october 26

We finished the last of our cereal this morning, and our milk. We spent the first half of the day planting trees in the host plant garden near the gazebo. This is kind of cool, since it’s one of my life goals to plant 100 trees. I only have 92 left to plant before I die. When we were done planting trees on the hillside we weeded between the vines up there. The sky was so blue, with huge white clouds floating across. The sun was intense for a few minutes, then it would disappear and cool, over and over. On a day like today, this would easily be my favorite place to work. I took over the reception at 11:30 so Kendra could go to lunch, then we took our lunch. After lunch we went back to weeding the vines. It started pouring though, like a tropical rain, and we waited it out in the gazebo. It didn’t really let up though, so we headed back to the greenhouse and filled bags with dirt for the rest of the day. That’s easy work, although bending over the bags can kill your back. Right before we finished for the day Grant got called for a Portuguese tour, and I did an English one. After work we headed to the store to get some more produce. It’s weird not having a steady supply here since veggies make up 80% of our diets. We would have gotten some from the veggie man, but he didn’t show up today. We’re sure the lady at the store ripped up off when we bought our food. None of the produce is marked when we get there, so we have to ask her the prices of everything. She told us two plantains were 200 colones, but Grant saw her enter in 500 colones, which is a dollar. From now on we’re going to bring a paper and pencil with us when we shop so that we can add things up ourselves. Next time we’rein La fortuna we’re going to get a calculator also. Grant made a pasta with the cheyote we got while I typed up journal entries so it will be easier to post them all when we finally get regular internet access back next week. We finished the cake off, and Grant attempted to start a loaf of bread by capturing the wild yeast in the area. We’ll see tomorrow if his attempt works.