Panama 2016

Wow! Where to start? We had a such a fantastic vacation and all our travels went so well, yup life if good! Because I always take so many pictures (shock right?), I decided to brake down our travels by categories for the blog posts. That way I can kinda spread the pictures out so you won’t get too overloaded.

So first things first. Getting ready. It’s always nice to go with another couple because you can talk about what you should and shouldn’t bring. Since we were headed to Panama in February, there was a couple of essential things we all needed to bring. # 1 Swimsuit – now this is a must! and I ended up bringing about 4 along just in case. Now just in case of what? Who knows, but I’ll be ready. # 2 bug spray. This has been become an important item for anyone traveling this year with the Zika virus going around and I know that we had a couple of spray cans of bug spray and I also had some essential oil concoction with us. While the others traveling with us had a bottle of bug spray that was almost all DEET. Yup, we were ready! And for the rest of the things to pack? Well that included summer dresses for the evenings, suntan lotion, and flip flops. We had this trip planned since last Fall so we all were really looking forward to it.

Our Trip: we headed to the cities the night before we left because our flight the next morning was leaving really early so we could get to Panama yet in the afternoon. We also knew that we were going to be pretty tired the next day – but heck who cares right? We’re on vacation!

Morning sunrise while we were on the airplane

Everything went well with our flights which was a good thing, and soon we were standing in the airport looking for our hired transfer guy holding up a poster with our information on it. We found him in the crowd and with the weather around 90 to 95 degrees and a couple of locally made beers, seriously how could you go wrong ?On the way to the hotel we were able to drive over the Panama Canal and we were excited to have the chance in a couple of days to take an actual boat tour ride through it. It honestly seemed a little unreal if you asked me. And I knew just how lucky we were to be having this chance to do this.

Seeing the Panama Canal on the way to our hotel

Here are some pictures of our hotel and our beach that I had taken to give you an idea of what we were calling home for the next 8 days. I tried to get out and get some pictures early before the crowds came. I think I’m going to like it here.