WE MADE IT

Bienvenidos!

Hello Everyone!

Well to start out, we all made it here safe and sound. We had a few glitches along the way, but everything is good now! I called and I asked for a cab about 5:30 this morning and the secretary for the cab service (I was going to the buffalo airport from UB south) told me that she would have them come and get me at 5:15 because they were going to be busy. I woke up at 4:45 and at 5:00 my phone started ringing and it was the cab driver! He was 15 minutes early and I was no where near ready. Then on the way to the airport, my taxi cab driver got pulled over. 70mph in a 30mph Zone. I was of course at the airport VERY early now because my cab came so early. After I got to the airport, we boarded at about 7:50am and took a flight to Charlotte NC that took about 1 1/2 hours to get to. Once in Charlotte we immediately boarded on to our plane to get us to Costa Rica. It was certainly a rush to get there ...
We got off of the flight and Daniel was waiting for us with a sign that said "Brockport" and we loaded all of our things onto the bus that was taking us to the hostel. We drove right though down town Costa Rica and saw the city! WOW. I kept thinking to myself that it wasn't real. It was just like what I saw on TV when I watched the Discovery Channel or National Geographic. The houses are so architecturally beautiful down here. The city looks very historic, and I have seen some things that make me grateful for what I have in the states.
The weather here is beautiful and I love it. Once we got off the bus at our Hostel, we met the owners. I CANT STRESS ENOUGH HOW WONDERFUL THESE PEOPLE ARE. Everyone is loving and family oriented. I feel right at home, happy and content. We had an amazing dinner which consisted of Rice and Bean dip it was so good. There was fresh fruit for us to eat and it was amazing ... 8 of us are staying in a hostel that is owned by the same owners down the street, the hostel is gorgeous. There will be pictures tomorrow. We went to the market today to buy some water and snacks :) I only had American Dollars for now and no Colones, but that is most certainly okay because I was successfully able to discuss this wither he (in Spanish) and the clerk was so nice! However, I did not know what I was buying really- thankfully I found some chips (Papas) haha! and some Cheezy Poofs!
It is hard speaking Spanish at first, but the more that I am using it, the easier it is becoming!
tomorrow we get to sleep in and go on a tour of the City- San Jose! We get to go shopping and walk and look around and TAKE PICTURES! yay!!

Well the hostel family has our Brockport family singing Karaoke! I must go watch

PICTURES

All my love
-Kara