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DAY 5 Yaaaaayyyyy!!

This is Aby, Hayes, Mary Kate, Jack, and Casey blogging to you straight from a picnic table in the middle of a Costa Rican rainforest. We just got done with a great dinner of beef and potatoes, beef and noodles, rice, black beans, rice, red beans, avocado, pineapple, watermelon, tomatoes, papaya, and some more rice. The beef was a nice addition!! Today we figured out that the “filtered bottled water” really is just the sink water that Vicky filters herself up every morning. Today we hiked to a waterfall and swimming hole in the middle of the forest. It was surreal. We all took turns diving under the raging waterfall, being sucked under water, and spit out into the current on the other side of the swimming hole. Jack and Hayes found out that if you drop a rock under water, it makes a very loud noise… Great discoveries in the world of science! Mary Kate and Casey decided to climb up the waterfall, thinking that it would be a good workout for soccer.

Last night, Hayes retrieved 4 coconuts. Between Hayes struggling to open them with his knife and Jack trying to rip the husk off with his bare hands, we finally got them open. After being told that the coconut water that we were drinking was old and rotten, we cut out the meat and tried to eat that. It’s not as good as you would think. It tastes like coconut liquor mixed with cat urine and vinegar. Luckily the coconuts finally got put to good use as a coconut bra for Hayes. Jack found leaves for his hula skirt.

UPDATES ON THE SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS:

One poison dart frog has died, but the rest are hopping happily and have been released. Taylor and Casey’s frog wrestled with another frog. It was the best reality TV available in Costa Rica, according to Javier (trust us, he knows reality TV. He works on Love in the Wild ;) ).

The grasshoppers are satisfactory, but Jim went rogue and flew up Hayes’s shorts… We aren’t sure what happened, but he still seems traumatized and refuses to talk about it. The “jungle-hopper”(we found him in the jungle not on the road) ate through his cage and killed the laughing gecko that we had adopted as a pet. We held a nice burial ceremony. Please pray for him. It would really mean a lot to us.

Currently we are watching Despicable Me… Casey seems to be enjoying it very much! Bugs are starting to be attracted to the computer screen, so we will continue blogging later otiose! ß Hayes’ version of adios….its not like I speak Spainesh!

SHOUTOUTS:

·      The parents of Abby, Elizabeth, and Anna! They all love you and miss you! They say that they wish they could blog, but they are too busy playing UNO and having fun in the rainforest. They want you to know that they are safe and healthy!!!!!

·      Viv and Darb – that is all Hayes has to say about that.

·      Everyone that is related to Casey and Jack. Great cousin bonding down here! We love you all!

BYE FROM THE COSTA RICAN RESEARCH STATION THAT WE TURNED INTO A MOVIE THEATRE!!!!!!!! YAAAY J GO TIGERS!