As my first blog post, I'm starting with the fact we made it to another country with 2 kids under the age of 10, with 5 VERY LARGE checked backs about 1 pound away from the weight limit, 3 carry ons, which certainly had to be close to the size limit, plus a briefcase, a backpack and our sanity somehow miracously intact.
A significant component of that was due to the fact all of our flights were blissfully on time and we crashed in a 5 star hotel the night we arrived in Costa Rica (THANK YOU corporate relo package!).
After we crashed for the night in 5 star down comforters and threadcount sheets unheard of in a 3rd world country, we proceeded downstairs at the ripe early hour of 11am to pick up our rental car and meet our new mobility coordinator. Here we discovered the first gem of Costa Rica: compact cars.
Here's the picture: A Nissan Tiida and 5 large suitcases, 3 carry ons, 1 briefcase, 1 backpack, 2 adults and 2 kids. Ummm...NOT! A half hour and several bent corporate travel policy rules later, we rolled away in a Mitsubishi Montero. I'm like, a Nissan Tiida? really? I asked the rental car dude to look at the luggage cart where all of our luggage was and asked him if everything would fit. Needless to say, he agreed perhaps a Nissan Tiida wasn't the best option.
HA! You've got to like teeny, tiny cars! I can only imagine what that would have looked like :-)
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