Our Costa Rica Top Ten!

Top 10 Fun Facts we’ve learned about Costa Rica:
1. Instead of saying, “Did you sleep well?” here they ask, “How did you wake?” "Como amanecio?"...Instead of saying "Hola" as "Hello" when greeting each other on the street, they say "Adios"...but when leaving they don't say "Adios" for goodbye unless they are leaving for a very long time.
2. Instead of Diet Coke we have Coke Light
3. There are so many stray dogs around here (Jen’s going crazy) but we have yet to see one dead by the side of the road. They have incredible car sense. We have one little brown runt the size of a chihuahua on our corner that runs all the others off. Across the street there is a home that has multiple dogs that end up waking everyone up with there midnight monolog.
4. YWAM (Youth with a Mission) is translated as JUCUM
5. You can’t take glass, bottled drinks with you from the store… they pour it in a plastic bag for you to drink with a straw.
6. You have to leave plastic bottles out of the trash b/c people will come around and rip open the bags to find them and "recycle".
7. Everyone has an alarm systems on their cars, they are often set off by loud tractor-trailers that drive by, but no one pays them any mind. So if there were any car thieves out there, this is the place to be.
8. “Tico Time” is a term used to say people here are always late… it always runs 15-30 min. behind schedule. (it’s teaching Jason to be more flexible)
9. A 20 min bus ride into San Jose’ is approx. 40 cents one way per person
10. If you flush toilet paper… have a plunger close by. (they throw away all toilet paper)