The Alarm Clock Went Off at 2:50 AM!

  Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
Sunday, December 21, 2008

New England experienced it's first snowstorm of the season on Friday, December 19; so, after helping the neighbors of our condo shovel the driveway and sidewalk, we finished packing. 

Packing for Montezuma, Costa Rica in the dry season means shorts, t-shirts, sandles, hiking shoes, and flip-flops and of course the eseential toiletries.  The dry season starts in mid-November and goes to about April.  After that, good luck.  Rainfall is pretty frequent and there aren't many restaurants and stores open.

So, up we were at 2:50 AM for a 5:30 AM flight and it's a good thing we did.  When we arrived at Logan Airport, all the people either vacationing or visiting family in the Caribbean or Southern Hemisphere were in line.  Additionally, all the people who were bumped on Friday and didn't make a flight on Saturday were in line. 

After the line to check in, then the line at TSA (and I forgot to take my TINY Swiss Army knife off my keychain so it was confiscated...and I bought that on our trip to Rome, too.  :-P) we only had to wait about 10 minutes before they started boarding the plane.

Anyway, to give you some idea, this is where we are headed:

Map of the Nicoya Pennisula

BTW, Oprah did a show while we were away about "Blue Zones" around the world.  A Blue Zone is a place where people live over 100 years old without any problems.  The first Blue Zone that they profiled was the Nicoya Penninsula.