What are we doing in Costa Rica?

We made it! We had a long day, and not without stress, but we’re safe and sound.

Some highlights:

• our property manager arriving 45 minutes late to pick up our money and keys
• driving around and around the airport looking for the car rental office which turned out to be half a mile away with no signs
• the $25 per-person departure tax!
• finding out one of our bags was too heavy to fly
• having the sinking realization that our 70-minute layover in Houston did not account for baggage claim, customs, and re-checking our bags
• miraculously making our connection!
• Dean being “that baby” on the Houston-Austin flight

Before I went to bed last night I bought a six-pack of Fireman’s #4 and some Taco Cabana. I kept spontaneously laughing out loud in the grocery store: How could I choose from all the milk? Shelves upon shelves of maple syrup!! We’re all so amazed right now by the opulence of our Texas life that we’re walking around in a kind of daze. The Internet is so fast! The U.S. quarter dollar coin is so small!

We’re not done blogging just yet. We have a little post-processing to do.

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