Murciélago

I guess it was a “fun” day. Started out pretty good as usual with breakfast and a warm dripping. After breakfast went by reception to get the key for my cabina room (5D). Went back to river station to start packing and cleaning up the room. Did that until about 11am when I spent an hour doing work in the lab.

Had lunch, and realized that nothing will be as good as the one lunch we had with arroz con camarones and platanos. Weak coffee today. After that moved all my stuff across the station to Cabina 5 in the midday heat. Got it all there in two trips, in between started a load of much-needed laundry.

Went over the bridge to reception to return my key from River Station. Upon arrival there I was informed that 5D was out and 2A was in, so I was like oh well…

Got over to Cabina 2 and went into 2A where there was definitely a “chick smell” in the air and girl stuff everywhere. Now this whole thing was starting to bother me. Left my stuff there and went across the bridge, again.

They were all like “ho ho ho, we had no idea there was anybody there” (well sort of the Spanish version of that). If they didn’t have a rain forest for people to study and poke, they would tank. After some bickering and general confusion, I was handed a key for 2C. Okay, this was going to be it I told myself.

At least this time I only had to move my stuff down the stairs. Now 2C is quite a ballin’ room, kind of like South C will be next year. I’m rooming with the Lab Manager, so we have a private bath, mini-fridge, coffee machine, and a sweet lounge couch thing. Better yet, it’s really close to both the lab and dining room. Dropped my stuff, switched the laundry, did emailing and work at the lab.

Got the laundry dried and folded and moved into the cabina. By this time, I was out of time so packed up my bag to go batting (as in catching bats, not the fun kind, hehe) with Amanda. Went out about 600m on the SAZ, a trail that starts on the side of the river of the dining hall. Found some interesting trails and such and picked a spot for a couple of nets.

Got the nets set up really well and I went back for dinner. Weirdest dinner ever. First of all, never try to make an American dish in a Latin American kitchen. If it doesn’t include rice & beans, it’s probably not worth it. So we had this attempt at lasagna tonight, somebody forgot the tomato and cheese. That pretty much resulted in a wet taquito. Tasty with hot sauce nonetheless. Cabbage concoction and onion soup to accompany.

Prepared a little dish for Amanda, strongly tempted to put a shred of beef in there (vegetarian, not that I have anything against that, I just wouldn’t be so inconsiderate of my body, it’s important). Hiked back out by 6:25pm to be there for the first bat. In total I think we caught about eight before the rain started.

Packed up the nets and poles and ropes and hiked back in the rain. Hiking in the rain is one of my favorite activities. Umbrella kicked the bucket, well almost; time to shop for a new one. That’s about it for now, trees in the morning. I’ve included a picture from batting tonight.

BP