So, let’s see, yesterday I broke my computer even more than I already had by dropping it, which forced me to remember that I actually had my Leatherman and therefore hadn’t had to allow it to act all princessy. I opened up the back a bit, fixed the connections, and ta-da, my computer is (so far)* fixed.
Today, Carlos the dance teacher (not Carlos my teacher) drove us up to Monteverde. We arrived pretty late, so we haven’t seen much of this area, but the views on the way up were breathtaking. More literally so when a Coke truck decided, for some reason I don’t understand, that there was room for it on this windy and often unguardrailed road. Both our van and the Coke delivery semi had to tilt a bit into the gutters in order to get through, and I could have put my hand through the window and touched the truck without straightening my arm.
We’re at Hotel El Bosque, and there are a lot of bichos (bugs) here. The most worrisome is this weird red ant but also something else looking thing that Julie and Hayden were calling scorpions. There are some dead ones in our rug, and I just found one on my bed. There are also spiders coming out in the night; but I’m not going to tell Maria or Marlene about those. It does make me long for my mosquito net, though.
Tomorrow I go on the longest, and I think tallest, zipline in Costa Rica. I’m really excited, especially since you don’t have to self-brake on this one, which means I don’t have to worry about ending up in the middle of nowhere having to go hand over hand back to the end. I am worried I’ll drop my camera, though. I hope I don’t do that.
*Qualifiers like this are my way of knocking on wood when writing.
