Apparently IE crashes if you open more then four tabs, or you sign into gaiaonline for extended peeriods of time (5 minutes). Oops. Anyways, 20 more minutes of internet according to the sheet of paper I got yesterday.
Today I saw an active volcano! Unfortunately (at least unfortunately for everyone else), I'm still alive and kicking. We were somewhere called Paos, where there is the cloud forest, or forest that exists at high altitudes. The name sounds so pretty, reminds me of castles in the sky or some equally romantic idea. The weather here actually is pretty cold, the fog rolled in while we were looking at the volcano crater, and I went back to the visitor's center to huddle with other unprepared tourists.
I bought some postcards, wrote some and didn't see much wildlife. The bus ride up and down the mountain was really killing my stomach, so I took some motion sickness pills. A side effect of these pills is drowsiness, so I kind of walked around half asleep for the rest of the afternoon. We visited a museum and I passed out at the wrong moment. So I ended up banging my head against this metal grille on the door. Needless to say, I sat down the rest of the time and tried to stay awake using other methods. Ow. I think a hug bruise is forming on the side of my head, but I don't feel like checking a mirror.
Anyways, I managed to pick up a little history before I almost killed myself. Turns out that the Spanish conquistadors (sp?) wiped out most of the indigenous peoples in Costa Rica with smallpox, so other then what they can glean from archaelogical digs, the people here really know very little about the ancestors. But what they do know is facinating. For some reason, these people made huge spheres out of volcanic rock. No one knows why or exactly how they did this, but I saw one today which was more then 5 feet in diameter. These spheres are almost perfectly round, and seem to serve no practical purpose, which makes their existence all the more fascinating.
In other news, I'm not sure when I'll have internet next. I mean the next hotel might have internet, and it might not. It probably won't kill me to be without internet for 8 days..right? Anyways, if I haven't gotten your address by now, you probably aren't going to get a postcard D: Duuude, why isn't everyone online all the time so I can get addresses?!
So I've been thinking about people back home (haha that sounds so funny), and I don't think I know even 50% of whats going on. I mean there is no reason to be worried, but I do it anyways. I like to think that everything is happy, but I know its not that way. I just don't know how to broach the subject and would you look at that I have 4 minutes left maybe I should pay attention to Cindy/people instead of ranting.