Day 1 - Arrival in Alajuela

Marilyn and Orquideas. Can you tell that they are related?
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We woke up at 3:00am for a 7:00am flight out of San Francisco to Miami. With the new security rules we were told to arrive as early as possible since there would undoubtedly be long lines through ticketing and security.

We arrived at the airport at 5am and wizzed through ticketing and security in less than 15 minutes! Our four hour layover in Miami was uneventful and we had some crappy airport food and walked around the terminals. The Miami airport sucks!

Our flight to San Jose was delayed about an hour. after we arrived we were relieved to see someone with a sign from our hotel waiting outside. It turned out that that person wasn’t the driver but a local guy who took us upstairs to where our driver was waiting in his van. The guy explained that he worked for tips so I gave him $2 for carrying our bags. We were at the Orquideas Inn in 15 minutes (we stayed there last year as well), checked into our room and then headed to the bar for a few Imperials before calling it a night.