Day 12 Cost Rica

Well 2 weeks into costa rica almost still not back on poker.  San Isidro has been a place we have visited a lot for food banking and shopping. The hardest thing in this country is to get exact products.  The computer stores. Yes stores all 4. Have been sold out of the most popular router for the past 2 weeks.  It is sad that they don't understand to buy 100 at a time instead of 10... which sell same day.
Currently we are waiting on citibank to email us back.  Then we will have net banking and be able to print out a bank statement and have everything sent into stars so they will approve us and allow us to play.

Sorry for short post but other things on my mind plus 10 conversations.

Costa Rica Day 2+3

Went to bed that night and woke up worked on internet and checked out town with a great local named Matt. Great guy interested in what we are doing and great with internet and such. Town is awesome. Tons of great restaurants and of course no chains so it really is good cooking.

Worked online alot past 2 days drank night 3. Grey Goose.  Tomorrow we are walking to the bank and for more food and to eat at a local cheap restaurant.  Then 2-3 more days til back online?
We are going to also work on getting the maid to clean haha because some things could be better...

I have added some pictures of animals we saw today. 

Costa Rica Day 1

Woke up 4 hours before take off watched tv for 45 minutes took a shower then finished last stuff to pack. Laptop. Bags into car. ETC.  Redbull breakfast.  And off we went. 

After 20 calls to my other group I was heading down with I find out they are 2 hours behind and likely to miss the flight. But I send out prayers they make it.  UNANSWERED.  I board the plane last and head to the first stop where I get off panicking trying to make the plans somehow work some way. The plan became for me to magically find a hotel.  Well I then found out that the driver had to go 20 mins north of where I lived and stupidly offered him 140 instead of starting with 80 and paying up to 100…. It was originally gunna be 200 no negotiation.

Anyway so after blindly being driven by a nice guy who spoke decent English the 3 hour ride to dominical began.  Lots of sights to see.  Was the fun part but when we got to dominical of course its raining and the house is 2 miles up a dirt road. 1 LANE. About 9/10 of the way there we run into a fire truck putting out a fire…. Blocking the entire road.  The driver informs me he can’t wait and shouldn’t even have driven this far in the rain.  He offers to let me walk or drive me to get a taxi on the main road but I don’t speak Spanish and didn’t want to spend another 20 bucks.

I agree to walk believing it isn’t far and the rain isn’t too heavy.  Well the rain picks up as soon as I start walking and the hill is steep and I have a backpack a duffle bag and a rolling suitcase on a dirt road…. I am also out of shape and quickly winded as the rain keeps picking up.  So I get close to the top after 5 minutes of starting and stopping and by now the rain is pouring and I have a computer monitor and my laptop is a baby!  At the top of the hill I am glad to see the entrance of the neighborhood.  The first House isn’t mine so I walk to the entrance to my little community.   At the top of the hill I am practically dead tired.  Ready to collapse but It is just pouring.  I decide to scout and run my laptop to cover.  I go down a hill that is very slippery and luckily I am the first house so I run under cover and fall thru the door inside and take my laptop out and throw it on a towel.

But wait I left the other 2 bags under a large bush at the top of the hill.  I debate giving up at life and leaving it but know secretly that is not an option my computer monitor is in the bag.  So I run back outside as my stomach has already exploded with pain I have never experienced.  I get up the hill in more impossible pain and grab my 2 bags and start cautiously getting down the hill barely able to stand.  I bust inside again and fall on the couch loudly gasping for air.  I take out the monitor which is fine because I wrapped it in a towel. And stumble into a room and lay down hands over head for 5 minutes.  I get up and walk to the front and almost instantly the owner walks in and we start talking after which he and I walk thru the rain to his house and I meet the maid/chef who only speaks Spanish. She made a salad with tuna on it which I don’t eat normally.  Then she brought me eggs with ham and 4 slices of good toast. I ate all of this as it was deliciously perfect.  I grabbed a router from him before he left and went to USA.

I walked back to my house and my sleeping schedule has me going to sleep very early so I tried to get the internet to work but there is a guy coming by at 7am-8am I'm told to help set it up so I give up and go to bed after locking the doors and waking up a few times to noises. 

Day 1= Survived.

COSTA RICA PRE

1 Million Tasks associated with moving.
Plane Tickets then. Transportation when you get there. then Packing. Then go buy everything you need for 3 months.  Get together every phone number address and direction we need in an organized fashion.  Constant contact with the owner/main contact in Costa Rica. Back and forth everyday with emails.  Finding furniture for grind stations.

It never ends but tomorrow I am blindly going to see how good of a job I actually did!  Bank account is the most important thing left and I have to get there of course haha.  Then days of Starcraft while I wait for stars to clear. Maybe some party poker....

Stay Tuned for a complete blog. 
2+2 will have a post for questions.
Here i will blog everything from poker results to life and all that is coming my way.  Pictures should be posted all trip!

Results

Well lets see
I ended with 400 in roulette once busted 100 3 times. And won 140 another time in roulette.
I turned 25 a friend gave me in blackjack to 225 and cashed out up 200.
Oh and poker. 
First tournament I busted AJ vs qj for chip lead.
Second Tournament I took a chop with some cool guys in a tournament I would have won for 823.  I took 600.  2nd paid 573... so wasn't too much of a loss. +513
The next day I took 5th in a heated final table for double the buyin +110
The last day I took a flip for a great stack AQ vs 77.

The other news is I learned live cash.
I bought in for 100 twice the first day and busted both in 1/3
I bought in for 100 and cashed out at 200 at 1/2
After getting a good roll.  I busted 300 in 1/3 after winning from 100 to 300 in 1/2.  So the roller coaster continued to the last day where I turned 100 into 480 and felt the giant edge I desire in poker.

So that is the summary of the trip

COSTA RICAAAAA
http://www.costaclay.com/lagunassunshine.html
Here are the pictures.  We are moving in August 18th. We have been told we can setup bank accounts.  Yall can follow that annoying process here. We have to figure out our internet capabilities. We believe they will be fine the most we will have to do is buy more ICE data cards.  We should be ok with that tho

It's going to be a story for bluff magazine some kids who played around grinding making easy money and having fun. Then they go to a whole other level.  Better Play. Better dedication. Long sessions. Playing it like a real job and going above and beyond.  180s are about to be taken over.   Our team is the best.