We started out early Friday morning,heading to Costa Rica to visit my aunt and her family for a week!
There was excitement!We,as a family,hadn't been there for like 10 years!! Before we could get to their house,though,we had to travel 2 days!
The trip was fun though! Growing up we'd travel to the states and back,by vehicle, quite often. But it had been a while since we had done a family trip like that! It was different though 'cause it was just 3 of us kids instead of 6 like "normal".but,man,I was flooded with a ton of memories of stuff we'd do as siblings while we sat at the borders waiting till Papa finished up all the paper work and stuff.also the games we'd play when getting bored and just carrying on!and we did that on this trip too,but it was different!
but My Grandma,MamaFela,was with us too! So that made traveling way more fun and interesting!:)
This was us like around 6,Friday morning getting close to the first of many border crossings.
I don't know,but I think our family might be like the only one who takes so many snacks along on a trip! Seriously,we just kept eating and eating!;)These grapes with cheese didn't last very long!they were really good!
Waiting outside the vehicle,at the Honduras border,while they fumigated the van.
We traveled all day Friday,from 4:30 am to 7:30 pm. Stayed at a hotel in Nicaragua and left the next morning around 6:00 traveled about half an hour and got to the Nica./Costa Rica border!
Even though it was early, there was a lot of buses coming through full of people.
Like I said before it was fun having MamaFela with us! Even though her arthritis got pretty bad,she still was brave to go on that long trip to visit her daughter!
I love her so much! best grandma ever!
Kendrick and Mom drinking their morning coffee!
When entering Costa Rica we saw this bus leaving Costa Rica heading to El Salvador.
Scenes along the way,
This place reminded me of driving through La Ventosa,Mexico.
This little thing was SO CUTE!!! dont you agree? a pick-up/punch bug!
The lines,and lines of trailers that we'd pass before getting to the border!
this guy had quite the ride!;)
This was the bumpiest rode ever!! wow! thankfully we only drove on it for half an hour;/
The morning before we got to Keiner and Mary's we stopped for a formal breakfast.
And then we got there! earlier than we had expected!
Tia Mary was so happy she cried. the visit we had talked about so often, was now actually happening!YAY!
We got there Saturday around 3:00 pm, we had a great afternoon together! And after we had all taken showers,which made us feel much better,we had supper and soon after went to bed!
Next day was Sunday, and it was great to visit Keiner and Mary's church.
Also on Sunday it was MamaFela's Birthday! Keiner's had bought a cake and everything for her!
My Dad,MamaFela,and Tia Mary
My 2 siblings and I,and 3 cousins posing with our dear MamaFela,the birthday girl!:)
Mmmm! the cake was sooo good!
That afternoon we went to see the waterfalls not far from their house.
We kids got out and were having fun taking pics.
Keiner explaining something to Mom and Dad,
Krista,the only relative on Papa's side that people say I look so much like.
Susanna and I had a ot of fun with her!
Kirenia! She is so picara!
Krista and Susanna!
Josue
Kendrick and Josue hit it off pretty well!
Kendrick teaching me how to shoot Josue's bbgun.(however you spell that word!);)
I can't remember when, but we went like sight seeing,i guess you would call it, around Costa Rica! and one of the places we stopped at,was at this place where there were a whole bunch of HUGE iguanas,just crawling around on trees! they were really cool to watch and take pictures of !!
this one's color was pretty.
HA! I was so happy to catch this one yawning!!
After seeing those they took us to see the volcano,did some shopping, and ate dinner.
LOL!!one night Mamafela wanted to hold each of us and wanted to make sure we took a picture!
We were laughing so hard!
We went to a water park not very far from Keiner's. here is Kirenia ready to get in the water.:)
There was this pretty river that passed around the park. Oh! plus,the pretty girls!
At this park they also had ziplines! Papa payed for all of us to go!we were excited and nervous!
Susanna, Kendrick,and I had done it before down here in E.S. so we kinda knew hows it's done,but Krista was sooo nervous!;)
all ready to go!
chepper pepper too!lol
Ahh! It was so much fun!! There were like 10 different lines plus they had 3 other things to do in between! like the connected you to a rope and swung you to the next platform! another one they let you "drop" with a pulley from the platform higher up the tree to one below! That one was so scary!!!! they gave us the choice of letting us down,fast or slow! Several of us picked fast and it made us all scream!
the cool thing was that the last several lines we would pass on top of where our parents were so they snapped a couple pics of us!
Papa and Mamafela watching!
We had so much fun that day and made a whole lot of memories!!
The night before we left Keiner's sister and her husband, who live right beside them, invited us to a supper of sea food! Here was the gigantic fish he made and cut in half for Mamafela and Papa,since they are the biggest sea food lovers!(or maybe the only ones)
oysters
I am not a big sea food fan,but I made myself try these just to taste what it was like,i didn't enjoy the slimy part but...
My Grandma was loving it though, she was so pleased with the head of the fish!
We had a great time that night! and it was so sad to think our time there was coming to an end!
We left the next morning around 4:30! Tia Mary made coffee for us before we leave,and then we had to say goodbye!;(
We drove and drove and drove that day! passed all 3 borders and finally,once we were in E.S., we stopped at a hotel at 9:30 or so!
The sun was shining so bright and the blue sky was so pretty! I had to take a picture!
Oh and I almost forgot to mention our great driver!! Even though the rest of us slept and slept, he was always wide awake! :)
Probably on e of the best drivers I know!
I can't wait to see when we will do it again!
I hope you all are having a great vacation! Merry Christmas!~Cecilia
