Now I don’t want to be a big baby or anything like that – but I really don’t want to go home. And I’m not joking. I’m not sure if it’s because we had a stressful fall/winter this year with the crops and medical issues, or because I’ve never stayed at a 5 star hotel – much less on a private beach in Costa Rica before. But whatever the case is, this vacation was perfect.
Daryl in the Lobby
So what did we do today? Well, we started out the day eating of course. We even got to be pretty good friends with the buffet manager. And now that I’m thinking about that, I think that’s kind of funny! We even took our picture with him and he gave us his business card to look him up the next time we’re back. 
After breakfast my brother and sister in law went to the hotel shops to check them out and Daryl went to check us out of the hotel. I was just kind of hanging out in the Lobby and thought to myself, ‘what in the world are you doing inside’? So outside I went. I found a good spot in one of the lounge chairs and sat down. HOLY COW it was warm! My legs just kind of sizzled in the sunshine and I really wanted to just toughen it up and stay in the sun. But for some reason just sitting in the sunshine waiting for our van to come was so different than laying on our chairs in the pool with drinks just the day before. 
Yea, it really wasn’t the same and I had to move to another spot to get out of the sun. The weather was still in the low 90’s and great though. After our concierge told us that our van was waiting to take us to the airport, we also took our picture with him. We met with him quite a bit over the week and we almost had him talked into going rafting with us the other day. He was so funny and I think he would have had a good time with us if he would have went.
Our Very Good Friend – Melvin
I took a couple more pictures around the hotel before we had to leave.
Coconut trees were all over the grounds
And soon we were in the van going back to the airport. We laughed so hard when we saw this one guy fixing the electrical wire in the street. The guys were holding the ladder while he was repairing the wires. 
After we had some paperwork to fill out at Customs, we had to hang out at the airport until our flight was ready. When I saw this one guy making cigars I really wanted to check it out.
I had bought a cigar press about a year ago and had no idea what it was at the time. Now that I saw him use it, I’m thinking I should have only paid 1/2 as much for it because I’m missing the whole other side that belongs to it. Oh well, I think mine is still kind of cool. It didn’t take too long and we were in the air flying home. We decided to take a look at the rafting pictures and seriously I thought we were going to die from laughing. We were on the late flight which meant pretty much everyone was sleeping, it was between 11 & 12 pm after all. But us four were the furthest from sleeping. What a hoot! We landed at midnight in Minneapolis and it was cold. No … it was freezing!! The temperature from this morning to now was around 110 degrees difference. And not in the good way you know. The car was parked at our hotel that we stayed in before we flew out and was covered in snow and ice. And for us? Yea, we were FROZEN. It was literally too much of a shock. As we stood by the car to throw our stuff in, we were shaking so much that I thought that I would loose my balance. It was bad. So we headed back into to the hotel and camped out by the fireplace for a little bit to get warm and to let the car warm up. Once we could feel our fingers and toes again, off we headed south to home. We pulled into our driveway around 4 am on Thursday morning and the farm looked good. It looked cold and snowy, but it still looked good.