Costa Rica. A few travel shots...
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Anyone who knows Tina knows she wants to travel......a lot. Guess I better
get cracking then uh?? I've always said that I would like to find a place
that we could return to on a regular basis and Tina's consistently has objected
to that idea. I know, I know, doesn't sound like us, since I'm more the zen-like
vagabond and she's the conservative minded accountant brain after stability
and all,......go figure.
This time it's different though. We found Costa Rica and Tina wants to go back.
So do I. We had fun and I would like to go back forever. It's an awesome
place, awesome people, awesome country, and our holiday was underscored by
the fact that we met some awesome people from Vancouver, which I know is
also an awesome place...(Mission, BC, actually..).
Anyhoo, Costa Rica gets a perfect score. If you don't like Iguanas
however, do not go.
Oh, I have to tell you a story as told to us by the Johnson's, the
family from Mission BC. When they had originally left to go on their two
week holiday they were turned away at the airport because somebody there
told them they could not go to Costa Rica unless their 8 year old had her
own passport (not a passport combined on her mom's, which is what most children
use...). This person even had a faxed memo which proved this new requirement.
This, needless to say, skewed their plans terribly. They had to leave the
airport, work on getting an emergency passport, changed their plans entirlely
by trying to shift their two weeks ahead by a full week...on and on, it ended
up costing several thousand dollars and an extra lost week. So, you can imagine
their shock when we showed up with an 8 year old who made it fine on Tina's
passport.
When we returned Tina called our travel agent to give her a heads up on this
vital bit of information. The travel agent called back within the hour and
said she had just got off the phone with the consulate in Ottawa and turns
out there is no such a requirement. Go figure?
I love to read your comments or your travel ideas and suggestions.
