getting there...

I made it to Costa Rica in one piece. The trip here was ridiculously smooth and hassle free! It was like they were trying to get us out of the country! We had to buy two separate tickets (one from KC to DFW to Fort Lauderdale and the other from Fort Lauderdale to San Jose) We had a small layover in Fort Lauderdale and I was worried we would have to get our bags and go to another terminal with international security etc... Turns out they were able to combine the tickets and check the bags all the way. The only glitch was that Anna´s shampoo exploded inflight in her bag.

Our first stop was San Jose, the capitol of Costa Rica. It has about a million or so people. We were staying at the Costa Rica Backpackers hostel (costaricabackpackers.com) in ¨nice¨part of town. It was a very chill place with a pool, hammocks, small restaurant and cool people. We shared a room of 4 bunk beds with an English Couple, Australian couple, and a girl from Germany. All was good except a noise and the next door baño woke us up often. Our plan was to stay another night and figure out the first part of our trip. We abandoned that plan after speaking with a KU grad this morning. He had just spent months in Central America and was leaving for the States today. He gave us some suggestions on where on how to go to Nicaragua (which is the country we are most excited about visiting) and we decided to get on with it! Some we took a noon bus to Liberia, Costa Riace which took 4 hours and are staying at the Hotel Liberia (nothing to speak about). In the morning we are going to try and catch a 5:30am bus to the border. Our first stop will be San Juan Del Sur a beach town in Nicaragua near Rivas. I hope to write more from there... and post pictures.