I am sitting in a hotel room in San Jose, Costa Rica. My flight home tomorrow is to leave at 11:05. There is a hurricane that is to hit southern Texas tonight and tomorrow so it might be interesting to see if a plane can get to Costa Rica from Houston in the morning to pick me up.
I can’t change flights to a different airline until United cancels the flight I am on. I have travel insurance that will help me do that if that should happen. I keep checking the weather forecast for Houston and it doesn’t show 100% chance of rain for tonight or tomorrow except for one hour. Hmmmm…. We shall see what happens.
We left our cabins around 8:20 this morning. We got to the tiny little airport at 9:25 for our 9:50 flight. Almost as soon as we got there they took us to our little plane and we boarded. We landed at 10:00 as we took off at 9:40. This is the first airline I have flown that departs and arrives ahead of schedule.
The retreat leader is staying in Costa Rica another couple of days so we said goodbye to her at the tiny airport. The other two and myself said goodbye at the San Jose airport. Both of them had flights today and were hoping to make it home late evening tonight.
I went to the shuttle bus area and was able to find my shuttle after waiting for a bit. I had been told it would be a blue bus but it was green. One of the guys helping people find a taxi let me know that it was the shuttle I was to get in. He helped me load my bag into the shuttle.
Hotel check-in is not to happen until 3:00 but the lady at the desk recognized me as one of the people stuck in the elevator and she found a room for me right away. That was nice as I really didn’t want to sit in the lobby for four hours.
I came up to my room and took a short nap and then went down to the hotel restaurant and had lunch/dinner. The food was good and the service was nice. Got a big bottle of water and came back to my room.
I went down to the third floor and got a bucket of ice. I had iced tea for lunch. They blended the juice of either a lemon or orange into the tea but it was delicious and oh how I needed some iced tea. It has been a blessing to have iced water this afternoon. I missed ice!
I am finishing up reading a really good book by Jodi Picoult. She has become one of my favorite authors. Her books always have an unexpected twist at the end and I am waiting for that to happen in this one.
Looking forward to getting home, hopefully tomorrow. I am preparing myself mentally that I might not make it home tomorrow but we shall see what happens. This airport is even smaller than Kansas City is and there are not lots of options for flights.
This has been an amazing trip and one I will remember for a long time. I like vacations that are adventures and this one has been full of adventure and unexpected happenings. So far, all is well even with the adventures.
Still shifting through in my head all that has happened this week and all that I learned about myself. I have a deeper appreciation of the quiet, simpler life I am creating for myself. I am grateful I am not in my 30’s and having to figure it all out and balance raising children and healing myself. I have a lot of respect and admiration for the young women I met who are doing just that.
Grateful for this opportunity to have this adventure, grateful I have nothing pressing I have to be home for immediately, and grateful I have travel insurance in case I have to change plans tomorrow.