All In A Day

Well we are a little worn from travel.  If you have been following me on facebook then you know our travel day yesterday was quite eventful.  But, oh so thankful that we made it safely.  And all 14 pieces of luggage made it too!!!!!!!  I mean it wouldn't be an adventure without a story.  Long story put short, our dog did not get to come with us despite all the appropriate paperwork that had been completed and we had 2 carry on suitcases that a lady made us check pushing our checked baggage to over the limit by 2 pieces.  That cost a whopping $300 for those pieces.  If I hadn't dissolved into a bucket full of tears at this point maybe I could have coherently told her that I saw several other passengers for that same flight with the exact same piece of carry-on luggage.  Oh well, what do you do?

1st day in Costa Rica

We headed out this morning to Kay's, a wonderful restaurant for Gringos.  She makes some amazing biscuits and sausage gravy.  Olivia and Logan remember eating there last year and were looking so forward to it (especially since we didn't have supper last night).  By the time we got through customs and got our baggage last night and made it into Atenas it was after 9:00 and everything was closed.  No Kay's this morning.  She was there but no cooking because they were replacing something in her kitchen.  So, plan B, our next favorite breakfast place in Atenas.  Fueled the kids up with good food.

Olivia and I headed to the bank while David and the other three kids headed to the park.  Can I say Olivia and I got the better end of the deal, well at least we think so.  We didn't mind the 45 minute wait to exchange money because there was air conditioning.  Yes, I admit, I am spoiled and really enjoy the air conditioning.

Next order of business was getting me a cell phone that works in Costa Rica.  We have had one for a while and just recharge minutes on it.  It is a process here to get a cell phone.  You buy it at one place and go to another place to purchase minutes.  We now have two working cell phones.  Yay!

Can I just say my kids have been fabulous and such troopers.  So, reward was ice cream!!!!  Funny how both Olivia and Logan knew exactly where the ice cream place was geographically located in this town.  They both remembered from there trip here last summer.

The house that we rented is out much farther than we thought.  There are no buses that come out this far and a taxi ride into town and back is $12.  Since David will most likely be traveling everyday we need to find something that is much closer to town.  So, next on the list today was searching for somewhere else to live.  We knew we were going to be doing this anyways just thought it would be next week before we started looking.  We looked at the only 2 houses that are available.  Realtor is negotiating with the owner and will hopefully let us know something tomorrow.  


Made a quick grocery stop to get us through tomorrow and then headed back to the house.  The kids' little legs were so tired from all the walking all over town.  They were just plum worn out.  They were so tired they couldn't hardly hold their heads up when we Skyped with grandparents.

Please continue to pray for us and our children.  They are all going through so many changes in their little lives that they just don't know what to think.  We have moved them away from everything they have ever known, walked their little legs off and they looked like this by 7:30.