LJTiMES...

TPTB have apparently decided to inflict some kind of puerile idiocy that eats screen real estate on those who have Cyrillic services enabled, and as far as I can tell - after some short struggle - this "feature" cannot be turned off!

(On the bright side, these people are only in charge of LiveJournal, and not something really important!)

Cheers...

The rainy season...

It is enough for either Galina or me to simply shake off some of the rain that fell on us while walking around outside, whereupon we will be informed by the closest interlocutor that we arrived during a particularly wet time during the annual rainy season.

It's just as well. I finished The Big Edit™ this morning and sent it off. Two items remain on the plate, but both can be put on hold until Galina and I return home.

* * *Yesterday's trek started pretty early, before 8 am, and we hit some traffic trying to leave town (which made no sense, as one usually associates the rush hour with incoming slowdowns.

On our way to the active Arenal volcano, we stopped in the town of Sarchi, where we saw the world's largest ox-cart (!) and stopped by the town's church. There was a very friendly - and very wet - dog in the town square, who went from person to person to greet us as we looked at the elaborately decorated cart, and then accompanied our little group into the church and kept his tail wagging all the time.


I didn't know what quite to expect at the volcano, and it turned out to be lunch at a roadside restaurant. I forget what I ordered, but this is what it looked like. It was good.


After lunch, I managed to snap the following picture through rain-streaked glass as our bus took us to the Baldi Hot Springs, where our group broke up into those who would spend the entire afternoon at the resort (including Galina and me) and those who would split the afternoon between ziplining through the rainforest canopy and the resort.


There was no readily visible volcanic activity at Arenel during the day or when darkness fell, during dinner. Our driver took us to the western side of the volcano, which has been more active of late, but we saw nothing from that side, either.

Getting home was something of an adventure, because the roads were wet and the rain kept falling. Though I slept for part of the way home, I managed to efforlessly fall asleep in a bed soon after returning home.

Cheers...