Day One - Travel

Hello everyone,

Today was the first day of our trip to Costa Rica. We were up at 5:30am and out the door by 6:15. Everything was really smooth for the most part. The cab ride we beautiful with zero traffic, the airport was a breeze, check in, security and customs all zero issues. The first flight was great, no turbulance and a prefect landing.

Dallas was hot, I mean really hot. Exiting the plane onto the skywalk way, holy smokes. All of 15 seconds the walk took but you started sweating after the first 5 seconds. The only minor blip at the Dallas Airport was they changed our gate of departure. Fortunitly it wasn't to far and that's probably the one airport after YVR that I know my way around, (D terminal at least).

The second flight was better for me as I had a whole row to myself (which is good karma as I gave up my seat so a little girl could seat with her daddy on the first flight). Don and Donna had it good up in business class sipping champangne and eating Sirloin and Crab. Although maybe to good as Don's body decided to not hold him up and he went a$$ over tea kettle and smashed his elbow.

Well after a pasenger picked him up and the flight attendants patched up his arm, he took a nap on the plane and is feeling much better now.

We were picked up by Wilfred (from passport medical) and he drove us to our hotel and gave us the five cent tour along the way. At night Costa Rica is beautiful so i can't wait to see it in the daytime. The best way to describe it for me is it smells like the Bahama's (humid and lush) and looks like the Algarve in Portugal. Now if that means nothing to you, you need to start booking trips because they are both beautiful.

The hotel is great, the staff are very friendly. The rooms are HUGE and very clean. We stopped in at the bar (restaurant was closed) and had a drink and snack. While we were there we met Claudette who had the surgery done three days ago and doing well. Claudette hasn't seen any overwhelming difference in her symptoms but is very upbeat. We also met Steve who is from Quebec and his wife Suzy had the surgery yesterday. Steve told us that Suzy HAS seen overwhelming relief from her symptoms. She is walking without a walker, has warm hands and feet and has taken back control of her bladder.

Everyone here is so happy it is addictive, you can't help but smile at this hotel.

I am exhausted so if any part of this ramble didn't make sense i'm sorry and i will edit it tomorrow. Here is film of Don at the Costa Rican Airport.