Costa Rican Honeymoon- Day 1

On Monday, June 17th, Will and I woke up at 3:00 am to head to the airport and start our honeymoon!  After a delayed boarding call at DFW (how can anyone be delayed at 5:15 in the morning?!?), we boarded our plane and set for Miami, then on to Costa Rica! 

Arrival in Costa Rica was chaos, people everywhere, jostling to get in line to hand someone your passport (my first passport stamp, thank you very much), trying to find baggage claim, and going through their version of customs.  Costa Rican customs went down like this- get in line, put your bags on a conveyor belt that went through an x-ray machine, and pick them up on the other side.  I never saw anyone actually looking at the x-ray screens...

After finding our transportation, we set out for an hour ride to our resort.  Our driver was nice, but spoke very little English, and Will and I don't speak Spanish.  He did know a few words of English and tried to point things out as we drove along a very bumpy road (sugarcane was one English word he had down). 

We arrived at our hotel and found out we were upgraded to a beach front villa!  The hotel said it was because we were on our honeymoon, I think it was because several villas were getting new roofs, so those weren't being used.  Anyway, our room wasn't ready yet, so we walked around our resort and had a snack before we were given our room keys and a ride to our room.  I unpacked while Will crashed on the couch in our living room.  We called and made dinner reservations, went to a sushi making class where Will learned how to make a salmon roll, and went for a walk on the beach (my first time in the Pacific Ocean)! 

Over dinner, Will and I decided that even though our hotel was offering free Wi-Fi, we would keep our phones locked up in the safe and disconnect this week.  This was one of the best decisions of the week, and it made me laugh at all the people we saw on their phones all week.   

We went to bed early, as we had been up for almost 20 hours at this point.  We laughed as we flipped through the TV channels filled with some of our favorite shows with Spanish subtitles or dubbed over in Spanish.  The TV didn't stay on for long though, as both of our eyes were drooping within a few moments of crawling under the covers. 

Stay tuned for Day 2!