in Costa Rica

before i could leave LA, the guy who was processing my boarding pass said i had to buy a ticket to leave  Costa Rica to anywhere in the states as i don't have one yet and they dont allow you to enter the country if you dont have a return ticket.  I told them I have a bus ticket to leave the country the day after I arrive, but it is with my friends in Costa Rica. That wasn't good enough, so i bought  the cheapest tkt he could sell me. he told me that after I go thru immigration & customs in Costa Rica to go to the airline and tell them about my bus tkt and ask them to refund my tkt straight away...when I got to CR, i wasn't asked at all if I had a return tkt. I was passed thru immigration and customs No Problemo...Paul and MC were there to meet me. I told them what i had to do, so we went to find the airline office. it was closed...we stood around wondering what to do, MC looked online for a phone number for the airline. She found one just as someone came along to the office.
We were told to wait for 5mins and some staff would be along to help us, so we did and some staff came. They served me, refunded my $ back onto my card and we were done....whew...

we left the airport to catch a bus bak to our hostel
for the night. we got a bus we thought would take us where we wanted to go, but no. as we were going Paul said 'this doesn't look like where we should be'
we came to a stop at a bus junction, everyone got off except us. MC queried the driver about where we thought we were goin. He said he would take us but we had to pay again...so we did, then we sat waiting on the bus. eventually people came and got on and we were off back the way we had come from and eventually we came to our stop near our hostel.

                                                                                 we dropped off my bags and then we were out the door again on the hunt for a charger & card reader for MC's mac. This took us on a big walk thru the streets of CR. The drivers here i would describe as crazy and in a hurry. They always tooting their horns. u must be especially careful crossing the road, its best to run across. we managed to find the card reader but not the charger. we then had a crazy ride in a taxi to the bus station to pik up our bus tkts...from there was a short walk back to hostel. Paul went to grab Pizza, we went back to our room.

 tomorrow we need to be at the bus stop by 6.30am. we should be home (Nica) by 2-3pm, hopefully we are as Paul has an elders mtg at 4pm...

I am looking forward to arriving at my destination and getn settled. ....I really appreciate Paul & MC meeting me at airport today..... its 7.30pm, time for shower and a moe ....