SubscribeToday we had an odd awakening. We awoke to a much different sound than we have been accustomed to since we have been here, it was the sound of no rain. The rain actually stopped some time last night, and it has barely showed its face here since. We had a fairly dry walk to the sanctuary, with some new volunteers that arrived here last night. They are 3 girls from Minnesota.
On the walk there we were surprised to see so many more crabs outside. It seems that they like to come out when the rain stops. At some points you could see almost 50 butterflies at the same time as well, it was rather remarkable.
Today, it was just Harry (another volunteer from Britain, who has been here the whole time with us), the three new girls, and us at the sanctuary. We had a pretty normal day. We taught the new girls how to take care of many of the animals (at least to the best of our ability, All of our knowledge is kind of just from observation). We took the metal covers off of some of the cages to let some sunlight in for them. Under these metal sheets we found some geckos and other lizards hiding, which we had not seen before. Zoe rather tormented by the ants today, turns out that is where a lot of her bites have come from (that made her a little crabby, but don't tell her I said that).
Zoe and all of the other volunteers took all of the monkeys out to play on a log while I was stuck with the real work (sigh). Mary, the rather annoying and un-helpfull know-it-all (or rather quite the opposite) caretaker of the sanctuary decided that taking the oldest monkey out without a leash was a great idea, which lead to that same monkey darting for the trees and staying up there for a few hours. This put a hold on most of the work, as I kept a close eye on her (her name is Mona by the way), shaking hibiscus and a stuffed monkey at her (Mary's very intelligent instructions). After a couple of hours trying this, we took a mango out (but don't tell Mary), and Mona came straight down to us.
We rather quickly got everything done and took off from the sanctuary. Zoe and I stopped off at the supermarket to grab some things, and the headed to the bakery for lunch. This is the same bakery that we stopped at a few days ago and had a hard time finding a menu, but today we were much more successful (all you had to say was "menu por favor"). Zoe had casados vegetarianos while I had pita vegetarianos (see the pictures for details). They were both very delicious. We also picked up some baked good from the bakery, two brownies and a large slice of banana bread). During our meal was the only time it has rained all day, and it was done by the time we left.
When we got back to the hotel, we laid out in the hammocks on the beach for a while. Now here we are at 5:30pm writing our blog post for the day.
Love,
Matt and Zoe
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