Today we woke up, packed, played a few games then got in a large van and hit the road. We had to travel from La Fortuna to Manuel Antonio. Again, the drive should have been much shorter but due to the roads it took something like 5 or 6 hours. Not the way you want to spend a vacation day but it was well worth it to be able to visit Manuel Antonio. We stopped and got lunch at one of the roadside restaurants. It was hot and muggy as we got closer to the coast... I will admit I was a little grumpy again. Traveling (well motion sickness really) and being hot does that to me. I need to work on that if I want to travel through Europe this summer.
When we got to the town our hotel was in we past a small, cheap looking hotel that has the same name as ours. I was glad when the bus driver passed it, glad we dodged that bullet. Then he told us he had accidentally passed our hotel and we had to turn around. I was really nervous as I have heard about hotel scams with fake pictures and reviews...
Luckily, It turned out to be beautiful. Better even that the last one. We even had a King size bed! YAY! There was some sort of mix up with Mikes parents room so they ended up in a 3 bedroom condo with a kitchen and huge living/dining room area. It was the perfect place for all 10 of us to get together and play games and visit. I wish we would have been able to stay at this place longer. It was really the perfect set up for our traveling situation. Plus the best was a 5 minute bus ride away and the bus cost $2 round trip. Not shabby. We got unpacked and outside
We got unpacked and outside just in time to see the sun set over the ocean. We went to dinner at the hotel that evening then started the pinocle tournament that had been talked up since we started planning the trip back in June of 2011. Mike and I started the tournament playing against his parents. Didn't seem fair - seasoned veterans verses the newbies (we only learned how to play in July.) Our game was pretty long. We finally had to call it a night after both of us had gone into the negative -800 range and then back into the low positives. As always it was a lot of fun to spend time with the whole family.
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