Day 5

-Hey, it's Fletcher from Dr. Boomba Squad, and Chris from the 4 Hormigos

Today was a loooong day, after breakfast, we drove over to this horse riding place and got the closest thing to a break in the past 4 days. It took some of the group a while to figure out their horses but once we were used to the horses it was very pleasant. Many of the views out over the volcano were breathtaking, but some of them were inhibited by the fact that the cloud cover stopped us from seeing anything very high up. After that, we had a delicious lunch of some veggie rice and fish. Some people went into town once we were done eating, and Alex decided to get a 3 liter bottle of orange juice. Later on our break ended and we went back to doing science. All of the groups ran into some issues and there was some changing around of the projects that we were doing, but everyone should end up in good shape to finish their experiment. For dinner, we went to a local restaurant and helped in making our own dinner. It was very tasty, and the pride of ownership made it that much tastier. Once we came back, some of us decided to work some more on our projects and some of us went to bed. We're looking forward to what we might see tomorrow!

Moth I caught in the classroom

Horse riding trip

Local restaurant

Here is the way we got divided into our work groups, and their group names and project topics. 

The Four Hormigos

Henry, Lia, Christo, Lily

Topic: trail pheromones

Attaboy

Alex, Colin, Alyssa, Aaron

Topic: colony age and bacterial diversity

M.O.T.H.

Jay, Camille, Charlie

Topic: fungus swap

Dr. Boomba Squad

Fletcher, Ashley, Katie, Alec

Topic: effect of damaging gas vents in colonies

-Chris and Fletcher