Feeling a little lazy

So I was looking forward to showing you all some pictures today, but turns out this computer fits every type of memory card EXCEPT mine. So no pictures today. I'm also not particularly feeling like writing a ton about what I've been up to but figured I better write something so my parents know that I'm still alive.

The volcano tour last night was pretty cool, hotsprings also.It was actually a very nice night to be watching the volcano so I saw avalanches of lava (which from the distance I was wasn't very big but I still thought pretty impressive). The volcano actually erupted in 1968, destroying 2 whole villages. It's been active ever since (hence being able to see lava), but apparently is more likely to keep goign like this until it goes dormant again rather than erupt again any time soon. But volcanoes in general seem very poorly understood and are quite unpredictable. The hotsprings were a little unreal because we were in a normal river (think smaller than the river in Wentworth), but it was hot! Very weird sensation, but also pretty cool.

This morning I was up bright and early for my canyoning tour which I absolutely loved! I wish I could do it every day, but unfortunately (well... not really) there is way too much to see in this country to be able to do things twice (not to mention I can't really afford it :-P) But basically what it entailed was making our way down a small river for about 2 hours. So much of it was just trekking through the water and sometimes jumping into small pools, but there were 5 places that we had to actually rappel... so much fun! 3 of them were small and sort of like climbing down but while attached to a rope, whereas there were 2 really big ones (120ft and 200ft long) where you basically went straight down, except when the guides swung you into the waterfall to make sure you got wet. I feel like it's pretty hard to describe, but it was awesomely fun.

Anyways, I don't really have any plans for this afternoon or this evening. I was thinking about making to a local swimming hole, but there are lots of locals there, so I think if I went on my own I'm likely to get harrassed quite a bit... plus I just had a shower and it's not very often that I feel clean and dry, so I think I'm going to try to keep it this way for a while. Tomorrow morning I'm hiking up Cerro Chato (the dormant part of the volcano where there's a lake that you can swim in in the crater!) and then off to Monteverde by Jeep-Boat-Jeep in the afternoon.

That's all for now! Hope you all had a great weekend!
Kaila