Costa Rica Day 1

Today we travelled to CR...left late Saturday night to arrive in San Jose the next day. I was extremely nervous about our vacay as we were off to an adventurous start in a foreign country. Not something I have done in a while and especially without an adult present! Our arrival was scary as we interacted with new people and saw the city in some devastation...it was a very rough introduction to the country. I couldn´t wait to get out into the countryside. We headed straight to the first hostel we were staying at. Hostel Pangea aka the party hostel. lol. We enjoyed the paintings on the wall, the pool although we left it untouched, and the bar with the outdoor deck. We also met some British guys at our hostel who were hilarious. We made fun of each other´s culture and accent for most of the night, came up with funny slang names for things, and of course had our first alcohol in the country. Yum! We made fun of them for having one small bed in a huge room whereas we had a bunk bed with two beds. ¡Muy comodo! The shower was shared but we ended up using the coed shower downstairs by the pool. Quite nice, with tall countertops where the sinks were. We did a lot of research and realized that we wanted to head out of the city as soon as possible. We had planned with the boys, Tim (who´s from Croydon) and Jim (very high maintenance, couldn´t stop complaining about girly stuff) to go to Volcan Arenal or La Fortuna by renting a car but they decided to take a flight so we chose to go along with that idea. The flight was definitely a good plan as it would have taken about 9 hours to get up to La Fortuna with the recent rain and bad roads in the area. We slept very well although we heard music all night. We were so tired from travelling all night and day!