Waka Waka

It's another crazy adventure! But at this point, I've learned to expect nothing less.

We finished out our time in David. My predictions were right, and we ran out of things to do after the first day. We went to go see Harry Potter 7 Part 1 and another movie called Devil in one night, and pretty much spent the rest of the time hanging out at the hostel.

Yesterday morning we tried to go back to Costa Rica, only to find out at the border that when we went through customs the first time, we didn't get a stamp into Panama, just a stamp out of Costa Rica. Anyone else find it funny that the official who checked our passports didn't say anything about this? So we couldn't go back to Panama, because we were there illegally, but we couldn't go to Costa Rica either because they wouldn't let us back in. We had to go hire a lawyer to write letters to the customs officials telling them to cancel our exit stamp, which basically means that we never went to Panama. Which is great, except that Martin still had to renew his visa for Costa Rica by leaving the country for 72 hours.

Back to Panama.

We got back on the bus to David, but couldn't really stand the thought of another 3 days there, so we walked around the bus terminal and eventually decided to go to Bocas del Toro. This, as we found out a little bit too late, involved a 5 hour ride to Almirantes. It was 11 PM and pouring rain by the time we got there, and there were no water taxis leaving, so we had to stay there overnight. Then we got up first thing this morning and got on a boat to Isla Bocas! The weather isn't great still, but so far it's been awesome, and really beautiful. The hostel we're staying at, Casa Verde, is on stilts just above the water, and if you sit on the edge of the porch you can look right down and see fish. We're thinking about taking a snorkel tour tomorrow if it's nice. But for now, we're happy to just sit back and relax.