Halloween

It's been a good while since I posted anything to our blog, so in an effort to catch up I'll go back to Halloween.....Yes, Halloween is celebrated here, not throughout CR but on the local agricultural research campus of CATIE, where expatriot Americans are in plenitude, and now even busloads of Tico kidsfrom Turrialba come to participate. All the kids and some of the adults were impressively costumed. Our base camp was Rachelle and Fabrice's house, where we ate fajitas and gabbed. We took Eva, the morpho butterfly, trick or treating to a few houses, but it was raining cats and dogs, so our motivation quickly dwindled to continue beyond a few neighboring houses. Asa, the mummy, on the other hand, joined the big kids in a whirlwind tour of a huge stretch of the campus. By the time he got back, his toilet paper bandages had dissolved and he was drenched but jolly with a bucket full of damp candy.

The Morpho and the Mummy

Festooned Friends (Note ketchup and mustard duo)



Soggy mummy with candy loot