:-( to a couple of things today

What a contrast this morning was to yesterday!!  There wasn't a cloud in the sky, the sun was shining and everything looked so fresh!  We got up fairly early, because today is the day to return our rental car.  We had a quick breakfast of hot chocolate, banana and croissants and then had the final luxury of being able to get in a car to go wherever we wanted.  We drove downtown to several stores that had been closed yesterday, picked up a few things and then drove to the car rental place.  :-(

After returning the car, we set out on foot back to Boquete.  The rental place was really just on the outskirts of Boquete, so it wasn't a long walk at all to get back to town.  Once in town, we decided to walk to the grocery store to get some bananas.  On the way to the store, Guillermo walked over this metal grating that is placed over  little culverts that drain rainfall, his shoe caught on one end of the grating and he fell almost all the way down. :-( When we looked back at the grating, we couldn't believe how much it was sticking out of the ground.  Guillermo scraped up his knee just a little and that's all we saw at that point.

At the grocery store, we ended up buying a few more things, in addition to the bananas, and then we headed back to our house.  It's a little walk from downtown to our house, but not bad at all.  But we can see that maybe late mornings won't be the best time to be walking, because it was actually very hot (not to mention ALL uphill) on the last stretch of that walk.  By the time we got to our house, we were sweating pretty good.

Once at home, and Guillermo was taking off his shoes, he noticed that the metal grating had made a big gash in his shoe - which is where the edge of the grating caught him off guard and latched on to his shoe.  Those shoes are his good shoes, and now we need to see if there is someone in town who can fix that!!!  But at least the only thing that actually happened to Guillermo himself was that his knee was slightly skinned.  Not bad, so that's good at least.  Fortunately, we aren't too far from town, so we are thinking we may go in this late afternoon and see if we can find someone who fixes shoes.

One of the things I like about our house are the 3 huge windows in the living room - as you look out to the east, it seems like there are always major cloud formations over there.  Right now, as I look out, the clouds in the distance look like all billowy, dark and puffy so it COULD be raining over in the direction we need to go... But it looked that way yesterday when we were walking around in the late evening, and it never did rain.

This evening, we decided to walk back into town to take Guillermo's shoe to a shoe repair place.  Much nicer walk this evening.  No sun, and it was so cool.  The shoe should be ready on Saturday.