Costa Rica Day 1

Honey, I'm home! The trip was absolutely amazing. Costa Rica is a beautiful country, and we had so much fun. I didn't have my computer and I only had internet access on a very old phone I had taken so that I could email my mom, so over the next few days I'll be reliving the trip and the things we did.

Monday, June 22 10:30 p.m.
I'm including this on day one because there's no use in making an entire blog post for an hour and a half. Our mission team, with the exception of one of our leaders who met us in Atlanta, got together at our high school.

We weighed our bags (the airline we were flying had a forty pound weight limit) and loaded them all on the bus. After checking that everyone had their passport and saying a prayer, we were off!

The drive to Atlanta took somewhere between three and four hours. We got to the airport, checked in, and headed to our gate. While we waited we ate breakfast from various places in the terminal. Then we took a flight to Fort Lauderdale, which took about an hour and a half. We had about an hour layover in Fort Lauderdale before boarding the nearly three hour flight to San Jose, Costa Rica. Once we arrived in San Jose, we had to go through customs and baggage claim before finally meeting our group leader and heading off into the country.

We stopped and ate lunch at a buffet in WalMart (yeah, we were surprised, too!) before going on the two hour drive to Santa Clara, our leader's hometown and the location of our first hotel. 

The pictures I took don't do the country justice. The scenery is so green and lush; it's amazing. Once we got to our hotel, we unloaded and had some time to ourselves before meeting for dinner. We skipped the devotional for the night, seeing as everyone was so tired from the travelling, and headed for bed.