Posted by Steve Linder on Mon, Jan 18, 2010
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As many of you may know, I was just in Costa Rica leading two back to back property tours. I just returned on the 14th of January and am now catching up on my blogging.
The first group arrived on New Year's eve for a tour starting on December 31st and ending on the 3rd of January, a quick trip to our developments to tour homes, home sites and the area around us. Our trip started at the Martino Resort in Alejuala, a suburb of San Jose. I rounded up all twelve of our tour mates at the airport on various flights, a very busy time at the San Jose Airport, and took them to the hotel. The Resort Hotel Martino was hosting a new year's eve party, complete with live music, a fixed menu dinner, champagne toast and fireworks at midnight. Since most of us had just arrived on flights from across the US and Canada, we all decided to skip the party, opting for a good night's sleep instead.
Did I mention the fireworks at midnight? It seems the owners of the Martino like their fireworks. Starting promptly at midnight, we were serenaded by an hour long concert of booms, kapowees, and blasts of light as smoke and ashes rained down on the hotel. Many of these booms rocked the hotel and shook the windows. As I lay there trying to sleep I thought about how much I love Costa Rica. No one from the hotel complained, welcome to our first day in paradise.
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Posted by Steve Linder on Thu, Dec 31, 2009
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San Jose is a buzz with activity. Everyone seems to be looking forward to 2010. I arrived into Costa Rica yesterday on a packed A300 wide body flight from Miami. The airport was jammed, every flight was arriving packed with families on vacation from the US as well as Costa Ricans heading home for the holidays. I'll spend the day today meeting all our tour guests at the airport as each arrives from various places across the US and Canada on various airlines.
The Hotel Martino has a new years eve bash planned but I doubt I'll make it till midnight. I'll be sound asleep, repowering for the coming day. People don't try to dress to impress in San Jose, comfort over fashion is the norm. I don't think we'll see people dressed like I would have if I'd stayed in Key West. In Key West we celebrate in some weird ways. One of the bars, the 801, will drop "Sushi" a drag queen, from the roof of the building at midnight in a giant high heel. I doubt I'll see anything like that in San Jose. Here we'll see fireworks, they plan to shoot them over the pool at the hotel at midnight. We'll no doubt see some hats and some celebratory drinking, but I don't expect to see drunken people in the streets, again a common sight in Key West. Most holidays in Costa Rica are about family, children, good food and friends.
The air is nice, the smells are nice, the food is nice, the weather is perfect, the sound of the birds is soothing, I am going to enjoy New Years Eve asleep in Costa Rica. See you all next year.
Steve
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