Dónde Está el Baño?

Traveling to Costa Rica was a lot easier in my head. The goodbyes were easier, parking at the airport was easier, and the layover in Miami was easier. But life never goes according to plan so of course everything wasn't as easy as I had made it out to be. Saying goodbye to my mom and Katie this morning was extremely difficult. I nearly cried in the process. Parking the car with my dad at Logan airport was also a lot easier in my head - we circled the property probably two or three times. But once all that was said and done, the goodbye with him wasn't as easy as I had anticipated. Getting through security and onto my first plane was cake, until we got to Miami, where they were experiencing thunderstorms so our plane had to circle the area for 30-45 minutes. This of course worried me because my layover only left an hour between flights. So getting off the plane, I booked it across the airport. Let me tell you, that airport is easily the length of 495509814 football fields.

So I ran from gate D16 to gate D46. That may not look far, but damn that is a far walk! But after power walking for what seemed like miles, I get to the gate only to see that my flight was pushed back another hour! But regardless, I made it to Costa Rica safely, and of course snagged some cliche plane pictures along the way: 

Sunrise over Boston

Flying in over Miami

Flying over Cuba!!!

Hills of Costa Rica

We flew over Honduras and Nicaragua on our was to Costa Rica, which was really beautiful to watch from the windows of the plane. Nicaragua had such beautiful lakes and you could see the beautiful Pacific coast from the city of Malaga. Honduras was equally as beautiful, but I thought it was amazing how we could see little settlements of people in the mountains from the plane! Such an amazing experience. 

When we finally landed in Costa Rica, we were taken to the hotel in San Jose by taxi, where we were brought to our rooms and then taken to a little restaurant called ComeVerde. This place was so cute - they only serve all natural foods (also vegan and vegetarian friendly!), and its basically a create-your-own-food place. They had lists of meats and veggies and dressings and you could make wraps or salads or sandwiches. Such a neat little place! Also, there was a cute little kitty: 

But anyways, that basically sums up the first day of my Costa Rican adventure. Much more to come!