July 19th

July 19, 2008

Today was kind of a blah day. We rode on a bus for about 16 to 18 hours from Tigulcigalpa, Honduras to San Jose Costa Rica! Buses are completely different in C.A. than in The States, the bus tickets were $45 and we got two meals! It was amazing! The seat reclined almost all the way back, it was awesome for sleep and I took Dramamean, which helped A LOT!
I slept a lot of the way and then once we got to the Honduras Nicaragua border we had to get off the bus and I didn’t know why we were getting off so I just left all my stuff on the bus and Scott said that was bad because someone could have stolen our stuff, so we had to watch the bus the whole time, making sure no one took anything. The bottom of the bus opened and we had to grab our bags and the people at the border rummaged through them, they just knocked on the drum that I got for my brother and then put everything back. Some of the girls had not packed discretely and we found that the phrase “air your dirty laundry” was more then appropriate for this situation. We were also mauled by at least a hundred boys, men and women once we got off the bus, to exchange currencies or take our food or just be in our faces.
We also to our surprise gave them our passports, that was scary! I didn’t think I was going to see it again, but once we cleared customs we were called back on the bus by our names on our passports and got them back then.
After that they served us lunch at about 2 pm which is pretty normal lunch time for them and it was kind of like KFC style.
Later in the afternoon we had to go through the same luggage thing at the Nicarugua Costa Rica border, but it was a little organized and Scott wasn’t sure if all the people that had packed t-shirts for him were going to be able to take them across without paying. Then we got back on the bus and finished up the trip to Costa Rica and we saw the most beautiful sunset in Costa Rica and watched some ridiculous movie about a chimanese being like James Bond…Julio actually saw it in theater with his neice!
We finally got in to Costa Rica late and got into the Seminary around 11. All the girls stayed in one room, with one bathroom, the boys were in the room behind us and Scott in a fellow missionary’s house. Once settle we all went to bed.