Costa Rica- Senior Year- Loving an addict
Take me away!!!
Happy Tuesday! Well as many of my followers from social media know I went to Costa Rica with my 17 year old daughter for senior pics in the most beautiful parts of the country. What I thought would be a relaxing experience was rather stressful when it came to driving in a different country. I managed the first day to drive through a river (which was actually a road) and rip something off of the bottom of my rental car and almost get stuck. Thank God I took the expensive insurance out on the rental! I basically decided after that point to no longer drive through rivers for the remainder of the trip.
The first stop was La Fortuna, and in my personal opinion I would have stayed there the entire trip. We felt safe, most spoke english, the food was awesome and the area was just really cool. The area has Arenal volcano which we had the opportunity to take pictures in front of which were awesome. Gwyn and I went zip lining and ATV riding through the rainforest around the volcano which was probably the highlight of my trip. The ride was beautiful but I cried at one point because I began thinking of my oldest daughter and how she should be there with us.
After spending 4 days in La Fortuna we went to the pacific coast where we stayed in this awesome mansion. The house was cool but the area and driving along the coast stressed me out. You basically dodge adults, children, dogs, motorcycles and people on bikes. We had made plans to go in shore fishing and they day we went with the group was a monsoon with large waves and I pretty much spent the entire time vomiting. I was too sick to even get anxiety about how rough the seas were and dangerous for us to be out there. We survived though and eventually just went back to land. We also decided to get mother/daughter tattoo's which turned out beautiful. We got them on the forearm and I have heard that area is tender but in all honesty I have been through so much pain over the last several years emotionally I didn't even notice. Microblading was worse in my opinion.
The main goal of the trip was less about pictures for senior year but about quality mother/daughter time which we haven't had. We both had so much time to reflect and discuss tough issues that we were both needing time to discuss. I think it was healing in many ways, but the fact remains we are missing a part of our family to active addiction and creates a void. As a whole though the trip was great but we are happy to be home :)
