Saturday July 11 we headed to the airport with Aaron and Christen and Alydia. We left Alana, Addy and Allden behind with Grandma Hunsaker. My mom will sleep over at our house Monday through Thursday and then Kayleen will take over again on the weekend. We flew out of Phoenix on US Airways around noon and arrived in San Jose Costa Rica around 6:30pm. We met up with Brett’s friend from Intel at the rental car place and he helped us find our hotel. We stayed at Casa Alegre we had a nice big room and made a baby bed for Alydia. Then we headed out to find some fast food and found Wendy’s-pretty lame that we fly to another country and find the American fast food. Brett had been really sick this entire week leading up to the trip he had stomach problems but he had a blessing and he was feeling better.
Sunday July 12, we got up early and had the typical Costa Rican breakfast including Gallo Pinto, scrambled eggs and toast it was delicioso. Then we headed out to get to Bocas Del Toro Panama. On the way we stopped to take a picture of the temple.It was a very long day of travel and it took us about 10 hours to get there. When we got to the border we parked our car at a lady’s house that we paid to watch the car. Then we went through the Costa Rican side to stamp our passport and then walked across the bridge to the Panama side to go through immigration.
The old bridge between Costa Rica and Panama
Waiting at the border to get our passorts stamped. Then we all got pushed into a big van to drive to the boat dock to get to Bocas. It was $10 per person and it had no A/C and they were trying to cram as many people as they could into the van. We finally left and got down to the boat dock in Al Mirante for a 30 minute ride out to Bocas. We stayed at Lula’s. We had dinner by the water and did a little shopping this place is beautiful! I think it was a lot of hassle to get there but it was worth it.
Monday July 13 we had a relaxing day in Bocas. 
We enjoyed a good breakfast and then went down to the boat dock and took a ride out to Crawl Cay where we went snorkeling and ate at the restaurant. 
We put Alydia in a little blow up tube and held onto her while we were snorkeling. We saw lots of fish and had a good time. 
When we got back we sat at a restaurant by the water and had some food and relaxed then took a taxi to the north side of the island to go to Bocas del Drago and Estrella Beach. That beach was really cool we had to walk about 30 minutes to get there but there were huge starfish in the water everywhere! We enjoyed the beautiful sunset and the nice calm beach and warm water. We headed back to the room to shower and go to dinner. We ate at a nice restaurant right out on the water. Just another day in paradise! We found some cute dresses for the girls in one of the little shops. We took lots of good pictures of the starfish but then our camera was stolen and all those pictures were lost!
Monday July 13 we had a relaxing day in Bocas. We enjoyed a good breakfast and then went down to the boat dock and took a ride out to Crawl Cay where we went snorkeling and ate at the restaurant. We put Alydia in a little blow up tube and held onto her while we were snorkeling. We saw lots of fish and had a good time. When we got back we sat at a restaurant by the water and had some food and relaxed then took a taxi to the north side of the island to go to Bocas del Drago and Estrella Beach. That beach was really cool we had to walk about 30 minutes to get there but there were huge starfish in the water everywhere! We enjoyed the beautiful sunset and the nice calm beach and warm water. We headed back to the room to shower and go to dinner. We ate at a nice restaurant right out on the water. Just another day in paradise! We found some cute dresses for the girls in one of the little shops. We took lots of good pictures of the starfish but then our camera was stolen and all those pictures were lost!
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Holy Cow, traveling the world again!?!?!?! What are you doing in Costa Rica/ Tortugea, etc? Looks like fun!
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