Friday

Wow. Where did the days go? It is Friday and we must start our journey home. Although tired from a very busy week; it was such a blessing to reflect on how the Lord had made all the activities possible (daily rains did not interfere with the competition of the church addition, children’s ministry nor any of the planned nightly outreach revivals). It was truly amazing what the Lord accomplished through us in one short week.

We had an early start with breakfast, bid our goodbyes to the staff and loaded in the van in route to San Jose. Tanya led devotion on Friday. We enjoyed each others company and beautiful countryside as we journeyed along a very bumpy (mostly unpaved) road, leading to Jaco. The travel scrabble was a popular game along the way. In Jaco we stopped at one of the many canopy tours in Costa Rica.

In general the team enjoyed zip-lining through the rain forest. After the tour, we stopped for lunch and then continued on the journey to San Jose. Paved road was a welcome change. Along the way we encountered delays as traffic at times came to a total stop. Earlier mudslides had blocked sections of the road and travel was reduced in places to one lane (for both directions).
Realizing that we were going to be delayed in getting the city, our driver was able to call ahead and make arrangements for one of the stores to stay open later (allowing us to pick up souvenirs for our supporters). After shopping, we checked into our hotel, had dinner at the local Denny’s and retired for the night.