Last Beach Trip

I have been meaning to get this written for a week, sorry I am a little slow...

Late on Saturday night (a week ago) my friends asked if I would accompany them on a trip to the beach the following day (yes, I was a bad missionary and skipped church to go with friends to the beach, but it was good fellowship!!). We left at 6:30am and arrived at the beach around 9am. One never knows what they will get these days going to the beach because we are currently entering the rainy season. Fortunately God was smiling on us, for we had a very WARM and SUNNY day. The waves were a bit more violent than normal with double the currents...not only the normal undercurrent that takes people more toward the sea, but we there was also a cross undercurrent which took us down the beach. However, despite it all, it was probably the best beach experience I have had here!

We wanted to leave early so we could get home at an early hour, so we left around 6pm or so. It should only have taken aobut 2 hours to get home...I did not step into my house until 11pm! Two of my friends rode on a motorcycle, we the wheel lost air twice, but when the rest of us in the van were 15 minutes and 30 minutes ahead of them, so both times we had to go back to get them. After the second return, we decided to put the motocycle in the back of the van and squish everyone in the van. Well, by this time, the van needed to be refilled with gas. I guess, this type of van is normally filled with disel, however, not this particular van. Since here in Costa Rica, there are gas station attendents, they just started filling the van up, only to find out that it needed gas. So we had to get the disel drained, not an easy task late at night when the garage part is closed and the boss is not around. After getting the disel out, there was the discussion over who would pay for what (disel and gas) and who would take responsibility if there was some problem with the van due to the disel. It was a somewhat stressful situation (as the legal system is a bit different in CR than in the USA...not to say it would not have been stressful back home). The cops even showed up, more for our sake in case something happened to the van, we would have the cops say, not just our own.

But thank you Jesus, after a week of driving around the van, there have not been any problems, and thank you Jesus that we were all kept safe in our travels!

Now, I have a GREAT story for my last trip to the beach...