Travel Day To Los Chiles, Costa Rica
December 6th, 2010
10:00 am Pack Bags
11:15 am Out of Room
11:20 am Skype with Mom
–Find
out I never had appendicitis
12:30 pm Leave Cocibolca and walk to the dock
–Thanks
for carrying my bag Tim!
1:00 pm stand in and out line several times
1:35 pm Get on boat
–It’s
a bit rocky but hopefully it steadies when we start moving
1:50 pm Rebecca is making jelly sandwiches using a candy
cane for a knife.
2:00 pm Scheduled departure time
3:08 pm Actual time of departure
–Realization
sets in that this isn’t going to be a smooth ride as I first thought.
5:15 pm Dramamine
7:05 pm Ometepe Island
–Finally
able to sleep
12:00 am Wake up, we finally have calm water.
12:30-2:00 am Sleep on bench
–Eat
a pack of Oreos
2:30-3:30 am Sleep on floor
3:30-5:30 am Sleep on bench. Again. Not super restful.
6:37 am Arrival in San Carlos
6:45 am Off boat
7:15 am Get our packs off the boat
–Immigration
opens at 8
–Next
boat leaves at 10:30
7:25 am Walk to park
–Let
the wait begin
7:42 am Debating what food we have to eat
7:47 am Becca begins to serenade us with her guitar
8:10 am Sweet Bread, Cookies, and Bananas for breakfast
–Find
out we may not take a boat but a bust instead.
9:08 am Find out we have to take the boat because the bus
actually doesn’t exist. Head to
immigration.
9:45 am Finally get called grab our stuff to go, the boat
driver sees us and says no way.
9:50 am Sitting back down waiting for next boat scheduled to
leave at 1.
11:18 am Get called to go through again.
–Stand
in line to get stamped for Costa Rica
11:50 am Get on boat surprising early which NEVER happens.
EVER.
1:12 pm We leave.
–Never
get excited for something being early on the race.
1:46 pm See a monkey for the first time ever in the wild!
2:15 pm Arrive in Los Chiles, Costa Rica and go through what
we think is immigration.
2:35 pm Start walking to bus
2:45 pm Get to actual immigration
3:05 pm Passport STAMPED! Woohoo : )
–Now
to figure out where we are supposed to be and how to get there.
4:25 pm Walk to bus
4:37 pm Bus station to wait some more..
4:56 pm Get on SWEET double decker bus.
–Obviously
on the upper deck
6:08 pm Get dropped off on the side of the road get our bags loaded up in our contacts car then wait for him to drive them to the farm unload them and come back for us.
6:15 pm Begin epic worship session on the side of the road. Passing around leftover sweet bread and cookies and a community 3 liter of pepsi.
6:52 pm 15 people pile into a car made for 5. Let me tell you it was pretty intense.
But now we are at our ministry site for the month which is basically a farm in the middle of the jungle away from everything. Still not entirely sure what we will be doing as far as ministry I do know though that it is rainy season and we don’t do anything when it rains. Exciting. And as far as internet we will have it once a week on Friday’s so thats the day you can look for updates from me.
Sorry this was a long blog but hopefully you enjoyed it. It was a pretty intense travel day but fun none the less 🙂
Also as a small sidenote I have about $9,200 dollars in my support account and we have a deadline on December 31st we have to be at $10,000 so if you would like to give and have it go on this years taxes it would be the perfect time to help me reach my deadline! Thanks for all your support and prayers I definitely couldn’t be here doing this without every one of you!
