@ 5 days to my departure from Costa Rica...

Some things worth mentioning that happened today at Cano Palma...

-I counted 18 Golden Orb spiders on their webs just outside my dormitory door.

-Saw 15 Toucans fly over the canal following each other...unusual! but very cool :)

-Got caught in the rainstorm while walking the beach this morning.

-Excavated a turtle nest and found 5 dead baby turtles.  A local couple was watching us at work with their daughters.  Their 3yr old started crying her eyes out when we had to put the dead babies back into the hole   :(  Her exact words were (sobbing) : "Why didn't they get oouuuut?? why could they not come out and swim to the water like the other baby turtles?? why do you want to bury them, why?? :( :( so sad and difficult to explain death to a 3yr old baby. This is her...her name was Aiden...very cute little girl.



-Went into the forest with Lauren, with wellies on and covered in mosquito repellent...did the mosquitoes care? nope...they followed ME only ME all the way anyway.

-Lauren walked into a spider web in the forest hehehhe :D

-We found a brood of Honduran tent-making white bats, a poison dart frog and a HUGE JAGUAR! ok...not the jaguar :P....just shared our thoughts on what our reaction would be if we saw one. RUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!! as if we'd have a chance.

- I took a shower in our beautiful state of the art outdoor roofless showers, and saw several monkeys, including babies on their mothers' backs, jumping (no...throwing) themselves from one tree to the next aiming for the branches :D

-Found Maggie, our guard dog...laying lazily on one of the dormitory beds, which she's prohibited to do. ayyyyy maggieeee...was that my fault? Probably. OK, MOST LIKELY. hehehe

-Lauren and I stayed alone for the night at the station...it got dark and there was a blackout!, what are the chances!! but Carlitos...our very loved and appreciated cook came to visit...we put on some candles, and he played the guitar and sang for us a whole hour :)