7/23

Team MOTH

Team Attaboy

Team 4 Hormigos

Team Boomba Squad

Hey Minnesota,
     Today we finished up our projects, did our final presentations, and went on a celebratory hike. All of the presentations were excellent, even though they were very different from the original plans. Sadly, we had to say goodbye to Pinto and Ibrahim, who helped us envision and create our projects.

The hike started out as sunny and hot, but quickly devolved into a rainstorm. During the downpour, we saw a sloth up in a tree (but we really just got to see her back or a lot of rain). We aborted mission on the hike, after we got our boots soaked in a swollen creek, and went back to Finca La Anita to shower and dry off.  The locals asked for ideas of what to name the hike and Audrey came up with  "Slippery Mud River Trail" and "Sticky Boot Sucker Trail".

Before dinner we saw 2 toucans in a tree outside of where we eat.  After dinner Jay got to drink a cup of coffee which he made himself.  He spent the week working on it - he picked the beans, fermented them, shelled them, roasted them and ground them!

Tomorrow we leave for our next research site at 8:30am.  Only two more days left!
-Charlie and Alec

The trail before the rainstorm.