This photo is from 2 weeks ago, when Alex and I participated in the SILAIS Clinic's vaccination journey. We worked with a team of about 25 volunteer doctors and nurses from the Carazo area, travelling around to all the rural communities and schools to administer vaccines like heb-b, tetanus and polio to the local kids and their families. It's great to see an effort like this, as its almost impossible for these people to travel that long distance from their remote farms to the city clinics to have their children vaccinated. It's really tough and tiring work, sometimes involving going from farm to farm, house to house, trying to track everyone down in each community. But, in the end, its all worth it, when you know that preventable illnesses are actually being prevented.

Alex's last party night at the newly opened "Baby Rock Sports Bar"... Formerly known as "La Akadamia, con 'K' de Karaoke", as you can see in the old sign behind us. My guess is that they're leaving it up because it's so classicly rediculous, and brings great joy and amusement to all.

This horn-spike tree is found in dry tropical climates, like that of Rancho Guadaloupe on the road to La Boquita. So many species of plants in these areas are covered in protective armour, usually in the form of sharp and in some cases (although not this one, obviously) practiaclly invisible spines.