Happy Birthday Jym

We celebrated our return to DC with a Sunday Funday style Sinful Saturday that culminated in a fun party for Jym. Too much champers and the night ended in madness.

Back to San Jose

We drove Miss Carriage back to San Jose and flew home. A bit of drama, but fun nonetheless!

I'll add more detail later.

J

Canopy Tour

Today was our canopy tour day. B/T went with me and the rest of the drunkies went to the beach and shopping. I had a great time, but recommend doing such an adventure early in the vacation when there has been little alcohol consumption and alot of sleep the night before!

Sailing is fun

We took an afternoon snorkeling, dinner, and sunset cruise. Wow

Ocean Pacific

...or rather Pacific Ocean. We spent mid-day at M/C's pool bar and then the afternoon at the beach. It was breathtaking. I've never seen nicer waves, a wider beach, or such beauty at the ocean. Swimming naked at La Playita (clothing optional beach) was also quite interesting. One must take the waves head on or back on. Nothing sideways will do. I'm sure you get the picture.

Manuel Antonio - Holla

We drove to Manuel Antonio today. OMG - the bridges, the roads, the cliffs, the one way places. Ridiculous. And to top it off, there was a detour through a shanty town.

M/C's hotel is awesome with a fantastic view. It is called La Mansion Inn and was quite secluded. They delivered champaigne and fresh fruit to the room shortly after our arrival. Very nice. The rest of us stayed at Villa Roca which is not quite as plush, but has an equally impressive view.

We ate dinner at Aqua Azul and ended the day in our pool. After nearly giving up, our clothes arrived at 8:58 PM

Alive and Well - but in the same clothes

The trip started as an adventure. Tim, Catrina, Michael, Anthony, and I decided to go out on Friday night (shock) and we all powered through except Timmy who went to bed so he could drive us to the airport.

Flight from DC - Philly was delayed 2 hours (walkway thing had a flat and couldn't pull to the plane)

They told us we missed our connection and would have to wait until today to get the 9:45 flight to Costa Rica. Fortunately our connection was delayed and like the movies, I ran like wild and got to the gate just in time for them to hold it for us! We made the flight yesterday, but our luggage did not. I tried to borrow clothes from Anthony, who was on a different flight, but a pair of shorts for each thigh wasn't working out so well.

Needless to say, in our travel sweats and t-shirts we didn't go out and explore the nightlife. We sat at the bar and drank a gagillion beers and vodkas AND had dinner. Total Bill $83 US for seven people. Friends - this is fantastic and this is at a 5 star hotel bar too. We finished the night in the casino, which was on the 17th floor with amazing night views of the city.

Ms. Carriage is fantastic. She wasn't the one in the pic I've been carrying, but similiar. She's sorta pale yellow green. Hysterical.

We're meeting everyone at 8:30 for breakfast and then driving to the beach. US Air says our luggage will be delivered to us this evening, but they don't electronically track baggage in this country so they said not to bother to call for status because they won't be able to tell us until it is dropped off. We may be going shopping because the four of us can't possibly wear these clothes another day. Thankfully our next hotel is clothing optional at the pool...it is an option. Better than stinky sweaty travel clothes!

Bill and Tom were on our connecting flight and Anthony had his own adventures on his flight, but that's a story for another day!

Hope all is well and hope my DC friends are showing Lisa a good time!

Power Through

All the others are in bed. I am trying to wake them up because I was the undesignated self-elected power through boy. We have to leave for the airport in 45 minutes! Time to shower and roll out! Text messages are distributed...lets see what happens!

I will not miss my plane!

Vacation Kick Off

Peyton just cleared our table. I'm drinking vodka and everyone else is drinking beer. Just kidding-those are from the March madness drunkies, but I have had my share of drinks and shots. Definately a disproportionate (sp?) amount for the 1.25 hours I have been here since packing.

Ms. Carriage

Yup - the name is disturbing, but it won out over Vanorexia and a few others I probably shouldn't post out here on the interweb. Seven of us leave at 5 AM for Costa Rica in the AM. My sister and our new roomie are housesitting while we are gone.

Our agenda includes renting a 12 passenger van (I'm the designated driver) and driving from San Jose to Manuel Antonio through the rain forest. We're calling her Ms. Carriage and pray she'll get us through. Actually we just pray she is remotely modern. The pics of the vehicles on Central American car rental websites may not accurately depict our transportation. At this point we believe she is a Kia Pregio, or similar.

We've packed all the bug spray and sunscreen as required and will update as possible along the way. I'll probably end up backdating my journal entries as time behind a computer is not really on the agenda for our trip! In fact, not much is on the agenda besides sun, beach, cocktails, and a few zip-line and rappelling excursions. Fun times!

Welcome to America...I mean U St.

My best girlfriend Tish's sister Toya moved in with us today...well yesterday since the clock turned. Love the mobile blogging from Solly's Tavern.

Sunday Funday

We crossed the moat for Sunday Funday at Freddies where we had a nice buffet brunch and all the champers we could drink for $14.99 per person. Several enjoyed the fact we could smoke in side, but CS was sick and she would have enjoyed it the most. We celebrated RK's latest birthday. I think he's 35 (again.)

JM was visiting from Cincy and it was great to have her with us for the weekend. Fun times.

my mouth hurts

Gross. I despise DJ Lyons at this very moment, but he got hit by a train so my pain is better than his death.