Fabulous Vacay in Costa Rica!!!

Costa Rica was AWESOME!! We were staying at a friend's house so we weren't in any of the tourist part of Costa Rica we were with the Ticas. The Locals. Settle in folks, it's a long one. Here's the recap...

Tuesday - we flew in from Houston Tuesday night. It was dark so we didn't get to see much on the drive to Chat's house.

Wednesday - St Patty's Day!! We got up and dressed and Chat took us around a few of the towns. We grabbed a beer and burger at Marlin Bill's (yes, burger) it was awesome! Cruised around and checked out the beaches. I was waiting for the perfect moment to bust out all my St Patrick's Day gear so this was a nice way to spend the time. Korey told me he wanted to check out the sunset on our first night in Costa Rica so we borrowed Chat's car and went to a bar in "Downtown" Garza. Chat lives with the locals so "downtown" is dirt roads with chickens, kids, dogs, horses and cows roaming the streets. The bar was on the beach so we stopped in. I was still taking everything in and up snapping pictures of boats, the surf, the sand, the sunset. When Kb finally told me to "just sit down a minute" we talked about how beautiful and wonderful our first day in Costa Rica was and he said it was "almost perfect, except there's just one more thing... Will you marry me?" O geez, then came the water works, I cried, he cried, I didn't even say anything at first except.. "you're shaking!!!" he said "umm yeah!! well???" That's when I realized I hadn't said anything so of course I said YES!! After that we went back and had our St Patty's Day Party at Chat's

Thursday and Friday we hung out on a couple of different beaches and drove around. We saw the howler monkeys. Those suckers are loud!! If you didn't see how small they were you'd think you were in the middle of Gorillas in the Mist. SCARY. I guess I was just glad they didn't start throwing poop or anything.

Saturday it was Go-TIME!! We went fishing!! I've been deep sea fishing a couple of times but never caught anything big. I was hoping for a yellow fin tuna. MMMmmm good eats. Instead I caught this...

Yep! A Big ASS Sail Fish!! It was AWESOME!! They jump and fight trying to get the hook out. They're beautiful! In the water they're silvery blue. Alas, this is a catch and release fish so after the picture, back in the ocean he went. Thanks for a good fight buddy!

Sunday was a day of reflection and relaxing by the pool before we headed home on Monday. Kb and I really hadn't been able to talk to anyone but our parents after the Kb popped the question. (well, we were able to talk to Crack, he has some international set up so he can call Chat whenever he wants. So he knew, and I'm sure he told people, who told people and so on) We just really enjoyed each other with no distractions and knew that was coming to a close. Once we got back, everyone would want to see us and hear about the trip and how everything went down. When we got to the Liberia Airport Kb said "Oh yeah, there's just one more thing. We're going back first class. I can't fly my new fiance back in coach" Ha! Kb, you and that "one more thing" I SWEAR!!

Costa Rica was a fabulous trip, everything worked out perfectly, Chat was an awesome host, I left with a boyfriend and came back with a fiance, I couldn't ask for anything more.