quick succession.

Day 1:

We drove to Carrollton on Saturday night so that we would be ready to drive to Atlanta early Sunday morning to catch our flight.  Just before 10am we were boarding the flight to Liberia, Costa Rica.  A series of unfortunate events led to Courtney missing the flight.  We were all very disappointed – not an emotion that helps you endure a 4 hour flight well.

It’s been almost 10 years since I was on an international flight – in seat TVs with individual music and movies did a lot for my flight anxiety.  There was one episode of Glee available – Dream On.  I’m pretty sure I told Thomas my life had peaked.

We arrived in Liberia shortly after 1pm local time.  The airport was open air, so we were sweaty but very happy while we waited in line for Immigration.  We grabbed our bags out of the chaotic corner that served as baggage claim then swam through the crowd of taxi drivers and chauffeurs.  I felt a bit like a celebrity walking through the paparazzi.

We are staying in the Villa Mariposa, in the resort community of Ocotal.  The view is spectacular and we have the house to ourselves – 3 bedrooms, pool, hot tub, etc.  The stay includes a cook (Anabel), bartender (Oscar), and housekeeper (Mariel) – I feel a little guilty about being so spoiled, but I like the bottomless pina coladas…

When we arrived, Oscar had drinks, salsa and guacamole waiting for us- yum!  We hung around by the pool for a while, everyone was still a bit bummed about Courtney not being about to come till the next day.  Dinner was delicious fresh caught red snapper, slaw and roasted vegetables (dessert was flan with coconut).

Before dinner we tried to snoop around the other villa close by, but there were guests there too.  We did run into the spa ladies though, and set up after lunch massages for Monday. Yessss.

We watched the sunset, checked out the stars for a while then went to bed around 7. (Hey, it’s vacation – we can if we want to.)

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