Happy Costa Rican independance day everyone (coincidentally mexicos too)! This is sweetly celebrated in town by hundreds of kids dressed in traditional flag colored dresses, carrying intricately crafted lanterns, looping all around town. The lanterns are In conmemoration of one hero who 190 years ago today, in a small town near the capital, knocked door to door with her lantern/ torch uniting everyone to claim their independance the following morning.
Everyone and their grandmother was out. CCC was invited to view the procession; so weplayfully decided to join in the crafts, being the only 10 childless adults walking around town with milk carton lanterns. Fun times. I particularily enjoy recognizing faces around town; even tho im the obvious foreigner, i feel like im getting this bbc exclusive in person.
New story:
Someone else who was out and about theprevious night, getting ready for the festivities, on the beach 2 meters away from my early pm patrollers, was a 3 meter crocodile. This is not normal. River/canals: crocodiles. Ocean: hammerheads. Beach: jaguars, poachers, feisty toursits and mosquitoes. These are our concerns according to location. Now this log looking creature is coming over to our patrols. Oh man! Apparently, Emma and Carolyn were patrolling as usual in mid conversation when the third patroller, Bernardo (also a new addition, nestors replacement), said "alto, paren q hay cocodrilo!" emma and carolyn chuckle, as he is new and is fogged and confused... "no no, its just a logadile... No crocs on this side". As they get closer, they see it come alive! Feeling outnumbered the croc agressively kabooses its way back to the ocean, and from what i hear he even did a little jesus walk-on-water move too (must be related to the vasilisk). Swooosh. And might i add: phew!
What freaks me out with this story, is that this took place in probably the best lit patrolling night in the history of CCC and still we wldve noramlly just climbed over this sharp toothed log. Unrecognizable i am being told. What r we supposed to do on the dark nights? I forsee a bunch of paranoid patrolees taking the long way around the beach the next couple days. Hehe
Proceed w caution. We're being told to run in zig zag if we are ever being chased by one, however i dont see how that wld help... Clumsy chasing clumsy. Haha later that night i took over 12-4am, and i was able to identify more than 5 croc looking logs. I also found the intruder's dinosaur sized tracks. Hahaha ummm :/ Nervous laughter.
PS i wldve given anything to see carolyn's crocodile dance.
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