Allie's trip to Costa Rica

Costa Rica!

Time to wake up! It is 5 Am on Tuesday morning. It is a 2 hour long car ride to the Charlotte Douglas Airport.  But on the way we have to pick Joe up from a MacDonald’s in Asheville NC. We arrived at the airport around 7:30 or 8:00am.

Going through security and checking baggage I personally thought was going to be a bear but it turned out not to really be that bad. It took us about an hour for us to get though both and arrive at our gate.  Upon arrival at the gate we all prepared to sit down and have a short wait at the gate. HA.  Ya right we sat at the gate for a good hour, hour and a half before they told us that our flight was having difficulties and that we had been moved to a different plane.  It was quite annoying and we all hurried over to the opposite side of the airport to catch our flight.

Once on the airplane we sat back and relaxed. It was very nice just not doing anything for a change.  Touching down in Costa Rica’s San José was really amazing seeing that I have never been anywhere really outside of the country except Russia.

San Jose Costa Rica was just amazing. The cultures, foods, clothes and other things caught me by surprise seeing that I didn’t really expect for it to have MacDonald’s, Subways and Wendy’s. It was kind of funny to see all of the everyday things that you would see in everyday America. “It’s a very home like feeling.” 

Our first night in Costa was spent getting into the flow of Costa which included checking in the Backpackers hostel and going into the small market s and buying food and just walking around and seeing all of the sights and smells of everyday Costa Rica. 

Then the real fun began. We first went to the mountains of Costa Rica to go Zip lining, horseback riding up the side of a volcano and swimming in the hot pools. My favorite memories from the hot pools was went I was going very slow down the slide to try and make Anna mad and she just slid down the slide after me and we both went flying out the end of the side. It was extremely funny. The other fun thing was sliding down the slides on our knees and going insanely fast it was lots of fun though. I also learned that the pools were heated by the volcano!! It was really, really interesting to learn about.

Next we went down to the Coast of Costa Rica to Surf, Boogie board and just play in the water.  On our first day at the beach we went down to the beach and just played in this little cove like place that was in a national park. It was really fun and I think that everyone really enjoyed just having a chill day at the park.

The next day we went surfing, buggie boarding. It was boat loads of fun and we all had a great time just chilling out and having fun in the waves.

Then we went back to San Joe and then went home and here we are. All in all it was an amazing trip to be a part of and everyone did a great job on the trip! Good Job Guys!

Allie