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Sitting by the pool in Costa Rica, updating my livejournal... I promise you I'm not that much of a dork.
The Costa Rica airport is really funny for two reasons:
1) One of the two buildings is shaped like a giant Pizza Hut.
2) It has one huge poster in it, which warns travelers that "she ends up with her soul torn to pieces... you end up in jail." Apparently the Costa Rican government is very seriously concerned with statutory rape.
As for my hotel, we drove through the main gate, rain pouring down, foggy green hills in the background, and I couldn't resist humming the Jurassic Park theme. Amazingly, "a small island off the coast of Costa Rica" (and yes, I am enough of a dork to remember that it's actually called Isla Nublar) looks a lot like a gorgeous hotel on the coast of Costa Rica. But with the weather cleared up and the sun in the sky, I can now appreciate the beautiful pools and beaches without fear of dinosaur attacks, though we have had some run-ins with an iguana.
Basically, I'm in paradise. And not just paradise for everyone... but paradise for me specifically. This is the only hotel I've seen where the bar has alcohol on one side and Boggle, Uno, and Scrabble boxes on the other. They have a professional cigar roller in the lounge who just rolls cigars for the guests to smoke (for an outrageous fee, of course, but whatever...) Not that I smoke cigars, or drink (I DO play boggle...) but the fact remains, this place is P.I.M.P.
Now if only I had my girlfriend here/could drink....
The Costa Rica airport is really funny for two reasons:
1) One of the two buildings is shaped like a giant Pizza Hut.
2) It has one huge poster in it, which warns travelers that "she ends up with her soul torn to pieces... you end up in jail." Apparently the Costa Rican government is very seriously concerned with statutory rape.
As for my hotel, we drove through the main gate, rain pouring down, foggy green hills in the background, and I couldn't resist humming the Jurassic Park theme. Amazingly, "a small island off the coast of Costa Rica" (and yes, I am enough of a dork to remember that it's actually called Isla Nublar) looks a lot like a gorgeous hotel on the coast of Costa Rica. But with the weather cleared up and the sun in the sky, I can now appreciate the beautiful pools and beaches without fear of dinosaur attacks, though we have had some run-ins with an iguana.
Basically, I'm in paradise. And not just paradise for everyone... but paradise for me specifically. This is the only hotel I've seen where the bar has alcohol on one side and Boggle, Uno, and Scrabble boxes on the other. They have a professional cigar roller in the lounge who just rolls cigars for the guests to smoke (for an outrageous fee, of course, but whatever...) Not that I smoke cigars, or drink (I DO play boggle...) but the fact remains, this place is P.I.M.P.
Now if only I had my girlfriend here/could drink....