July 3

Sorry, I'm a couple of days behind so I'm going to make a couple of posts to correspond with the days that I SHOULD have posted them. =) On Saturday, we had breakfast in the little "glass house" in our hotel. It's an octagon-shaped house that is enclosed on the top and 3 sides by glass and is open on the fourth side. Audrey has been asking to eat breakfast there since we arrived, so we finally granted her wish on Saturday. A short video is below. After breakfast, we went on a hike. En route, we stopped at a roadside stand to buy some dresses for the girls and a necklace for me. It's owned by a Ngobe-Bugle Indian family who lives across the street. They have 55 chickens (all hens; they killed the rooster and ate it some time ago) and their house is a dirt floor. The man fed the chickens while we were there so that the girls could watch them in action (this family also had a 2-year old daughter who would smile shyly at our girls). Anyway, it was pretty wild and our girls loved it, especially seeing the baby chicks. During our hike, we had to walk back and forth across a stream/river about 5 times, sometimes with Iain carrying the girls across a downed tree, sometimes the girls traipsing through shallow parts in their boots. We had a picnic lunch on a rock and then came back down before the rain started pouring. Also, a pic of a random road sign that we thought was pretty funny!