Sunset on Conchal Beach
It is our first day in Costa Rica. We left Saskatoon yesterday afternoon, flew to Calgary, and then on to Toronto where we stayed overnight. This morning it was very foggy as we took the shuttle van to the airport, and it turns out that this fog had an effect on our trip. We got to the airport in plenty of time, cleared security, and then bought a sandwich to eat on the plane flight. However when we got to the gate there was no plane. The crew were there waiting, and eventually they moved us over by one gate. We hadn’t even started boarding by the time the plane was scheduled for takeoff, and eventually we learned why we were an hour late boarding. Because of the fog the plane we were scheduled to use could not land in Toronto, but was diverted to Hamilton, So they had to locate another plane for us and get it ready.
Eventually we did get off the ground, and had a very good flight south. We landed about an hour late though, and fortunately our shuttle driver was still waiting for us after we cleared customs (which was a very simple process).
The driver waited while I took money in colones from an ATM, then we headed to Brasilito A short way down the road I realized that I had made a mistake and taken out 10000 colones, when I realy wanted 100000. I’d made a mistake on the conversion value. Our driver stopped at another ATM and we got out the correct amount this time,
When we got to Brasilito he tried to help me get a SIM for the phone, but the clerk in the store could not get it to work. It registered in the phone, but never registered with the phone company, so eventually we gave up. The hotel here has wifi, though not strong, so we’ll see if that is good enough for use.
When we checked in the clerk had no record of us. However when we produced the email confirmation she gave us a room and later she said that she had mixed our name and date with someone else. It is a small room, but adequate. After we’d unpacked a bit we walked down the beach for a km or so to Playa Conchal. The sun was setting as we walked back to the hotel where we ate a nice supper of Mahi-Mahi.