Creepy crawlies

Not a lot of time to post, and some blog entries I have in my head may have to wait until we return home.  We left our rental house in Manuel Antonio on Tuesday, found a fabulous little bed and breakfast for Tuesday night in San Ramon.  Arrived midday Wednesday in La Fortuna, close to the Arenal volcano.  Went ziplining this morning and lived to tell about it.  I promise to post a more in-depth account soon!  With pictures!

As a side note, and I'm sure this is obvious to most, but there are lots of bugs in Costa Rica.  I know what you're thinking; duh, my friend, it's mostly jungle.  Well, sure, but it's been so long since I've traveled in a jungle-y area, I'd forgotten about how those bugs are so...well...invasive.  Costa Ricans don't have much use for screens, doors are left wide open to encourage the breeze, so there are spiders and beetles and mosquitoes and other little flying creatures and big ants and small ants and three or four million different kinds of moths and sand fleas and gnats and caterpillars and centipedes....well, you get the picture.  They're in the sink, in the shower, in your bed, crawling over your feet, floating in your drink.  We all look like we have chicken pox on our legs from the bug bites; my friend Heidi calls it "mosquito pox."  I'm frankly too overwhelmed to be grossed out.  They are, after all, part of the grand ecosystem.

And then, in the middle of the night, I've been hearing some very weird chirping noise, kind of like a small bird, coming from the corner of our bedroom.  Upon closer inspection, I've found a strange little creature moving across the wall at lightning speed.  A cute little gecko.  And I actually saw one eating a mosquito!  Yay for geckos!

I'd write more in this post, but I need my hands to scratch my itchy legs....