Road to Retiring- Day 6

Santa Ana

2/13
I'm up at 5 AM.  I check the internet, e-mail and watch morning TV- cartoons are great for improving my Spanish! .  John gets up at 6:30 and gets us coffee at the patio.  We head down for breakfast at 8 am on the patio and Rosa is waiting on us.  What a great spread of yogurt, fruit, bundt cake, juice, eggs, toast, grilled tortillas with cheese and beans.  And cappuccino.  And expresso. And Rosa helping me with another Spanish lesson.  I can say “scrambled”in Spanish now.  It's all amazing. 

Los Candiles, Santa Ana

Breakfast patio

 Kevin and David are here at 10:30 and we hand over all the apostilled stuff.  This city is a maze and we are glad they are driving. We go to the copy store where every page of our passport must be copied.  Then on to the lawyer where I sign over the power of attorney to David for immigration purposes only.  I'm the one with the pension so the immigration is for me and family.  The lawyer seems like a good guy and acts not only as an abogado but also a notary and a professor in the local law school.  Kevin dubs him to be one of the few honest ones in the country.

We go to Kevin's home office where we do the last of the paperwork, which is the Step papers for the Dept. of Immigration.  Voila.  They are still waiting for the apostilled police forms from Florida but everything else is in and David will file this week. Some coffee and cookies with Kevin's lovely wife Sam, and of course, directions to get to Manuel Antonio. We will meet back with David next Wednesday for fingerprinting at the police station.  It is nice having everything taken care of for us.  It IS more expensive, but I can't imagine the translating and red tape we'd never plow through,  though plenty of others do it.  At every place where money exchanges hands, it comes from Kevin or David as we have paid our fee to them and its all inclusive.  Of course lots more questions about cars, insurance, community theatres that are springing up all over, are talked over. 

We head out, finding the right toll road, and it's not long before the landscape makes a change to greener, more jungle terrain.  2 hrs and 45 minutes to Quepo and we are on the right road though our focaccta GPS tells us twice that we've passed out hotel and make U turns, leading us effectively in circles.  But we find the Falls Resort and it's lovely.  The room is huge with a patio, walk in closet, giant bathroom, sofa, king bed, frig, desk and 42" flat screen.  This is another deal I got on Living Social.  4 nights plus a zip line for $359.00 and you can see how fancy the digs are. 

A dip in the Infinity pool and then we go down to the beach.  Not a surf beach for sure, but very pretty with a full moon rising.  We stop at a restaurant advertising pizza and order one with a salad to go, to eat on our patio with cold beer.  Tomorrow we'll see what surf beaches are nearby and possibly take our zip line tour, leaving Saturday and Sunday for exploring the region.   

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