Jaco and New Resolutions

Woke up bright and early to catch the 7am bus in San Jose. The morning was almost like a nightmare. Barely made it off the bus from El Carmen to San Jose, and literally RAN through the sketchier parts of San Jose to get to the other bus stop that we couldnt find. A man was kind enough to show us to it, but not without a price. The 7am bus already left, and the 7:30 bus was full so we decided we just wanted to get there and agreed to stand for 2.5 hours.... It was one rough ride. We went up through mountains and valleys, and was bumped around so many times that motion sickness was inevitable, especially standing. There ended up being one empty seat so Kristen and I took turns sitting in each others laps. 

We finally made it to Jaco! It was pretty, the surf looked wonderful, and the sand looked like dirt, but it was hot and we were ready to swim! We found a little path to the beach, changed into our suits in between cars, put on sun screen and went on our way. It was an all in all successful day, we both got burnt to a crisp, even with sun screen! We ended up wanting to go home early because we were already burnt, so we tried to catch the 3pm bus, but that ended up being standing only, and we didnt want to do THAT again. The next available bus for sitting was at 6pm. We wanted to be home so badly, but we bought our tickets and dozed on some benches, then agreed to walk around and look for souvenirs. It ended up being a pretty cool end to the day, Im glad we stayed. Got some pretty cool pictures of the sun setting and tiny crabs that ran around on the sand. It was a good day. 

We had a good 2-3 hour bus ride home... Full of thinking and wondering about life. I get random bouts of excitement with  the life God has be living. The work He has me doing. Life is such a wonderfully confusing thing. Finding out whats in store for us is a huge mystery, but who in their right mind doesnt want to crack that mystery? And we arent in control of it! God has an entirely too funny sense of humor sometimes.

Theres something about giving yourself over to God. To surrendering to Him fully. I am here to do Gods work, this is not my doing. It was Gods from the very start. How refreshing. Im finally at peace (I think) with being in Costa Rica. Its officially official. I am IN Costa Rica.