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Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 21st, 2010, 11:16 pm
by oldwrench
Well, our 18 days in paradise is over. Well, pretty near paradise. It's a really beautiful place, and a lot of fun. The biggest surprise...... you can drink the water pretty much anywhere in the country. You can also eat salads and all that.
The country's just the size of West Virginia and a population of 4.5 million. World's largest exporter of Pineapples. They also export coffee, bananas and micro chips. They have more than 25% of the country set aside as nature preserves and national parks. They have quite a few volcanoes, Arenal has been active for more than 20 years.

We had a rocky start, freezing drizzle here didn't slow us down much and our flight to Atlanta Georgia went well. We left Atlanta about 7pm, supposed to be a 3.5 hour flight to San Jose. An hour out over the gulf, the pilot told us the plane was experiencing mechanical problems and we were returning to Atlanta. The put us on a different plane at Atlanta and finally got us in the air again, 5 hours late. We got to San Jose around 3:30 am. we got less than 2 hours sleep that night.

Our first day we saw the national theater in San Jose. An impressive building.
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Then on to the coffee plantation, I'm sure Sakura wants to hear about that........... but that's next time.

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 4:10 pm
by Hiki
Uwaaaaaaaaaah~! PRETTY

It sucks that you had to switch planes though D:

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 4:52 pm
by Sakura
I want these angel wings...

but where the meow is the coffee? Someone said coffee. Catnip coffee!
*purrs around Oldwrench's feet* :gg:

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 26th, 2010, 2:30 pm
by oldwrench
I did promise coffee.
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That would keep Sakura happy for a week or so.

more on that later.

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 27th, 2010, 10:42 am
by Sakura
Woot there is a print on one of these bags "CATesa". This is genuine catnip coffee!

*runs off getting plane tickets*

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 27th, 2010, 10:46 am
by Sakura
*runs back and grabs a book "Plane Landing for Dummies"*

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 27th, 2010, 5:37 pm
by Dechant
oldwrench wrote:I did promise coffee.
*pukes for a week*

The pictures inside of the building look neat, luxurious art and culture similar to Europe's perhaps.

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 27th, 2010, 5:59 pm
by JHawkNH
Sakura wrote:*runs back and grabs a book "Plane Landing for Dummies"*

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 28th, 2010, 2:15 am
by Sakura
Is there a purrroblem with our database?

JHawkNH why do you have the "NToonz" sub below your post, and no text?

Re: Costa Rica vacation

Posted: February 28th, 2010, 2:25 am
by Sakura
Dechant wrote:*pukes for a week*
Ok we can continue until he get's back in a week. These sacks look like my week's consumation of coffee. CATNIP coffee.

*rolls over the floor from too much catnip, playing with a ball of yarn*

MEOW!