Well I finally found it. The blog dashboard that is. Yea!! I have a new Samsung lap top that is why. I am now a member of Price Smart..really Costco,more on that later.The ipad is not very helpful in that regard.

Here we are safe and sound. It is just lovely. Pictures do not do it justice.

Day 1...up at 5 am shuttle to TO airport a 2 hour wait,they are slow at Copa,book on line to avoid the line up.
Just made the flight with 5 minutes to spare,
Ok, we flew out at 647 am and we were in the airplane line at 640 am.That close. A 6 hour flight to Panama City with real cutlery and free booze!! I had a tomatoe juice......No really.

Ok, then it was a trip through immigration. Picture,fingerprints,passport, immigration details,please fill this out on the plane. Ok. We clear immigration and pick up or luggage. We are finished right..then...we have to go through customs,more paper work,get this on the plane too, and a further xray scanning of the luggage,she really was more interested in her iphone and her friends. We are finally finished.

There was then a taxi ride from the airport to the Tryp hotel.All pre arranged with the driver waiting for us at the airport,sign in hand,thank goodness. There is now  a connector flight to David so there is more traveling from Tocumen airport to Albrook.$40 with a tip. It was a 30 minute ride. Can you say aggressive...this is not for the faint of heart driver
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So we are pre booked at the Tryp and we have a great dinner and a local beer. Nice.
This picture is a summary of all we took for 4 months.

We stayed at the Tryp hotel in Panama City.Busy wow!! I saw 13 buses in a one second frame.

We toured the bottom section of the Albrook Mall.It is huge. It took an hour to go once around the bottom,never mind the top floor.There is every store you can imagine. Galleria mall, eat your heart out.
We had to ask for directions to get back to our hotel. Aprille found the carousel and had a little ride.She was too old,apparently, for the horses so she rode the coach.

The next day it is a few km ride to the Albrook airport. We called for the taxi to arrive at 720 and the cab did not get there till 740am for a 5 minute ride that took 15 minutes.Thank goodness there was no accident.Can you say aggressive..oh..I already asked that.
We got through check in quickly this time but we are allowed only 28 kg. and we had 56 kg of luggage.There goes another $40.
It was only a 1 hr trip to David by air or, we could have done it cheaper but that entailed a seven and a half hour bus ride,No thanks.

Our friends Don and Mary Anne pick us up from David after our luggage is again inspected for drugs. They have an absolute zero tolerance for drugs.

I don't know if it is clear,but there is a dog sniffing for drugs in this picture.

Nothing but the rustle of the wind or the song of birds,or maybe both.We overlook the Lucero golf course and we can see 6 of the 18 holes.

There is much more. More later. That is all I have time for LOL.