go to costa rica

I decided if I’m going to Costa Rica, it wouldn’t hurt to know the rudiments of Spanish. I signed up with LiveMocha.com to learn Spanish for free. I took my first lesson and it wasn’t bad. It’s a similar structure to French, which I grew up learning in school.

So I spent yesterday on-line checking out airfare, hotels, fun and stuff for a trip to Costa Rica. We’re staying with relatives while we’re down there. We have to stay overnight in Toronto going and coming, which adds $600 to the trip in hotel bills. Because we’re staying with relatives we don’t know that well, we won’t stay long…just five days. In the middle of a Canadian prairie winter…yippee!!! So now I’ve managed to attach a figure to the goal – $5000 – it’s time to start saving for it…that’s only…$700/mth…more or less. Five thousand is an outside high figure giving us well over $1000 spending money for five days. If we can’t live on that we’ve got problems!