Good morning from La Selva

Yesterday consisted of a million hours in the car. Trust me, I know, I'm a biologist. I'm very accurate about how these things go.

OK, perhaps it was only like 6 hours, but it FELT like a million.

Yesterday we stopped by a regular bridge overpass that straddles a river full of huge crocodiles. We got smoothies at the little stop on the other side. It was really odd how they took the interstate and made it an unsafe stop to view desperate crocks that would gladly eat a human limb or baby. There wasn't a guard rail or anything really, it was a highway. Just to make it more fun they added extremely overpriced tourist traps on the far side. There were hundreds of people there at this stupid place... baffling.

We stopped for lunch at a completely amazing place, the food was soooooo gooooood! I don't think anyone could go there and not get something delicious to eat. I personally had Fajitas with guacamole and refried beans, a corn tamale with sour craem, Flan, and rice pudding afterwards. DELICIOUS. I asked Faustio (our driver) if the food was typical of Cost Rica or Mexico. "Costa Rica! Food of mexico is not good." (apparantly Ticanos (Costa Ricans) do not like to be compared to Chicanos (Mexicans)) Oops. Who knew?

NOW at the next OTS station at *La Selva, we've seen frogs, and wild pigs that are only about a foot high, more leaf cutter ants than we could ask for, and a bunch of really odd looking birds. The biodiversity here is much higher, but there aren't any botanical gardens like at the Las Cruses area.