Today was the first day of the Costa Rica trip which started bright and early at 4am. I then met up with some of the group before the flight which made me less nervous about the rest of the trip because everyone seemed nice. Then we boarded the plane and I watched movies the whole flight so it went by pretty fast. Once we arrived at the airport in Costa Rica I was excited until I saw the line for customs which took over 2 hours to get through. After making it through customs we met up with the rest of the group and got our rental van for the week and headed to the hotel. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the exact directions to the hotel, we just knew it was near a church so it ended up taking us a while to find the hotel. We then went to a little pizza place right near the hotel and the food was amazing. Everyone was already immediately bonded over the events that partook at the beginning of the day and we continued to get to know each other and celebrate our first day in Costa Rica. After that, we went back to the hotel and got ready for a nice welcome dinner. They served us basically a four-course meal of some of their traditional foods in Costa Rica which all tasted delicious and the servers were very nice. With that being said though the first day was just a traveling day it was still very eventful.