Panama

Panama... the great powerful country.   After a 16 hr bus ride we were in Panama. It was a bit crazy, the bus broke down overnight so we had to wait for a new bus at 2am somewhere in Costa Rica.  Let’s skip to when we finally arrived in Panama.  My former El Salvador neighbor met us at the bus station, with her 3 kids.  The two boys were screaming, and making a berrinche.  Ok let’s skip this as well, not a pleasant moment.  Rode in the car with her, Greg rode in the front. I had originally told Greg that we were going to stay with her and her kids, I could see Greg’s head exploding by the look on his eyes while in the car.  The kids were making a lot of noise.  Well I had a surprise, we were staying at the trump hotel downtown Panama. Really.  Patricia pointed to the hotel and said, look that’s your hotel out there, then Greg’s face lit up, literally! He was so exited to hear the word hotel.  He didn’t know which hotel yet.  We walked into the lobby and it just sounded like bells to my ears! It was fantastic, they even gave us a complimentary breakfast, it was everything I had envisioned. 

Here we are, two people that haven’t showered in 2 days (since we were rafting through the jungles of Costa Rica) and have two heavy backpacks on their backs.  Standing in the magnificent lobby of the trump hotel, anyone could have thought that we were at the wrong place.  It was our first year anniversary, we had made it to the trump tower.  Got to our room and it was impressive, it was just awesome, the bed was so comfy, the shower was in the middle of the room, only had glass around it, a balcony that looked over the city and the ocean.  It was LIFE.

We ate dinner at the hotel restaurant, it was delicious.  I still want to go back to the trump hotel just so I can eat there again.  We swam in the pool the next morning and we just really enjoyed everything about it we didn’t want to leave.  Patricia picked us up to take us to “Casco Viejo” an old part of the city.  Then she took us to the Panama canal where we went into the museum and saw the boats go through.  We really enjoyed it there we learned so much about the Panama canal.

It was definitely a very long day, we got dropped off at the airport at around 7pm and our flight was at 3am which was delayed til 4am.  Arrived in FT Lauderle, to board again to make it to Dallas, then board again to make it to Houston.  Finally arrived in Houston and collapsed to the rest of the day.

The Central America tour is yet just another chapter of our book.