Friday, April 29, 2022

Finally made it to Costa Rica! We're Here!

THE DREADED TRAVEL DAY...🦥

With only a few hours sleep last night we sluggishly got up at 2:30 AM and were out the door at about 3:25 AM this morning!

Ugh! Torture! Where's the Coffee?🦜

Got to Detroit Metro Airport quickly for our 6:20AM departure and surprisingly the 2 Spirit flights we were on were seamless and not that bad. *Oh and NO USELESS MASKS! 

We ended up getting in to San José Costa Rica at about 12:20 PM (2:20pm our time).  Costa Rica is in the central time zone but they do not observe daylight savings thus the 2 hour time difference.🦎

Unfortunately when we got to the San José airport we had to go through immigration and customs which took alot of time!  Tons of people visiting Costa Rica!  Another downer was when we finally found our driver it started raining pretty hard.  But we are in a Rainforest! 🦥 🌴

After about a 20 minute ride we finally arrived at at the Xandari Resort and Spa in Alajuela just outside of San José.  Had a welcome punch, checked in, had a very late lunch, came back to our room, dozed off for a little bit, then went back to the same onsite restaurant and  had a very late light dinner with wine. Now we're back at our room for the night! Being "Bushed" is an understatement! 🐸

The grounds here at Xandari are beautiful!  The tropical foliage is fantastic and the nighttime sounds are amazing (not quite Africa amazing though)!  We have a completely free day tomorrow here so after breakfast we will explore the grounds in greater detail, visit their waterfalls, hang out at the pool, go in the hot tub and and in the evening take an Uber into Alajuela to see what's going on there!🐒

*Fyi, San José is the capital of Costa Rica and the largest city in the country with 1.4 million people.  It also sits at an elevation of 3800'. Alajuela sits just outside of San José 🐒

Signing off for the night...  Next blog entry sometime tomorrow evening!🐬


































Good Night








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