Pictures!

Just a quick update to let you know I've made a Picasa album to put some of our trip pictures in. Right now, it just has pictures from La Fortuna, Arenal volcano, and Monteverde cloud forest, but we'll keep adding to it.
The album is available here: http://picasaweb.google.com/margaretbyrne2

Today we took a bus trip to the town of Catarina, which was beautiful, cute, and great. One of our best days so far, I'd say. A little moto-taxi took us to "El Mirador," which is where you can look out on a crater lake in the middle of an old volcano. We walked around town and bought some presents for some people...the area is famous for its handmade pottery and pretty things. We stopped in to one artist's studio, and his wife showed us these beautiful plates she was painting. They use large handmade platters that have been whitewashed (or something), and her husband draws these picasso-esque people, and cats, and fish, and guitars, and then she and her son fill them in with beautiful bright colors. We had already spent all of our money by the time we got there, but -DAD- I got her email address, because I think you'd love the pieces.

We got back in town to make dinner and learn that water had been shut off for the day in the whole entire city for some reason, so we're happy we were out having lots of fun. Tomorrow the plan is to go to Lake Apoyo, another beautiful spot where we can swim and hike, and then on Saturday we're headed back in to Costa Rica!