Visitors

Sarah: This has been a week of visitors. Last weekend Dr. John Cossel arrived with his wife, Ronda, and 3 kids. They are going to be here for the entire month of June. John is a herpetologist and has been hiking on the trails in search of all amphibians and reptiles. So far he has found a number of frogs, tadpoles, and a salamander—which is quite rare. Soon he’ll be heading down past the waterfall, to a lower elevation, and the possibility of finding snakes.

We also had a friend, Nicola, who we worked with at Mission Springs come visit with two of her friends from med school. They are traveling around Costa Rica for a few weeks, and decided to spend a few days hanging out with us. We had fun hiking around with them, and playing games while it was raining.

David has continued to work on landscaping around QERC and watching the quetzals fly across our lawn, and this week I have been frantically scrapbooking, in hopes of finishing this entire year’s book so any of you who are interested in seeing an organized scrapbook of our first year in Costa Rica, it will be ready for you.

Tomorrow I am heading into the city to stay for the week. I’ll be hooking up with friends from Orphanos Foundation, the organization through whom I traveled to Brasil and Mexico. They are in Costa Rica giving an orientation to this summer’s SOSers (Summer Of Service), and I am able to be with them for the majority of the week. I am thrilled for the opportunity and am excited to see some more friends.