off to costa rica

so the rider fam was scheduled to fly into tulsa today...

last night i drove to downstream, played about 12 hours of poker and went to sleep at 3:30 a.m....set the alarm so i would wake up and drive to tulsa...

pitch black darkness...7:00 a.m., my phone rings (same sound as the alarm), only it was and unknown number which is usually costa rica...i answered and mrs rider is in a panic crying...so i assume i overslept and she is in tulsa...

well, here goes...she checks in at the airport in costa rica, the lady looks at ethan, the lady looks at jake, the lady looks at mrs rider, the lady looks at ethan, the lady looks at jake...then asks for jake's passport and retreats into a back office...

long story shorter, "technically" - "legally" - "barney fifeally"...we were supposed to have a document with my signature allowing the boys to travel with natalia...the boys are dual citizens in costa rica and the united states...when they are in costa rica they are legal citizens...so they told her that she could not travel without the document...long speech about child trafficking etc...

we have laws so that we can enforce them not so that we always have to enforce them...anyway...

here is the individual situation...this lady acknowledged that:
1. i was in the states: (so mrs rider would be trafficking my own child back to his home and to me)
2. he had traveled about 10 times to costa rica and back without me (passport stamps to prove it) and never needed any documentation...so if mrs rider was a child trafficker she has had the same kid for 7 years and has not been able to sell him in either the US or CR and keeps toting him around...

so to fix this???...i could fax the signed document, NOPE CROSS THAT OPTION OUT! (myself, the notoriety and mrs rider could be working on an evil sinister plot to take our son home)

i had 3 options, go to houston, D.C., or CR...since all 3 were about the same cost i chose CR...so i am leaving tomorrow for 4 days...sign my name, and leave...and "technically" what is happening is that i am signing to give the boys permission to travel alone...not even with mrs rider...

oh yeah, mrs rider has to purchase new plane tickets...

so the moral of the story...uh...well...hey costa rica immigration...@#$% YOU

apologies for the poorly written, scatter brained blog...sleep deprivation with a mixture of malice caused it to be so...

later from 3rd St.