Costa Rica has a lot to offer when you visit this amazing place. Its natural beauty gives visitors a unique holiday experience you can’t find in most other holiday destinations. It’s the perfect holiday location for individuals and groups of people with differing interests and requirements. Some people like a quiet peaceful vacation, while others are interested in a more adventurous holiday. Others want a combination of relaxation and adventure. Costa Rica gives you all of these options. Here are some of the most popular things you can do in Costa Rica.

It seems impossible, I know. Enjoy traveling over the holidays? Really? As you brace protracted lines at the TSA checkpoint and your car crawls at a snail’s pace along the Interstate?
Even when everything goes according to schedule, the sheer volume of fellow travelers can exponentially magnify our level of stress.

You already know the basics. Keep a positive attitude, drink lots of liquids (the non-alcoholic kind), feed your body nutritiously, listen to music that makes you feel good.

Florida Culture to Help You Say Farewell to 2015 by Josh Garrick

NOW to Dec 27 – Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – The Musical 
The beloved classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is on-stage this holiday season with all your favorite characters in a new production at the Orlando Rep. Santa and Mrs. Claus, Hermey the Elf, the Abominable Snow Monster, Clarice, and of course, Rudolph are all there in this beloved musical adventure that teaches us what makes us different can be what makes us special. Call 407.896.7365x1 or visit orlandorep.com

Originally from Ashburn Virginia, Kiara Lee is a junior bioengineering student minoring in Spanish and Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. Her study abroad experience began the summer after her freshman year, when she studied abroad in Chile with a program called Plus3. This program was a partnership between the engineering and business schools at Pitt where students learned about the economy and various businesses in Chile.

Traveling to Texas for the holidays means dining on the best Mexican food and barbecue in the country. But during the Christmas season visitors to the Lone Star State can also feast on stellar seafood dishes.

At La Cantera Hill Country Resort SweetFire Kitchen restaurant, visitors can dine on shucked oysters on the half shell, marinated mussels, and savory salmon. Chef Jake Andrews has curated the most incredible, edible cuisine available at one of San Antonio’s best resort hotels.

Have you ever heard the expression, “Worth your weight in white gold?” If you have, you probably know that it doesn’t refer to rings or riches. Strange as it may seem, “white gold” was once a name for a common mineral most of use on a daily basis: table salt. 

Florida Culture for the Week of December 14, 2015 by Josh Garrick
 
NOW to Dec 22 – Dickens by Candlelight