June 24, 2025 • 45 mins
Amanda recounts her all-expenses-paid trip to Costa Rica earned through her work with Red Aspen nail products, sharing the challenges and joys of her tropical adventure.
• Earned the trip by accumulating points through sales commissions from December to March
• Faced difficult decision to travel after father passed away two days before departure
• Encountered power outages from storms while packing the night before leaving
• Experienced bumpy two-hour drives from the airport to the resort on roads "worse than Walker County"
• Stayed at a resort with multiple pools, restaurants, and direct beach access
• Encountered mischievous monkeys that would visit balconies looking for food and shiny objects
• Participated in an excursion to natural hot springs near a volcano where Jurassic Park was filmed
• Enjoyed complimentary 80-minute massages arranged by her team director
• Attended special events including a white-dress beach dinner and "Under the Sea" prom-themed dance
• Found herself naturally waking up early at 5:30 AM each day despite normally not being a morning person
• Struggled with over-packed carry-on luggage and had to leave some clothes behind
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome back to this episode.
It's a man who takes a popoverfor a drink.
It's a water, but it's flavored.
Yes, okay, and you justfinished your snack slash lunch
that I've been waiting on you tofinish so we can get started,
which is some kind of littletuna pack deal, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I had to have a bite of something because I didn't
get toast in Sunday school thismorning.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Those little tuna packs are pretty good, but
there's not enough there.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I mean, if you want a little quick protein or
something like that, yeah, for awoman, a young child would be
fine, but a grown adult.
Here I am.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
A grown adult can't live off that unless you eat
five packs at a time.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I eat that for lunch and that's all I'll eat for
lunch.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
If you could do it just right, you can slide it out
of the pack.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I would like it on some bread, but I just don't
take the time to do it for lunch.
But it's a good little snack.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I know when, uh, I went to honduras.
I think I took several of thosemaybe maybe I don't know, but,
speaking of honduras, a placesimilar to that that you just
got back from is costa rica.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Let's talk about your trip to costa rica it's been a
while two weeks so we gotta leadup to costa rica, you basically
well, you won or I earned youearned.
I earned it because I worked mybootay off yeah, you earn it
from your nail business.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You sell nails for red aspen yes is that how you
would say it you sold it for forthem.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I make a commission.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You make a commission off of what you sell.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I earn free stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And so from everything that you sold
whatever like of a past year,From December last, december
2024, through the end of March.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So you got four months to earn so many points
and at the beginning of March Iearned my points about the
second week of March, so I wassitting there, so that one you
all expense paid.
All expense paid.
I ain't never been nowhere.
Yeah, you know where that'sfrom.
(02:22):
I guess everybody else won't,will they?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, they do, they know.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So we got to lead up to the Costa Rica thing.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Like packing in the dark.
Yeah, I'm a procrastinator, hadto pack in the dark.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So let's start with your flight.
You needed to be at the airporton a Sunday morning.
At what time?
4?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
3.50?
3.30.
We was trying for 3.30.
Because my flight I had myflight started boarding at 4.30.
So we tried to get that, but myflight didn't leave until 5.01
or whatever.
So we got up at 2 o'clock 2.15?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, so leading up to that.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Leading up to that a pack in the dark.
We get storms.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, our power went off.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Before that.
This is why I may not have hada best of trip that I could have
had.
That don't make sense, does it?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
yeah, it does okay so you couldn't enjoy yourself, I
could, yeah that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I couldn't enjoy myself.
I like I felt like I couldn'tlet go and enjoy because my dad
passed away two days before Iwas supposed to leave for Costa
Rica.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So this was on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So he passed on a Friday and I played with whether
I was going or not, actuallyfor the next day or so.
I didn't have time.
I had to decide yes or no.
So I decided that well, withtalking with Jody, we decided
(04:11):
that it would be fine for me togo, that my dad would want me to
go.
He wouldn't not want me to go.
I earned that.
He was excited for me.
So I was going.
But in the meantime we have togo on Saturday to do some
planning and we're in thefuneral home and the storms
start rolling in Just out ofnowhere.
The power okay.
(04:33):
Now you're in the funeral homeand the power goes off.
That's a little creepy.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And just right before it went off.
I think that's when Nicholascalled me while I was in there.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
And he was at home.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And he said, hey, power just went off.
Is it a bad storm that camethrough?
I said, well, we can hear itoutside.
You know it's getting strong.
Got on the phone with him andit wasn't a minute or so and
then the power went off at thefuneral.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That was weird.
It went off and on it came backon.
It went off and on it came backon.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It went off and on, did it a couple, three times,
but then it came on and stayedon.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It stayed on, so we finished up there, whatever, and
we head home.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, we went to your dad's house to check on some
stuff anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Oh yeah, because we needed to go down there and make
sure the storm didn't comethrough.
Well, actually it did.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, we just needed to finish some stuff.
But when through well, actuallyit did.
Well, we just need to finishsome stuff.
But when we left there, we justfound out that trees everywhere
I mean random you'd go a miledown the road and there's like,
everywhere we went, we was yeah,there's chasing the storm yeah.
So then when we headed back home, when we got down our road,
just a few houses down before wegot to our houses, then we saw
well, there's your problem rightthere, with power lines down
(05:44):
and a big old tree on it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
A big old tree on it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So this is now we're talking say 3, 4 o'clock on a
Saturday evening.
Amanda's got to be at theairport by say 3.30,.
Just say 4 o'clock at the verylatest.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
At the very latest Because I had to go through
customs and all that.
No, no, no, no I the verylatest, the next morning,
because I had to go throughcustoms and all that.
No, no, no, no.
I didn't go through customs atBirmingham.
Yeah, I went through customs atDallas, right.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Anyway, we can get to that, is that right, okay?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I get confused on security and customs.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well, you're getting me confused because you're
jumping back and forth.
So that's just with our time.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's just me I ADD.
Yeah, so we Four o'clock at thelatest.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Anyway.
So we had, Then we had somepeople bring some food.
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So we didn't have power, so we we had to eat
outside.
So yeah, we had the people thatcame over.
We told them say we can eat inthe house if you want to.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But it's extremely hot.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's gonna be hot, it's gonna gonna be cooler
outside and that ain't sayingmuch because it I mean it's not
it was comfortable, though, tome it was comfortable.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
To you.
It was hot, yeah, but yeah, soit got late.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And then long story short.
I didn't want to pay, didn'tget, I went to bed I needed to
wash, and so I probably got fourhours of sleep, maybe, and you
probably got four hours of sleepmaybe, and you probably got two
hours of sleep.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I think it was 12.30 when I finally laid down.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I had to get up at 2.15.
Had no clue what I reallypacked.
I threw things in there.
Yeah, note to self, I won'ttake a carry-on when I go for a
long trip like that anymore.
I was shoving and pushingBecause you couldn't get it in
the load pushing because youcouldn't get it in.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Because I couldn't get it in there, was it under
your seat or in the?
No?
No, no, I mean my stuff in thein the carry-on.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh yeah, I'm just gonna suck it up and pay for a
bag.
No, yes, I am no, I do acarry-on nope if you were a girl
you wouldn't, and I learned mylesson because I had to leave
stuff there, because I couldn'tget it back in my bag.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But so we got up that morning and it was raining and
it rained the whole way there,lightning.
All that got you there I wasreally nervous to fly but you
gotta remember that we didn'thave power all night long so I
didn't even get ready.
So yeah, so we're usingflashlights and lights on the
phone and all that, and they hadsaid that sometime Sunday, like
(08:10):
Sunday afternoon is when it wasgoing to come on, so this is
very unusual for us.
We don't ever lose power.
If we do, it's not very long.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And I had just bought groceries because I knew I was
going.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So, I bought the boys you know all their freezer
stuff.
So our refrigerator issemi-full and so get you to the
airport.
I leave Now.
You're checking in, you'redoing your thing, right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, you can take it from there, because all I did
was drive back and wish I was inthe bed and knew.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I had to teach Sunday school and work, do some work.
I was just afraid that weweren't going gonna be able to
take off because it was stillstorming and all, but the flight
was actually fine.
I guess it had went.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's strange to take off in rain, though, it feels to
me like how can you getairplane to, to go and even to
stop, like landing in the rain.
You know when we came back fromtampa, that time you know it
was raining when we came backyeah and it was like how are
they gonna stop this plane withthis rain?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
it feels like you just figure out another way to
stop a plane.
Why?
Why are we not slowing down alittle bit more before we hit
that ground?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
because you'd crash.
That's why because you have tobe a certain speed, but you're
still going fast, you don't wantto stall out and then try and
land.
No, but daggum when you landand you're like and then when
you yeah, it's called brakes andthere's not a better thing than
brakes.
So I'm sorry.
I mean you can throw thatparachute behind you, but you're
still going to need some brakes, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, these landings probably weren't as bad as the
first time I flew by myself lastyear, that landing when we got
to oh where'd I go?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Indianapolis.
That landing was bad.
It scared me.
These were smoother.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
All right.
So you're on the plane You'retaking off.
You've got to go where.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Got to go to Dallas.
All right, you go to dallas,you've got a layover a couple of
hours, but by the time you getto where you're going, it's like
you're glad you got that muchtime in between, because I had
to ride the train to get toanother terminal you don't want
to be in a rush when you don'tknow where, and I'm like I got
no clue.
I'm texting people.
I'm like, am I supposed to dothis?
(10:26):
Am I supposed to get on thistrain?
It's called skyline.
At dallas it was called theskyline.
I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty sure that's what itwas called.
I'm like I didn't know whatthat meant.
I didn't know if it meant I wassupposed to get on there and go
.
I'm like, well, I got time, soif I'm not at the right place,
so then we get.
I get to the.
What's that called the terminal?
(10:47):
Is that?
No, what's your differentplaces?
I guess that is the terminal.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I guess so.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
There's where we're labeled like A, b, c, d, and.
Well, I went to A and then theychanged us to D.
No, I went to D, and.
And then if you don't havethese notices on your phone and
you're not like watching thecomputer, or whatever up there
(11:16):
there was.
I was sitting there with acouple other girls and they're
like oh, they just changed ourterminal look, this is.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
This is what gripes me about the world today.
It's like so I can't just be asimple man and say I don't want
to be involved with a cell phoneand I want to carry cash.
The world is doing away withwhat makes my life simple.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yep Right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yep Cash should be taken everywhere, but now,
everywhere you go, it's likethey don't accept it.
They want debit or credit allthat jazz.
And then when it comes to, likeyou're saying, with the phone,
well, guess what?
A lot of people use their phoneto show what's on their phone
to the ticket agent, or theboarding pass.
But I actually had my boardingpasses printed out, but also
(12:00):
like what you're talking aboutwith the changes and stuff like
that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
The phone is right, so if maybe she hadn't noticed
it, we'd have probably stillbeen sitting there you know yeah
so we had changed terminalsright there, but that we walked
there, that it wasn't too far,but getting on that skyline
thing I felt like I rode for 20minutes.
That's a big airport.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Dallas is huge all right, so you get on the
airplane so we get on at dallaswhat?
How long a flight are wetalking?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
dallas to costa rica was my american flag socks.
By the way, I see your americanflag socks.
Dallas to costa rica was threeand a half hours.
It's not.
It wasn't too bad.
That flight was good.
I think I slept a little bit onit.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So you get there, you get off, but you rode with
somebody.
You had somebody on the planeor several people.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, we had several.
Okay, there were several peopleon the same plane from Dallas,
so it's not like you land andlike right now, what do I do?
Yeah you got other people so welanded this little bitty
airport, little bitty airport,and that's where you got to go
through customs, right and allof that, and they're bringing
you in through customs.
So passport, all that yeah, youhad to get the passport out,
(13:24):
the other one, but you had toanswer all these questions when
you got there why are you here?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
do you have any fruit , did they ask you?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
that?
No, that's on the way back.
Okay, that was on the way back.
What are you going for?
How long are you staying?
Where are you going to?
Well, dummy me didn't know theplace where we're going, so I'm
glad the girl that I was walkingwith she's like you're gonna
need this address, so she textedto me because so you just can't
say, I don't know, but I'mstaying at a hotel because I'm
(13:52):
on vacation, yeah, and they'regonna be like what are they
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
like sorry if you don't know where you're going.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
yeah, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.
When we got off and we got inthere, I thought we're gonna be
here for hours because the linewas so long to get through
customs but probably about 45minutes and we were through
there and then, um, we had buseswaiting on us, um had the
(14:20):
people with the little red Aspensign waiting on us and from
there it was a two-hour drive onroads that were worse than
Walker County, where we live,and that's pretty bad.
At some places it was a bumpy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
A lot worse, a lot worse it was a bumpy, a windy.
Were, they all paved.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Bumpy, a windy Were, they all paved.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They might have been paved, but they weren't good.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Because when I went to Honduras.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You went to regular roads, roads with potholes, and
then you went to roads with justholes everywhere, and then you
went to no asphalt.
Asphalt, it's just nothing butmud.
No, I think we got what.
They all stayed at differentplace, of course, and we had
different, but we were close tohonduras.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's close to honduras, so you're a country
over yeah.
So we go there and of course,like we're all ready to get
there, and of course they'relike, oh, we're going to take
y'all this shortcut way andwe're going to let you drop by
the gift shop.
I don't want to go to no giftshop right now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
But they do.
They want you to Take me to theresort, they want your money.
They see American, I didn't buynothing.
I didn't buy nothing.
They didn't buy anything, Ididn't buy nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I just got off and stretched my legs and got back
on and said let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Alright, so two hour trip.
So scenery on the way, nothingspectacular.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh, there was some good scenery.
You seen some volcanoes and itwas just a lot of land.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Flat Hilly, mountainous, the ocean.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It was just a lot of land, flat hilly both
mountainous, yeah, both theocean no, I didn't say the ocean
till you got where you're yeahtill.
Basically we got where we weregoing.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I mean, I think we passed it and I missed it, but
you know so so you get there andit's like when you first step
out of here, like, like wow,this is amazing, or is it like
you're just seeing a sign andhaving to walk to a hotel?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
You, just like the whole Red Aspen team is there
welcoming you.
That was, that was fun.
The CEOs were there, theyhugged your neck and welcomed
you, and then you go in.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Let's go back for one second.
Air conditioning on the bus yes.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yes, or the wind is down.
Yes, air conditioning was onthe bus.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now, when we're talking bus, are we talking like
a big van or are we talking?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
like a school bus, like the church bus, like our
church bus, like a 15 passengertype bus thingy.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But on the way back it was probably a bus Kind, of,
like a shuttle, yeah, a shuttle.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, that's probably a better word a shuttle.
All right, so they're welcomingyou with open arms.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
They're welcoming and you got to go check in
Temperature outside it was okay,just like a summertime day.
Yeah, it was okay, just asummertime day, because you're
walking through the opening ofthe resort, you're going through
(17:27):
there and you go over here andyou check in, you get your swag
bag and my room's not ready soeverybody else is going to their
room and everybody else is notgetting there at the same times
either, you know, becauseeverybody's flights different.
So, um, my director's alreadythere.
She's like come, come on, getin, go change, let's go to the
pool.
So I'm like my room's not ready.
(17:49):
So I had to wait about 15, 20minutes for my room to be ready.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, big deal.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, when you're standing in there by yourself
and you really don't know whatto do and yeah.
I'm starving.
So they got some food overthere so I went and got a
sandwich.
It was pretty good.
I don't know what I ate, but Igot a sandwich, it was good.
Then, finally, I get my room.
I go up to my room, get changed.
(18:17):
Oh, did we talk about themonkey stuff on the last podcast
that I had to watch out formonkeys?
I think you'd mentioned that.
They've warned about it, warnedabout it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, you can get.
They have a lock on the ties atthe top.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay, on the inside, yeah, on the inside.
So I really thought that was uhand that's, that's monkey proof
in the monkey proof in the room.
I really thought that was, uh,yeah, they're just saying that,
you know.
But okay, so anyway, we'll getto the monkeys and get ready,
and it's like you just go Likeyou just have free range of this
(18:55):
whole resort, resortEverything's free.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So you just roam around the resort.
You got different pools anddifferent little it was like, oh
my goodness, four, fivedifferent pools.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There was like four or five different restaurants.
You finally walk all the waydown winding and you get to the
ocean.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So it's beach access.
It is beach access Attached toyes.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You just got to get there without sweating to death.
I thought Alabama had humidity.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It's hot down there.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Costa Rica got the humidity when you can't even sit
out at 7 o'clock in the morningand have breakfast without
sweating and you know I'm not, Idon't sweat much.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You get close to the equator, but this is what
happens.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I was sweating.
It's like you got to go by thepool or you can't.
You can't hack it, I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Just think about living down there.
I know Having a regular job.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I guess you get used to it, though I don't know.
I've lived in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I've lived in Alabama for 49 years and I hadn't
gotten used to the heat.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yet how long was that ?
49?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
you miss that again oh, a little over 49 in a few
months.
Oh so that night.
So I'm good.
What I'm gonna do, too, is, ason youtube, as we're discussing
this, I'll I'll pop some videosof the monkeys.
When you start talking aboutthe monkeys, I'll put that on
there.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So that night we just got there.
My roommate didn't get thereuntil late, bless her heart.
She didn't even get a welcomecommittee.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Because everybody came in at different times.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Mm-hmm, we had.
What did we do the first night?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
we had dinner somewhere, one of the
restaurants then see, I thoughtat the beginning of this, this
was like a working trip, likey'all had a thing to go to like
every day, that you'd haveclasses or whatever no, not this
one, not the one you earned.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Girls weekend what's called girls weekend?
I don't know why they call itgirls week I think y'all need to
change the name.
Swapping around girls weekendneeds to be like hey, the free
trip right, but girls weekend islike our conference, where you
go and you do classes and youhear speakers seminars, yeah,
stuff like that, um, but no,this one was a.
(21:23):
You do what you want to doanytime you want to do it so
you're trying to kind of relax.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The first night went out to eat.
I went to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
We saw the sunset and all that, so that was nice the
first night you should have tooka picture of that, a video I
got a picture okay I got lots ofpictures and then the next
morning, of course, like I'm nota get up early person, but let
me tell you I could not sleep.
I slept fine through the night,but at 5 and 5 30 I was ready to
(21:55):
get up and go out and like Iwould just lay there because,
because my friend over here, shewas asleep so I didn't want to
get up.
Oh, hold up, we gotta talkabout the room yeah, the room is
not private at all, not what Iconsider private.
It's one big room.
Okay, that's fine.
(22:15):
Your shower is behind a glassdoor and your commode is behind
a glass door, that if anybodyelse is in your room, they're
gonna hear you using thebathroom and you can pull the
curtain, but that's still notprivacy to me, I don't know.
So there's no doors in there,nothing, as far, there's not a
(22:37):
door to like.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Make a room to make.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No no.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So you don't have like a bathroom, it's just kind
of open.
It's just kind of over to theside A big room.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean, we'll show you a picture of that.
That's strange, so that wasvery strange when I got there.
It's not private, but whateverso.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So what's the temperature in the room?
I mean, could you get it downas cold as you wanted?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
it.
Yeah, Okay, Because we kept itcold and then we'd have to turn
it back up because I had it toocold.
One day we left and I forgot toturn it back up a little bit.
It was freezing when we cameback in there.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Well, I'd rather it be freezing than you get in
there and it's too warm andtrying to get it back cool.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It'd take forever, yeah, so um, so you got up, got
up like I was up and ready to go, like jody would have loved to
been on this trip with mebecause I did not stay in the
bed.
I was up and ready to go andI'm never up and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm like, I'm like itching to go.
I was like there's daylight,something's got to be done.
Let's go find out what needs tobe done.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
And it wasn't like they had blackout curtains and
everything, so it wasn't likethe sun was coming in and waking
me up.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I just Well, time change, different location, yeah
, all this stuff, and I wasn'ttired.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Like I didn't feel, feel like I was tired, and so I
was up and ready to go everymorning by six o'clock like it
was perfect.
Um, and so the second day wehave, um, sunrise and mimosas,
and that that was the breakfast,and then the rest of that day
you done what you wanted to do,whatever you wanted to do, and
then our teams would kind ofmeet up and have lunch or dinner
(24:32):
together.
We got dressed up for dinnerand went to the different
restaurants.
We ate lunch one day, all thesedays run together.
We ate lunch today one day withthe ceo.
Then we had, oh, then, tuesday,we had an excursion you could
(24:54):
have done extreme which waswhitewater rafting, rappelling,
zip line, horseback riding andhot springs.
Um, man-made no, not man-madehot springs, natural hot springs
, that's what I'm trying to say.
Um, but I opted for the.
(25:15):
I didn't opt for that one, Iopted opted for the easy one,
just the hot springs and lunch.
But you had to ride a tractorto get there, after we had rode
the bus again another almost twohours.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
That far.
Yes, oh, I don't, I just saidnah.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, we wish the one that we had picked.
We wish we had just stayed.
Now, the view when we got therewas beautiful, and we were told
that they recorded one of thejurassic parks um at this
volcano.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that's a tourist selling point.
Maybe it is, maybe it was, butit was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Anyway, we'll put that picture in too.
We got authentic Costa Ricafood there, but it was like beef
and pork.
I got a pork chop.
It was good.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
From the local pigs that run around on the beach.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I guess so.
And then we went to the hotsprings.
So from there to get to the hotsprings you had to ride
tractors and that was another30-minute ride.
It was crazy, but I mean it wasfun.
But we did have one lady.
She doesn't do good with riding, she gets sick.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And she chanced it.
She did, oh, my goodness yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She did not feel good when we got there at all.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
How do you take a trip to costa rica if you're not
good with riding?
Well, I mean, we didn't know,we didn't know the plane I guess
so she was fine on the bus no,she why would you put yourself?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I don't, I don't know , I guess you know, we didn't
know how bad, bumpy and all thatit was gonna be well, I guess
you didn't know it was atwo-hour ride after you landed
on the plane, so well, we didknow that one, but we didn't
know the excursion ones weregonna be that far.
So, um, we did that excursionand then, so that was Tuesday.
(27:24):
We got back that night, ofcourse, we went and ate at a
restaurant Wednesday.
Yeah, wednesday, we had got todo what you wanted to do the
whole day.
And then that evening was theum dinner on the beach and it
(27:45):
was all white, so, like you hadto dress up in the white dress
and then we had prom.
After that, under the sea, promdance, going away party, so we
had to re redress for thatthat's crazy, so it was fun.
So, look, you have skippedthrough and not said a single
word about a monkey well, I wasgetting through all that okay,
(28:08):
but you made it sound like youdidn't see a monkey till the end
of your trip no, I forgot whatwe did in the first day, but
some of the people, um, some ofour friends did.
They got in their room.
With them in the room the otherlady thought it was the other
(28:28):
lady over there making noise andit wasn't and she turns around
and the monkey has stole theirChex Mix and out the door with
it.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
That and bubble gum, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That was another time that they got the bubble gum
throwing the bubble gum atpeople.
So then, wednesday is when wefinally saw monkeys, and I
FaceTimed y'all.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And we fed the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You're not supposed to feed the monkeys, so they
come up on your banister, theycome up on the balcony and, like
I really thought they weregoing to come in the monkeys
You're not supposed to feed themonkeys, so they come up on your
banister.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
They come up on the balcony and like I really
thought they were going to comein the door and I got nervous of
looking.
Like we never had food in ourroom, except we did order room
service a couple of nights, butlike that food was already gone,
so we didn't have snacks oranything in our room.
(29:23):
But it was a sight.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So why don't you feed the monkeys?
Why did they tell you not to?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
feed them.
I don't know, but everybodyfeeds them.
They got to know that everybodyfeeds these monkeys.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Why did y'all feed the monkeys when they tell you
not to?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because everybody else was Peer pressure.
They take it right out of yourhand.
I think I fed mine pineapple.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Do they gingerly grab it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
No, they grab that stuff Whatever you give them.
I think somebody tried to givethem pretzels.
They don't like pretzels.
They just shooed the pretzelsaway and walked on.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It was funny Too salty.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I know the one you sent me.
Is it a pineapple that he'seating?
He's sitting on the banister.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, or the railing yeah, that's the one I fed him
and he chews on it.
Then he looks straight up likehe's sucking the juice out of it
or something.
Yeah, I think that's what hedoes and takes a bite, because
you can hear it Really.
I think you can hear it, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
But I don't think so.
I think so.
It's just weird how he's doingit.
And 9.
If they get in your room, theylook for shiny things, shiny
things.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
So one day, the day we went to the hot springs, my
fingers were swelling, so I tookmy rings off and put them in
the safe, so there was nothingleft out.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And then one day you texted me and said, hey, I think
I've lost my watch.
Oh yeah, I had no clue.
And then I told you texted meand said, hey, I think I've lost
my watch.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Oh yeah, I had no clue.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And then I told you I didn't even put it on.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You said, the monkey got it Well.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I said no.
Look at all the wrists.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Oh yeah, look at the monkey's wrist.
That's the day we spent thewhole day at the pool and I
didn't even put it on, and Iguess I thought I had put it on
(31:30):
and I didn't.
Oh, and on day two, my director, that's over me, she got us
80-minute massages.
That was nice Was it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah it was.
That was real nice, so I'd beafraid it was like a deep tissue
massage.
You just tell them I mean shewould ask you is that too hard,
or I bet?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
yes, yeah, you would, you won't even do it.
Um, they ask you if you haveany points that need more.
You know massaging or whatever.
I was like nowhere on my back.
No, yeah, my shoulders, my neckBack, shoulders neck yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But that was nice, they had a cold plunge 80
minutes, I know, I thought thatwas long, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
They had this.
So at the spa they had thisrotation that you were supposed
to do too, and one of them was acold plunge, and I didn't have
time to do it.
I really wanted to do it, totest it, to see if I could do it
and how cold it was, and thenthey came and got us.
I'd forgotten about it.
And they came and got us forour massage.
(32:35):
We went in the sauna, we wentin the steam room.
The steam room, the steam room.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
It was your breath with the, the three pools of
water.
That was really hot.
It was almost like each one washotter yeah that was at the
natural spring yeah, and yousaid so, the one that we got in
was hot.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I I think it was like my shower water.
I like my showers hot so.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So there's one before that, so it wouldn't have been
as hot.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
No, it was hotter, so he took us all the way down.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
No, but I'm saying like, you took the middle one,
wasn't there three differentones?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
you could Well, yeah, but the one we went to first,
these weren't all connected.
Oh, okay, they weren'tconnected.
So the one he took us down tofirst it was just for red aspen
people, so he took us down inthere I know and uh, we took
some pictures and stuff and, umit, it was hot like bath water
(33:33):
and then we, there was, youcould do a mud bath, which is
not exactly what I thought itwas it was.
It was mud in buckets and youwiped it all over you and you go
stand and you bake in the sun.
I thought, when you tell me amud bath, I thought we getting
down in.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, I thought you got in mud.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well, the other crew did that, done the bigger
excursion, so anyway.
So we're walking around and wesee another pool that says I
forget what the temp on it was,and so this guy was going down
in it and he's like oh my, thisis hot.
He's like, but my wife willlike it.
And I'm like OK, I'm going totry.
(34:12):
I'm the only one out of ourcrew that tried it, so I went
down.
I think I went down three stepsand I was done.
I got back out of it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Just too hot.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
It was hot, it was really hot.
Yeah, you could not have doneit.
You barely could have done thefirst one we went in.
Yeah, probably not so.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I don't like hot, hot yeah.
But I couldn't do a cold plungeeither.
I'd be.
I know when our hot waterheater went out one time and I
had to take a cold shower thatwas miserable.
I don't know how people do acold punch.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I don't know either but I wanted to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't have the willpower.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I totally forgot and we ran out of time to do that,
so I had a good time.
Would I go back?
Yes, if it was free.
Yes, I think that's the thing Ilike the most about it.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I wonder how expensive it'd be if you went
for four days.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You just walk up and say I need a Coke.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, that would be nice I need a slice of pizza.
But your trip back.
You said you sat besidesomebody.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh, my goodness, that was from.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Oh, you landed in Miami.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
This time I had to go to Miami.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And you had a three-hour layover.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I had a three hour layover.
I had a three or four hourlayover somewhere in there, I
can't remember yeah, because youdidn't get back till midnight,
one o'clock in the morning Ididn't get home till after one
o'clock on a monday morning.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Sunday night monday morning no no, what am I?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
third friday yeah, friday, yeah so on the way back,
I've had good flights.
You know everything's gonesmooth, except I did get nervous
.
Did I not text you when we wasgoing through?
It was the flight from CostaRica to Miami.
They started pulling people outand checking them and I'm a
(35:56):
little agitated Not agitated,I'm a little almost freaking out
because I'm like my suitcase isso packed.
If he opened that thing, it'sall going to pop out on him and
I'm like how am I going to geteverything back in here?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That'd be a struggle.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I was struggling and so they had somebody up there.
As my turn was coming up, theyalready had somebody up there.
She couldn't get my thing toscan.
I'm like, oh, my gosh, well shehad to type it in my uh, my, I
was gonna say receipt my ticket,whatever, it's a boarding pass.
Yeah, it wasn't scanned.
She typed it in.
Fine, we went on.
(36:31):
I'm like, oh, I can just see mysuitcase popping open and all
my stuff falling out, right, andhow am I going to get it back
in there?
Because it took me a flippingminute to get it all in there.
To start with, I left somestuff at Costa Rica Two dresses
and some shoes.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
really I did.
They were sheen dresses.
They cost me one was six andone was 12.
I mean, you know, I wouldn'thave ever worn them again anyway
.
But we got these swag bags andwe got the biggest towel.
It was so thick.
I mean it was a good gesture.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You had to make room for stuff, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
So that's why I say, next time I will not do it Just
don't take as much.
You're there four days.
You need swim clothes, you needdress clothes.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You got too many dress.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Appearance you're a woman you're gonna carry all
these because you don't knowwhat you want to wear so anyway.
So once you got on the miamiflight to birmingham, once we
got on the miami flight, oh,every night there was a show.
Forgot that there was a littlethese dancers like, one night
was disco night, one night was,I guess, maybe mexican night
(37:45):
like chippendale or what no Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
You just said these dancers I don't know what
performers oh, that's evenbetter.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
That sounds better well, whatever they come out in
their little outfits and seethere you go, there we go.
Yeah, okay, digging yourself ahole no, because there was a 14
year old boy dancing well,nowadays it don't matter, it
really don't know what his agewas.
He just looked really young.
We done trivia one night downthere, like in the main lobby
(38:13):
part.
You could go and ask for icecream every night yeah, you uh
text me.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
We need no answer for one of the trivia questions.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Oh yeah, I was texting Jody, it was music
trivia, but then it went intosome movie trivia too, something
yeah.
Anyway, so okay, we're donewith all that.
And on my way back from Miamito Birmingham is just two hour
(38:40):
flight, hour and a half,something like that.
It wasn't bad, but this guythat sat beside me smelled
raunchy.
He smelled like poop.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Really.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I think he was farting.
I don't know what he was doing,but every time he would move in
his seat and I'm like, oh mygosh, he's pooped his pants.
How do people not know?
I don't know what he was doing,but every time he would move in
his seat and I'm like, oh mygosh, he's pooped his pants how
do people not know?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
I don't know, but then he'd pick his nose I'd say
that's nasty and I'm just like,do you not just?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
get any closer to the dang window over here.
He stunk so bad, it was so badand it was just a two-seater.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Oh, there wasn't three seats on that one.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
It wasn't three seats , it was two seats, so you were
really close.
So yeah, was it?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
a full flight too.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yes, that one was a full flight.
Yep, all of mine, but one werefull flights.
So the flight from Dallas toCosta Rica, me and this other
guy got lucky and there wasnobody in between us, so we had
plenty of room and that was theflight I didn't have.
I was a window seat, but therewas no window there.
(39:51):
I was so sad.
I picked a window seat everytime, and then I get there and
there's no window at that seat,or it's, I don't know.
I don't understand why I didn'thave a window.
I was a little mad because Icouldn't get any good pictures.
Yeah so, but yeah so my.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You want something to glance out of.
I know right there.
So my trip ended with stinkypeople, but you had a good trip
I did have a good trip and you'ddo it again and you'd go there
on vacation if it wasn't tooexpensive.
And you'd do it again and you'dgo there on vacation if it
wasn't too expensive.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I mean, it wasn't just like Do they have
snorkeling and stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yes, Now on the beach ?
Of course they did.
They had people coming up toyou wanting you to do these
excursions with them.
You could snorkel, you couldkayak, you could ride
four-wheelers, you could get amassage on the beach.
I think we had we had one ortwo that snorkeled, we had
(40:50):
somebody that kayaked.
Um, I think we even hadsomebody get a massage on the
beach.
So, um, I mean it, it was fun,but I think I just couldn't
relax and really enjoy it.
Yeah, just because of thesituation Of course so would I
go do it again.
Yeah, I'd go do it again.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
So in September we'll find out where next year's is.
So get ready.
Hmm, I'm going to bust it so Ican get back.
Why has it got to be so far?
Why can't they find somewhere?
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I'm going to bust it so I can get back.
Why has it got to be so far?
Why can't they find somewhere?
I don't know.
I mean you could go to Tampa.
Really, I don't know.
Really, pick a place, panamaCity.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Really no, why not?
Not an everyday place you couldgo Vegas.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
There's plenty of vacation spots in the US that
you could go, instead of goingto Costa Rica.
You don't think so?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
No I don't think so.
That was like 230 women thatearned that trip out of
thousands.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
That's crazy, that is crazy.
I didn't realize this companywas that big.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
And it's actually small.
Three women started it in theirdorm room, so do they rent out
the whole resort no, I thoughtit was rented out, um, but no,
the whole resort wasn't rentedout.
But they, they did like thatnight on the beach, like you
know.
They set out tables and theyhad a stage and all this stuff
(42:20):
for us and they had all the foodout there on the beach and then
I guess it was like a ballroomor like a conference room.
That can be turned intodifferent things.
You know, that's where the promor dance party was.
It was in there.
(42:41):
So I'm glad it wasn't outsidebecause it was hot yeah.
It was hot on the beach eatingthat night.
Yeah, it was hot, it was justhot.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Hot, so yeah, rain.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
No, it never rained while we were at the resort.
It rained on us coming to theresort and it rained on us going
back to the airport, but at theresort it didn't unless it was
overnight, you didn't know yeahthat's strange.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I would have figured you'd get rain all the time well
, he said this was the rainyseason.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
You never know what you're gonna get, but but it was
good.
It might have sprinkled, butthat was all it was good.
I'm back.
I'm ready to go back, right.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I need to enjoy it just a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I'm glad you're back.
Did you enjoy?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
it.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
No, I didn't Too much going on.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
You had too much going on you had too much going
on.
Yeah, all right.
So that's enough about me.
I'm done.
I've talked enough.
This is not my podcast thisyear's well, this was yours.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
This time we are done and done yeah out of here.
Yeah, shut her down check usout on youtube.
Check us out on tiktok.
Sometimes we do tiktok lives.
We haven't done one in a while.
No.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
We need to put some bloopers out.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
That's too hard.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
No, it's not, you just do it and let it go.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
What do you mean?
You just do it.
You have to go in and edit this.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
No, you don't Not a blooper, you just put it out
there.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Oh, I don't know about that he don't like the
bloopers.
It's too much work, it's not.
That's the whole part.
That's the whole point there itis work now if you've got a
blooper in your recording.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
That's fine is that what you mean?
No, when we started recordingand there's a blooper at the
beginning of this one yeah, butif you like, put them together.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
You have to reach, you have to find them, and no
you don't put them together, youcut it so you don't know.
You don't know what she'stalking about.
Go back to Costa Rica.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I just post every day .
I don't know what I'm talkingabout.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's different, it's different.
Trust me On.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
TikTok, it's not Just put your blooper out there and
let it go.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
No, because this is all intertwined.
You see this right here.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
It's like a file it's called a laptop that you put
this.
You know you have to have.
It's like it's hard.
All right, clip it.
Check us out on our nextepisode.
We're out of here.
Bye, see ya.
Welcome back to this episode.
It's a man who takes a popoverfor a drink.
It's a water, but it's flavored.
Yes, okay, and you justfinished your snack slash lunch
that I've been waiting on you tofinish so we can get started,
which is some kind of littletuna pack deal, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I had to have a bite of something because I didn't
get toast in Sunday school thismorning.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Those little tuna packs are pretty good, but
there's not enough there.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I mean, if you want a little quick protein or
something like that, yeah, for awoman, a young child would be
fine, but a grown adult.
Here I am.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
A grown adult can't live off that unless you eat
five packs at a time.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I eat that for lunch and that's all I'll eat for
lunch.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
If you could do it just right, you can slide it out
of the pack.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I would like it on some bread, but I just don't
take the time to do it for lunch.
But it's a good little snack.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I know when, uh, I went to honduras.
I think I took several of thosemaybe maybe I don't know, but,
speaking of honduras, a placesimilar to that that you just
got back from is costa rica.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Let's talk about your trip to costa rica it's been a
while two weeks so we gotta leadup to costa rica, you basically
well, you won or I earned youearned.
I earned it because I worked mybootay off yeah, you earn it
from your nail business.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You sell nails for red aspen yes is that how you
would say it you sold it for forthem.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I make a commission.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You make a commission off of what you sell.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I earn free stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
And so from everything that you sold
whatever like of a past year,From December last, december
2024, through the end of March.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So you got four months to earn so many points
and at the beginning of March Iearned my points about the
second week of March, so I wassitting there, so that one you
all expense paid.
All expense paid.
I ain't never been nowhere.
Yeah, you know where that'sfrom.
(02:22):
I guess everybody else won't,will they?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, they do, they know.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So we got to lead up to the Costa Rica thing.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
If you want to.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Like packing in the dark.
Yeah, I'm a procrastinator, hadto pack in the dark.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So let's start with your flight.
You needed to be at the airporton a Sunday morning.
At what time?
4?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
3.50?
3.30.
We was trying for 3.30.
Because my flight I had myflight started boarding at 4.30.
So we tried to get that, but myflight didn't leave until 5.01
or whatever.
So we got up at 2 o'clock 2.15?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, so leading up to that.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Leading up to that a pack in the dark.
We get storms.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, our power went off.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Before that.
This is why I may not have hada best of trip that I could have
had.
That don't make sense, does it?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
yeah, it does okay so you couldn't enjoy yourself, I
could, yeah that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I couldn't enjoy myself.
I like I felt like I couldn'tlet go and enjoy because my dad
passed away two days before Iwas supposed to leave for Costa
Rica.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So this was on a Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So he passed on a Friday and I played with whether
I was going or not, actuallyfor the next day or so.
I didn't have time.
I had to decide yes or no.
So I decided that well, withtalking with Jody, we decided
(04:11):
that it would be fine for me togo, that my dad would want me to
go.
He wouldn't not want me to go.
I earned that.
He was excited for me.
So I was going.
But in the meantime we have togo on Saturday to do some
planning and we're in thefuneral home and the storms
start rolling in Just out ofnowhere.
The power okay.
(04:33):
Now you're in the funeral homeand the power goes off.
That's a little creepy.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And just right before it went off.
I think that's when Nicholascalled me while I was in there.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah.
And he was at home.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And he said, hey, power just went off.
Is it a bad storm that camethrough?
I said, well, we can hear itoutside.
You know it's getting strong.
Got on the phone with him andit wasn't a minute or so and
then the power went off at thefuneral.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That was weird.
It went off and on it came backon.
It went off and on it came backon.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It went off and on, did it a couple, three times,
but then it came on and stayedon.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It stayed on, so we finished up there, whatever, and
we head home.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, we went to your dad's house to check on some
stuff anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Oh yeah, because we needed to go down there and make
sure the storm didn't comethrough.
Well, actually it did.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, we just needed to finish some stuff.
But when through well, actuallyit did.
Well, we just need to finishsome stuff.
But when we left there, we justfound out that trees everywhere
I mean random you'd go a miledown the road and there's like,
everywhere we went, we was yeah,there's chasing the storm yeah.
So then when we headed back home, when we got down our road,
just a few houses down before wegot to our houses, then we saw
well, there's your problem rightthere, with power lines down
(05:44):
and a big old tree on it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
A big old tree on it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So this is now we're talking say 3, 4 o'clock on a
Saturday evening.
Amanda's got to be at theairport by say 3.30,.
Just say 4 o'clock at the verylatest.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
At the very latest Because I had to go through
customs and all that.
No, no, no, no I the verylatest, the next morning,
because I had to go throughcustoms and all that.
No, no, no, no.
I didn't go through customs atBirmingham.
Yeah, I went through customs atDallas, right.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Anyway, we can get to that, is that right, okay?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I get confused on security and customs.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well, you're getting me confused because you're
jumping back and forth.
So that's just with our time.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's just me I ADD.
Yeah, so we Four o'clock at thelatest.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Anyway.
So we had, Then we had somepeople bring some food.
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So we didn't have power, so we we had to eat
outside.
So yeah, we had the people thatcame over.
We told them say we can eat inthe house if you want to.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But it's extremely hot.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's gonna be hot, it's gonna gonna be cooler
outside and that ain't sayingmuch because it I mean it's not
it was comfortable, though, tome it was comfortable.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
To you.
It was hot, yeah, but yeah, soit got late.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And then long story short.
I didn't want to pay, didn'tget, I went to bed I needed to
wash, and so I probably got fourhours of sleep, maybe, and you
probably got four hours of sleepmaybe, and you probably got two
hours of sleep.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I think it was 12.30 when I finally laid down.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I had to get up at 2.15.
Had no clue what I reallypacked.
I threw things in there.
Yeah, note to self, I won'ttake a carry-on when I go for a
long trip like that anymore.
I was shoving and pushingBecause you couldn't get it in
the load pushing because youcouldn't get it in.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Because I couldn't get it in there, was it under
your seat or in the?
No?
No, no, I mean my stuff in thein the carry-on.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh yeah, I'm just gonna suck it up and pay for a
bag.
No, yes, I am no, I do acarry-on nope if you were a girl
you wouldn't, and I learned mylesson because I had to leave
stuff there, because I couldn'tget it back in my bag.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But so we got up that morning and it was raining and
it rained the whole way there,lightning.
All that got you there I wasreally nervous to fly but you
gotta remember that we didn'thave power all night long so I
didn't even get ready.
So yeah, so we're usingflashlights and lights on the
phone and all that, and they hadsaid that sometime Sunday, like
(08:10):
Sunday afternoon is when it wasgoing to come on, so this is
very unusual for us.
We don't ever lose power.
If we do, it's not very long.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
And I had just bought groceries because I knew I was
going.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So, I bought the boys you know all their freezer
stuff.
So our refrigerator issemi-full and so get you to the
airport.
I leave Now.
You're checking in, you'redoing your thing, right.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, you can take it from there, because all I did
was drive back and wish I was inthe bed and knew.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I had to teach Sunday school and work, do some work.
I was just afraid that weweren't going gonna be able to
take off because it was stillstorming and all, but the flight
was actually fine.
I guess it had went.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's strange to take off in rain, though, it feels to
me like how can you getairplane to, to go and even to
stop, like landing in the rain.
You know when we came back fromtampa, that time you know it
was raining when we came backyeah and it was like how are
they gonna stop this plane withthis rain?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
it feels like you just figure out another way to
stop a plane.
Why?
Why are we not slowing down alittle bit more before we hit
that ground?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
because you'd crash.
That's why because you have tobe a certain speed, but you're
still going fast, you don't wantto stall out and then try and
land.
No, but daggum when you landand you're like and then when
you yeah, it's called brakes andthere's not a better thing than
brakes.
So I'm sorry.
I mean you can throw thatparachute behind you, but you're
still going to need some brakes, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well, these landings probably weren't as bad as the
first time I flew by myself lastyear, that landing when we got
to oh where'd I go?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Indianapolis.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Indianapolis.
That landing was bad.
It scared me.
These were smoother.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
All right.
So you're on the plane You'retaking off.
You've got to go where.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Got to go to Dallas.
All right, you go to dallas,you've got a layover a couple of
hours, but by the time you getto where you're going, it's like
you're glad you got that muchtime in between, because I had
to ride the train to get toanother terminal you don't want
to be in a rush when you don'tknow where, and I'm like I got
no clue.
I'm texting people.
I'm like, am I supposed to dothis?
(10:26):
Am I supposed to get on thistrain?
It's called skyline.
At dallas it was called theskyline.
I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty sure that's what itwas called.
I'm like I didn't know whatthat meant.
I didn't know if it meant I wassupposed to get on there and go
.
I'm like, well, I got time, soif I'm not at the right place,
so then we get.
I get to the.
What's that called the terminal?
(10:47):
Is that?
No, what's your differentplaces?
I guess that is the terminal.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I guess so.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
There's where we're labeled like A, b, c, d, and.
Well, I went to A and then theychanged us to D.
No, I went to D, and.
And then if you don't havethese notices on your phone and
you're not like watching thecomputer, or whatever up there
(11:16):
there was.
I was sitting there with acouple other girls and they're
like oh, they just changed ourterminal look, this is.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
This is what gripes me about the world today.
It's like so I can't just be asimple man and say I don't want
to be involved with a cell phoneand I want to carry cash.
The world is doing away withwhat makes my life simple.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yep Right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yep Cash should be taken everywhere, but now,
everywhere you go, it's likethey don't accept it.
They want debit or credit allthat jazz.
And then when it comes to, likeyou're saying, with the phone,
well, guess what?
A lot of people use their phoneto show what's on their phone
to the ticket agent, or theboarding pass.
But I actually had my boardingpasses printed out, but also
(12:00):
like what you're talking aboutwith the changes and stuff like
that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
The phone is right, so if maybe she hadn't noticed
it, we'd have probably stillbeen sitting there you know yeah
so we had changed terminalsright there, but that we walked
there, that it wasn't too far,but getting on that skyline
thing I felt like I rode for 20minutes.
That's a big airport.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Dallas is huge all right, so you get on the
airplane so we get on at dallaswhat?
How long a flight are wetalking?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
dallas to costa rica was my american flag socks.
By the way, I see your americanflag socks.
Dallas to costa rica was threeand a half hours.
It's not.
It wasn't too bad.
That flight was good.
I think I slept a little bit onit.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So you get there, you get off, but you rode with
somebody.
You had somebody on the planeor several people.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, we had several.
Okay, there were several peopleon the same plane from Dallas,
so it's not like you land andlike right now, what do I do?
Yeah you got other people so welanded this little bitty
airport, little bitty airport,and that's where you got to go
through customs, right and allof that, and they're bringing
you in through customs.
So passport, all that yeah, youhad to get the passport out,
(13:24):
the other one, but you had toanswer all these questions when
you got there why are you here?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
do you have any fruit , did they ask you?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
that?
No, that's on the way back.
Okay, that was on the way back.
What are you going for?
How long are you staying?
Where are you going to?
Well, dummy me didn't know theplace where we're going, so I'm
glad the girl that I was walkingwith she's like you're gonna
need this address, so she textedto me because so you just can't
say, I don't know, but I'mstaying at a hotel because I'm
(13:52):
on vacation, yeah, and they'regonna be like what are they
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
like sorry if you don't know where you're going.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
yeah, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.
When we got off and we got inthere, I thought we're gonna be
here for hours because the linewas so long to get through
customs but probably about 45minutes and we were through
there and then, um, we had buseswaiting on us, um had the
(14:20):
people with the little red Aspensign waiting on us and from
there it was a two-hour drive onroads that were worse than
Walker County, where we live,and that's pretty bad.
At some places it was a bumpy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
A lot worse, a lot worse it was a bumpy, a windy.
Were, they all paved.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Bumpy, a windy Were, they all paved.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
They might have been paved, but they weren't good.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Because when I went to Honduras.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You went to regular roads, roads with potholes, and
then you went to roads with justholes everywhere, and then you
went to no asphalt.
Asphalt, it's just nothing butmud.
No, I think we got what.
They all stayed at differentplace, of course, and we had
different, but we were close tohonduras.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's close to honduras, so you're a country
over yeah.
So we go there and of course,like we're all ready to get
there, and of course they'relike, oh, we're going to take
y'all this shortcut way andwe're going to let you drop by
the gift shop.
I don't want to go to no giftshop right now.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
But they do.
They want you to Take me to theresort, they want your money.
They see American, I didn't buynothing.
I didn't buy nothing.
They didn't buy anything, Ididn't buy nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I just got off and stretched my legs and got back
on and said let's go.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Alright, so two hour trip.
So scenery on the way, nothingspectacular.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh, there was some good scenery.
You seen some volcanoes and itwas just a lot of land.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Flat Hilly, mountainous, the ocean.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It was just a lot of land, flat hilly both
mountainous, yeah, both theocean no, I didn't say the ocean
till you got where you're yeahtill.
Basically we got where we weregoing.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I mean, I think we passed it and I missed it, but
you know so so you get there andit's like when you first step
out of here, like, like wow,this is amazing, or is it like
you're just seeing a sign andhaving to walk to a hotel?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
You, just like the whole Red Aspen team is there
welcoming you.
That was, that was fun.
The CEOs were there, theyhugged your neck and welcomed
you, and then you go in.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Let's go back for one second.
Air conditioning on the bus yes.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yes, or the wind is down.
Yes, air conditioning was onthe bus.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now, when we're talking bus, are we talking like
a big van or are we talking?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
like a school bus, like the church bus, like our
church bus, like a 15 passengertype bus thingy.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But on the way back it was probably a bus Kind, of,
like a shuttle, yeah, a shuttle.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, that's probably a better word a shuttle.
All right, so they're welcomingyou with open arms.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
They're welcoming and you got to go check in
Temperature outside it was okay,just like a summertime day.
Yeah, it was okay, just asummertime day, because you're
walking through the opening ofthe resort, you're going through
(17:27):
there and you go over here andyou check in, you get your swag
bag and my room's not ready soeverybody else is going to their
room and everybody else is notgetting there at the same times
either, you know, becauseeverybody's flights different.
So, um, my director's alreadythere.
She's like come, come on, getin, go change, let's go to the
pool.
So I'm like my room's not ready.
(17:49):
So I had to wait about 15, 20minutes for my room to be ready.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, big deal.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, when you're standing in there by yourself
and you really don't know whatto do and yeah.
I'm starving.
So they got some food overthere so I went and got a
sandwich.
It was pretty good.
I don't know what I ate, but Igot a sandwich, it was good.
Then, finally, I get my room.
I go up to my room, get changed.
(18:17):
Oh, did we talk about themonkey stuff on the last podcast
that I had to watch out formonkeys?
I think you'd mentioned that.
They've warned about it, warnedabout it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, you can get.
They have a lock on the ties atthe top.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay, on the inside, yeah, on the inside.
So I really thought that was uhand that's, that's monkey proof
in the monkey proof in the room.
I really thought that was, uh,yeah, they're just saying that,
you know.
But okay, so anyway, we'll getto the monkeys and get ready,
and it's like you just go Likeyou just have free range of this
(18:55):
whole resort, resortEverything's free.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So you just roam around the resort.
You got different pools anddifferent little it was like, oh
my goodness, four, fivedifferent pools.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There was like four or five different restaurants.
You finally walk all the waydown winding and you get to the
ocean.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So it's beach access.
It is beach access Attached toyes.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You just got to get there without sweating to death.
I thought Alabama had humidity.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
It's hot down there.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Costa Rica got the humidity when you can't even sit
out at 7 o'clock in the morningand have breakfast without
sweating and you know I'm not, Idon't sweat much.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You get close to the equator, but this is what
happens.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I was sweating.
It's like you got to go by thepool or you can't.
You can't hack it, I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Just think about living down there.
I know Having a regular job.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I guess you get used to it, though I don't know.
I've lived in Alabama.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I've lived in Alabama for 49 years and I hadn't
gotten used to the heat.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yet how long was that ?
49?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
you miss that again oh, a little over 49 in a few
months.
Oh so that night.
So I'm good.
What I'm gonna do, too, is, ason youtube, as we're discussing
this, I'll I'll pop some videosof the monkeys.
When you start talking aboutthe monkeys, I'll put that on
there.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So that night we just got there.
My roommate didn't get thereuntil late, bless her heart.
She didn't even get a welcomecommittee.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Because everybody came in at different times.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Mm-hmm, we had.
What did we do the first night?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
we had dinner somewhere, one of the
restaurants then see, I thoughtat the beginning of this, this
was like a working trip, likey'all had a thing to go to like
every day, that you'd haveclasses or whatever no, not this
one, not the one you earned.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Girls weekend what's called girls weekend?
I don't know why they call itgirls week I think y'all need to
change the name.
Swapping around girls weekendneeds to be like hey, the free
trip right, but girls weekend islike our conference, where you
go and you do classes and youhear speakers seminars, yeah,
stuff like that, um, but no,this one was a.
(21:23):
You do what you want to doanytime you want to do it so
you're trying to kind of relax.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The first night went out to eat.
I went to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
We saw the sunset and all that, so that was nice the
first night you should have tooka picture of that, a video I
got a picture okay I got lots ofpictures and then the next
morning, of course, like I'm nota get up early person, but let
me tell you I could not sleep.
I slept fine through the night,but at 5 and 5 30 I was ready to
(21:55):
get up and go out and like Iwould just lay there because,
because my friend over here, shewas asleep so I didn't want to
get up.
Oh, hold up, we gotta talkabout the room yeah, the room is
not private at all, not what Iconsider private.
It's one big room.
Okay, that's fine.
(22:15):
Your shower is behind a glassdoor and your commode is behind
a glass door, that if anybodyelse is in your room, they're
gonna hear you using thebathroom and you can pull the
curtain, but that's still notprivacy to me, I don't know.
So there's no doors in there,nothing, as far, there's not a
(22:37):
door to like.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Make a room to make.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No no.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So you don't have like a bathroom, it's just kind
of open.
It's just kind of over to theside A big room.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean, we'll show you a picture of that.
That's strange, so that wasvery strange when I got there.
It's not private, but whateverso.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So what's the temperature in the room?
I mean, could you get it downas cold as you wanted?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
it.
Yeah, Okay, Because we kept itcold and then we'd have to turn
it back up because I had it toocold.
One day we left and I forgot toturn it back up a little bit.
It was freezing when we cameback in there.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Well, I'd rather it be freezing than you get in
there and it's too warm andtrying to get it back cool.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It'd take forever, yeah, so um, so you got up, got
up like I was up and ready to go, like jody would have loved to
been on this trip with mebecause I did not stay in the
bed.
I was up and ready to go andI'm never up and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm like, I'm like itching to go.
I was like there's daylight,something's got to be done.
Let's go find out what needs tobe done.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
And it wasn't like they had blackout curtains and
everything, so it wasn't likethe sun was coming in and waking
me up.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I just Well, time change, different location, yeah
, all this stuff, and I wasn'ttired.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Like I didn't feel, feel like I was tired, and so I
was up and ready to go everymorning by six o'clock like it
was perfect.
Um, and so the second day wehave, um, sunrise and mimosas,
and that that was the breakfast,and then the rest of that day
you done what you wanted to do,whatever you wanted to do, and
then our teams would kind ofmeet up and have lunch or dinner
(24:32):
together.
We got dressed up for dinnerand went to the different
restaurants.
We ate lunch one day, all thesedays run together.
We ate lunch today one day withthe ceo.
Then we had, oh, then, tuesday,we had an excursion you could
(24:54):
have done extreme which waswhitewater rafting, rappelling,
zip line, horseback riding andhot springs.
Um, man-made no, not man-madehot springs, natural hot springs
, that's what I'm trying to say.
Um, but I opted for the.
(25:15):
I didn't opt for that one, Iopted opted for the easy one,
just the hot springs and lunch.
But you had to ride a tractorto get there, after we had rode
the bus again another almost twohours.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
That far.
Yes, oh, I don't, I just saidnah.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, we wish the one that we had picked.
We wish we had just stayed.
Now, the view when we got therewas beautiful, and we were told
that they recorded one of thejurassic parks um at this
volcano.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So that's a tourist selling point.
Maybe it is, maybe it was, butit was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Anyway, we'll put that picture in too.
We got authentic Costa Ricafood there, but it was like beef
and pork.
I got a pork chop.
It was good.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
From the local pigs that run around on the beach.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I guess so.
And then we went to the hotsprings.
So from there to get to the hotsprings you had to ride
tractors and that was another30-minute ride.
It was crazy, but I mean it wasfun.
But we did have one lady.
She doesn't do good with riding, she gets sick.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
And she chanced it.
She did, oh, my goodness yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
She did not feel good when we got there at all.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
How do you take a trip to costa rica if you're not
good with riding?
Well, I mean, we didn't know,we didn't know the plane I guess
so she was fine on the bus no,she why would you put yourself?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I don't, I don't know , I guess you know, we didn't
know how bad, bumpy and all thatit was gonna be well, I guess
you didn't know it was atwo-hour ride after you landed
on the plane, so well, we didknow that one, but we didn't
know the excursion ones weregonna be that far.
So, um, we did that excursionand then, so that was Tuesday.
(27:24):
We got back that night, ofcourse, we went and ate at a
restaurant Wednesday.
Yeah, wednesday, we had got todo what you wanted to do the
whole day.
And then that evening was theum dinner on the beach and it
(27:45):
was all white, so, like you hadto dress up in the white dress
and then we had prom.
After that, under the sea, promdance, going away party, so we
had to re redress for thatthat's crazy, so it was fun.
So, look, you have skippedthrough and not said a single
word about a monkey well, I wasgetting through all that okay,
(28:08):
but you made it sound like youdidn't see a monkey till the end
of your trip no, I forgot whatwe did in the first day, but
some of the people, um, some ofour friends did.
They got in their room.
With them in the room the otherlady thought it was the other
(28:28):
lady over there making noise andit wasn't and she turns around
and the monkey has stole theirChex Mix and out the door with
it.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
That and bubble gum, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That was another time that they got the bubble gum
throwing the bubble gum atpeople.
So then, wednesday is when wefinally saw monkeys, and I
FaceTimed y'all.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And we fed the monkeys.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You're not supposed to feed the monkeys, so they
come up on your banister, theycome up on the balcony and, like
I really thought they weregoing to come in the monkeys
You're not supposed to feed themonkeys, so they come up on your
banister.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
They come up on the balcony and like I really
thought they were going to comein the door and I got nervous of
looking.
Like we never had food in ourroom, except we did order room
service a couple of nights, butlike that food was already gone,
so we didn't have snacks oranything in our room.
(29:23):
But it was a sight.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So why don't you feed the monkeys?
Why did they tell you not to?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
feed them.
I don't know, but everybodyfeeds them.
They got to know that everybodyfeeds these monkeys.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Why did y'all feed the monkeys when they tell you
not to?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because everybody else was Peer pressure.
They take it right out of yourhand.
I think I fed mine pineapple.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Do they gingerly grab it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
No, they grab that stuff Whatever you give them.
I think somebody tried to givethem pretzels.
They don't like pretzels.
They just shooed the pretzelsaway and walked on.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It was funny Too salty.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I don't know, maybe.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I know the one you sent me.
Is it a pineapple that he'seating?
He's sitting on the banister.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, or the railing yeah, that's the one I fed him
and he chews on it.
Then he looks straight up likehe's sucking the juice out of it
or something.
Yeah, I think that's what hedoes and takes a bite, because
you can hear it Really.
I think you can hear it, Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
But I don't think so.
I think so.
It's just weird how he's doingit.
And 9.
If they get in your room, theylook for shiny things, shiny
things.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
So one day, the day we went to the hot springs, my
fingers were swelling, so I tookmy rings off and put them in
the safe, so there was nothingleft out.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
And then one day you texted me and said, hey, I think
I've lost my watch.
Oh yeah, I had no clue.
And then I told you texted meand said, hey, I think I've lost
my watch.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Oh yeah, I had no clue.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And then I told you I didn't even put it on.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
You said, the monkey got it Well.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I said no.
Look at all the wrists.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Oh yeah, look at the monkey's wrist.
That's the day we spent thewhole day at the pool and I
didn't even put it on, and Iguess I thought I had put it on
(31:30):
and I didn't.
Oh, and on day two, my director, that's over me, she got us
80-minute massages.
That was nice Was it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah it was.
That was real nice, so I'd beafraid it was like a deep tissue
massage.
You just tell them I mean shewould ask you is that too hard,
or I bet?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
yes, yeah, you would, you won't even do it.
Um, they ask you if you haveany points that need more.
You know massaging or whatever.
I was like nowhere on my back.
No, yeah, my shoulders, my neckBack, shoulders neck yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But that was nice, they had a cold plunge 80
minutes, I know, I thought thatwas long, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
They had this.
So at the spa they had thisrotation that you were supposed
to do too, and one of them was acold plunge, and I didn't have
time to do it.
I really wanted to do it, totest it, to see if I could do it
and how cold it was, and thenthey came and got us.
I'd forgotten about it.
And they came and got us forour massage.
(32:35):
We went in the sauna, we wentin the steam room.
The steam room, the steam room.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
It was your breath with the, the three pools of
water.
That was really hot.
It was almost like each one washotter yeah that was at the
natural spring yeah, and yousaid so, the one that we got in
was hot.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I I think it was like my shower water.
I like my showers hot so.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So there's one before that, so it wouldn't have been
as hot.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
No, it was hotter, so he took us all the way down.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
No, but I'm saying like, you took the middle one,
wasn't there three differentones?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
you could Well, yeah, but the one we went to first,
these weren't all connected.
Oh, okay, they weren'tconnected.
So the one he took us down tofirst it was just for red aspen
people, so he took us down inthere I know and uh, we took
some pictures and stuff and, umit, it was hot like bath water
(33:33):
and then we, there was, youcould do a mud bath, which is
not exactly what I thought itwas it was.
It was mud in buckets and youwiped it all over you and you go
stand and you bake in the sun.
I thought, when you tell me amud bath, I thought we getting
down in.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, I thought you got in mud.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well, the other crew did that, done the bigger
excursion, so anyway.
So we're walking around and wesee another pool that says I
forget what the temp on it was,and so this guy was going down
in it and he's like oh my, thisis hot.
He's like, but my wife willlike it.
And I'm like OK, I'm going totry.
(34:12):
I'm the only one out of ourcrew that tried it, so I went
down.
I think I went down three stepsand I was done.
I got back out of it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Just too hot.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
It was hot, it was really hot.
Yeah, you could not have doneit.
You barely could have done thefirst one we went in.
Yeah, probably not so.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I don't like hot, hot yeah.
But I couldn't do a cold plungeeither.
I'd be.
I know when our hot waterheater went out one time and I
had to take a cold shower thatwas miserable.
I don't know how people do acold punch.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I don't know either but I wanted to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't have the willpower.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I totally forgot and we ran out of time to do that,
so I had a good time.
Would I go back?
Yes, if it was free.
Yes, I think that's the thing Ilike the most about it.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I wonder how expensive it'd be if you went
for four days.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
You just walk up and say I need a Coke.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, that would be nice I need a slice of pizza.
But your trip back.
You said you sat besidesomebody.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh, my goodness, that was from.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Oh, you landed in Miami.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
This time I had to go to Miami.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And you had a three-hour layover.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I had a three hour layover.
I had a three or four hourlayover somewhere in there, I
can't remember yeah, because youdidn't get back till midnight,
one o'clock in the morning Ididn't get home till after one
o'clock on a monday morning.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Sunday night monday morning no no, what am I?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
third friday yeah, friday, yeah so on the way back,
I've had good flights.
You know everything's gonesmooth, except I did get nervous
.
Did I not text you when we wasgoing through?
It was the flight from CostaRica to Miami.
They started pulling people outand checking them and I'm a
(35:56):
little agitated Not agitated,I'm a little almost freaking out
because I'm like my suitcase isso packed.
If he opened that thing, it'sall going to pop out on him and
I'm like how am I going to geteverything back in here?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That'd be a struggle.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I was struggling and so they had somebody up there.
As my turn was coming up, theyalready had somebody up there.
She couldn't get my thing toscan.
I'm like, oh, my gosh, well shehad to type it in my uh, my, I
was gonna say receipt my ticket,whatever, it's a boarding pass.
Yeah, it wasn't scanned.
She typed it in.
Fine, we went on.
(36:31):
I'm like, oh, I can just see mysuitcase popping open and all
my stuff falling out, right, andhow am I going to get it back
in there?
Because it took me a flippingminute to get it all in there.
To start with, I left somestuff at Costa Rica Two dresses
and some shoes.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
really I did.
They were sheen dresses.
They cost me one was six andone was 12.
I mean, you know, I wouldn'thave ever worn them again anyway
.
But we got these swag bags andwe got the biggest towel.
It was so thick.
I mean it was a good gesture.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You had to make room for stuff, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
So that's why I say, next time I will not do it Just
don't take as much.
You're there four days.
You need swim clothes, you needdress clothes.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You got too many dress.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Appearance you're a woman you're gonna carry all
these because you don't knowwhat you want to wear so anyway.
So once you got on the miamiflight to birmingham, once we
got on the miami flight, oh,every night there was a show.
Forgot that there was a littlethese dancers like, one night
was disco night, one night was,I guess, maybe mexican night
(37:45):
like chippendale or what no Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
You just said these dancers I don't know what
performers oh, that's evenbetter.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
That sounds better well, whatever they come out in
their little outfits and seethere you go, there we go.
Yeah, okay, digging yourself ahole no, because there was a 14
year old boy dancing well,nowadays it don't matter, it
really don't know what his agewas.
He just looked really young.
We done trivia one night downthere, like in the main lobby
(38:13):
part.
You could go and ask for icecream every night yeah, you uh
text me.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
We need no answer for one of the trivia questions.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Oh yeah, I was texting Jody, it was music
trivia, but then it went intosome movie trivia too, something
yeah.
Anyway, so okay, we're donewith all that.
And on my way back from Miamito Birmingham is just two hour
(38:40):
flight, hour and a half,something like that.
It wasn't bad, but this guythat sat beside me smelled
raunchy.
He smelled like poop.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Really.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
I think he was farting.
I don't know what he was doing,but every time he would move in
his seat and I'm like, oh mygosh, he's pooped his pants.
How do people not know?
I don't know what he was doing,but every time he would move in
his seat and I'm like, oh mygosh, he's pooped his pants how
do people not know?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
I don't know, but then he'd pick his nose I'd say
that's nasty and I'm just like,do you not just?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
get any closer to the dang window over here.
He stunk so bad, it was so badand it was just a two-seater.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Oh, there wasn't three seats on that one.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
It wasn't three seats , it was two seats, so you were
really close.
So yeah, was it?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
a full flight too.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yes, that one was a full flight.
Yep, all of mine, but one werefull flights.
So the flight from Dallas toCosta Rica, me and this other
guy got lucky and there wasnobody in between us, so we had
plenty of room and that was theflight I didn't have.
I was a window seat, but therewas no window there.
(39:51):
I was so sad.
I picked a window seat everytime, and then I get there and
there's no window at that seat,or it's, I don't know.
I don't understand why I didn'thave a window.
I was a little mad because Icouldn't get any good pictures.
Yeah so, but yeah so my.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You want something to glance out of.
I know right there.
So my trip ended with stinkypeople, but you had a good trip
I did have a good trip and you'ddo it again and you'd go there
on vacation if it wasn't tooexpensive.
And you'd do it again and you'dgo there on vacation if it
wasn't too expensive.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I mean, it wasn't just like Do they have
snorkeling and stuff like that?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yes, Now on the beach ?
Of course they did.
They had people coming up toyou wanting you to do these
excursions with them.
You could snorkel, you couldkayak, you could ride
four-wheelers, you could get amassage on the beach.
I think we had we had one ortwo that snorkeled, we had
(40:50):
somebody that kayaked.
Um, I think we even hadsomebody get a massage on the
beach.
So, um, I mean it, it was fun,but I think I just couldn't
relax and really enjoy it.
Yeah, just because of thesituation Of course so would I
go do it again.
Yeah, I'd go do it again.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
So in September we'll find out where next year's is.
So get ready.
Hmm, I'm going to bust it so Ican get back.
Why has it got to be so far?
Why can't they find somewhere?
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I'm going to bust it so I can get back.
Why has it got to be so far?
Why can't they find somewhere?
I don't know.
I mean you could go to Tampa.
Really, I don't know.
Really, pick a place, panamaCity.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Really no, why not?
Not an everyday place you couldgo Vegas.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
There's plenty of vacation spots in the US that
you could go, instead of goingto Costa Rica.
You don't think so?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
No I don't think so.
That was like 230 women thatearned that trip out of
thousands.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
That's crazy, that is crazy.
I didn't realize this companywas that big.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
And it's actually small.
Three women started it in theirdorm room, so do they rent out
the whole resort no, I thoughtit was rented out, um, but no,
the whole resort wasn't rentedout.
But they, they did like thatnight on the beach, like you
know.
They set out tables and theyhad a stage and all this stuff
(42:20):
for us and they had all the foodout there on the beach and then
I guess it was like a ballroomor like a conference room.
That can be turned intodifferent things.
You know, that's where the promor dance party was.
It was in there.
(42:41):
So I'm glad it wasn't outsidebecause it was hot yeah.
It was hot on the beach eatingthat night.
Yeah, it was hot, it was justhot.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Hot, so yeah, rain.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
No, it never rained while we were at the resort.
It rained on us coming to theresort and it rained on us going
back to the airport, but at theresort it didn't unless it was
overnight, you didn't know yeahthat's strange.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
I would have figured you'd get rain all the time well
, he said this was the rainyseason.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
You never know what you're gonna get, but but it was
good.
It might have sprinkled, butthat was all it was good.
I'm back.
I'm ready to go back, right.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I need to enjoy it just a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I'm glad you're back.
Did you enjoy?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
it.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
No, I didn't Too much going on.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
You had too much going on you had too much going
on.
Yeah, all right.
So that's enough about me.
I'm done.
I've talked enough.
This is not my podcast thisyear's well, this was yours.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
This time we are done and done yeah out of here.
Yeah, shut her down check usout on youtube.
Check us out on tiktok.
Sometimes we do tiktok lives.
We haven't done one in a while.
No.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
We need to put some bloopers out.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
That's too hard.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
No, it's not, you just do it and let it go.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
What do you mean?
You just do it.
You have to go in and edit this.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
No, you don't Not a blooper, you just put it out
there.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Oh, I don't know about that he don't like the
bloopers.
It's too much work, it's not.
That's the whole part.
That's the whole point there itis work now if you've got a
blooper in your recording.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
That's fine is that what you mean?
No, when we started recordingand there's a blooper at the
beginning of this one yeah, butif you like, put them together.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
You have to reach, you have to find them, and no
you don't put them together, youcut it so you don't know.
You don't know what she'stalking about.
Go back to Costa Rica.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I just post every day .
I don't know what I'm talkingabout.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's different, it's different.
Trust me On.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
TikTok, it's not Just put your blooper out there and
let it go.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
No, because this is all intertwined.
You see this right here.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
It's like a file it's called a laptop that you put
this.
You know you have to have.
It's like it's hard.
All right, clip it.
Check us out on our nextepisode.
We're out of here.
Bye, see ya.
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