We have been busy busy.
Our first event happened! It was perfect. All the attendees were wonderful people who contributed much. I did all the meals, with much help from my kitchen team:
We did well with buying about the right amount of food for the amount of people we expected... but only half our RSVPs showed up. Oops. Oh well, lots of food leftover to give away to people who live nearby.
And so with all the build up to the event, the event itself, and decompressing afterwards, life had been a bit hectic.
Back to normal! I will continue working on making the website great, and we will begin planning for the next few events.
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We went to explore the Malpais (bad lands) on Tuesday. The malpais is an area very close by with lots of volcanic rocks, and therefore a different sort of ecology then here in the forest. The goal is to map the area a bit so that it is more easily explorable by visitors to the lake area. The entire place is covered in windy trails, and there is a spirit who tries to make you walk around in circles and get lost (or so they say...). Had we not had a GPS... well, it is very smart to go there with a GPS or a map, or a *very* good sense of direction, which I do not possess. It was very pretty and different! And made for a nice hike. We discovered a grove of Eucalyptus trees, and tons of magueys everywhere and bromiliads hanging in the trees and other cool plants. I brought my camera and an extra battery, but no memory card, so no photos.
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Yesterday we had a couple of birder visitors. "Birders" is apparently the term for obsessive birdwatchers - they were very impressive! One woman knew the name of every single bird she saw, and she probably identified over 20 birds that she saw in the short time she was here. One was even a "life list" bird for her, which means she had never seen it before and will now add it to her (likely very long) list of birds she has sighted. Good news for this forest! It is a natural bird sanctuary, and probably a great place for birdwatchers to come visit. Kind of a fun hobby... I am not sure that I care about the names of all the birds, but it is cool to watch them through good binoculars. And easy, too. Most of the birds we saw were spotted from the terraza while we were eating dinner.
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And today we have another visitor coming up. And lots more around Earth Day, hopefully. Things begin to come together.
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