We've arrived! And to prove it, we're here!

Although there were times today that I wondered if it would ever happen. I don't want to make a long-winded and boring post, but I can say that David has enough material for his school project journal just from today, and we've only just arrived!

I shall hit upon the main events:

1. We were nearly an hour late getting to the airport, actually arriving with less than an hour to go before take off. This was a combination of Rob remembering me telling him we were leaving at 6:30(it was 6:00), me forgetting to leave time for the long term parking shuttle driver to meander through the airport and get us to the terminal, and me telling the hotel staff to wake us up at 4:00, when we absolutely had to be at the check-in desk at 4:30.

2. In Houston, they lost the plane. Yep. A Boeing 737. "It came in last night" they said, "but now we don't know where it is". Eventually someone found it and brought it to the gate. We were 40 minutes late leaving.

3. We had a medical emergency on the flight. The poor girl (between 20&25) was standing in the lineup waiting for the washroom, when she fell over like a cut tree. She took some time to come around, and while that was happening we kind of hovered over Texas, waiting to figure out what we should do, then the oxygen seemed to help and they decided to keep going. Then while we were over El Salvador, she started seizing. What the poor girl really needed was air pressure, but she had to wait for Costa Rica for that, so she just kept seizing periodically. Fortunately there were a couple of nurses on board that helped her out, and by the time we landed and the medics arrived she was stablized and had an IV started. Another long delay while they got her safely off the plane.

4. Visit to Ruth's went without incident, and we stopped in Atenas for bocas at Los Mangos Dos. Mmmmmm. Ceviche.....

5. There was a landslide between Atenas and San Martin and the road was closed, so we had to detour down some very windy, poorly paved mountainous back roads. It was (of course) dark, and rainy, and we really couldn't see anything.

We finally made it here to Jaco at about 8:00pm (10 our time). We had expected to be here by about 2:30 or 3:00. So we're tired and kind of grimy, but in some strange sort of a way it is really good to be back.