And we're off!!

Monday evening around 10:30, the three of us met at the Regina airport which is when everything became much more real. With a hiking backpack and a carry on backpack each, we boarded our first flight to Toronto. The first flight was only about 3 hours, but we tried out best to catch some shut eye, as we knew that our excitement would only grow from here, making it much more difficult to sleep.
We arrived in Toronto at 5:30 AM local time (or 3:30 AM "real time" where we all used as much Data as our Smartphones could handle, as it would be our last opportunity to do so for 3 weeks.
Side note - Pidgeys and Ratatas were the only Pokemon caught during this layover. In hindsight, this time would have been best used on Duolingo.
After breakfast, Elora and Karen attempted to sleep which was only partially successful.
We began the second leg of our trip about 3 hours later when we boarded out plane headed for San Jose, Costa Rica. The five hour flight was spent mostly in a sleep/read hybrid state, which really flew by.
The airport in Costa Rica was the first place we really had our first confusing experience with currency and language and was actually a nice way to start out. In preparation of our journey, we had to Exchange our Canadian currency for American in order to trade for Cordovas in Nicaragua. Then, there was Costa Rica's currency that somehow had Christa spend the equivalent of $8.70 Canadian on a bottle of Evian water. (I mean agua).
It was at this airport where Elora ordered her first coffee in Español. #proudmoment
A new experience for the three of us here was seeing the worker dogs sniffing out drugs. There seemed to be quite a few of them, which is something we would never have seen in Canada.
Five hours passed very slowly, but we boarded our final plane around 4:30 PM for the last stretch of our day of travel. The last flight was only a 40 minute one, and to our surprise, when we arrived in Managua, it was already dark! We were able to see the lights of the city which really was beautiful, and felt extremely thankful that we had the safe travels that had been wished upon us by friends and family.
A very successful travel experience, indeed, aside from Christa's aerosol bug spray exploding in her bag and the lack of rare Pokemon spotted.