The Continuing Adventures...

So, I read through part of that last post, and I feel the need to justify the typos. The keyboard is different here, and I´m payin´ by the minute!!! (That was directed more at myself than anyone else.)

The days alone are oddly long, I´m noticing, so when it feels like it´s been a week, it´s in fact been a half week. This is no problem, though, because I´ve done plenty with the time. I´ve done some more surfing, which has been good. For some reason I don´t go out more than once a day, and I don´t even go out every day. Odd how that´s working out, but I´m enjoying myself in other way. For instance, I´ve now spent a couple evening swimming in the ocean at night, among what I can only describe as firefly plankton, but what is called bioluminescents (sp?). These little otherwise invisible plankton light up like static electricity when agitated. So, when swimming in the ocean at night, one can see this warm little sparks lighting up in the churning waves, and even against your skin while moving in the water. There don´t seem to be a huge quantity of them here, but people tell me the ones here are big. The size of these little sparks can sometimes be about the size of a caper.

Also, in the past couple day, I went on my first real tour. Along with some of the folks staying at the Flutterby House, I went on a horseback riding tour. There were 5 of us and 2 guides, and for $25 we went on a ride through secondary jungle, then primary jungle, and back a nice waterfall, where we swam and explored before riding back. We saw monkeys, and large iguanas, and a poison dart frog, as well a the usual beauty of the jungle. A very nice trip, and afterwards I got to stick around and help take off saddles and wash the horses, while working on my spanish.

With the little bit of spanish I know, it´s always exciting when I put together a new sentence. So I was pretty happy when I explained to my non-English-speaking guide that, ¨Necessito tomer photographias para mi madre!¨ Who knows how good the grammar is on this one, but he seemed to understand. Anywho, that´s my way of saying, ¨Yeah, mum--I´m taking pictures!¨ I´d love to be sharing them, but I´m not succeeding in getting them from my camera onto the interweb. Hopefully, before I get back, but if not, I´ll get them on there in a few weeks all at once.

OK, back to swimming in the air. I´m pretty sure it´s time for me to eat fish somewhere, too... Mmmmm, pescado... Love yáll!