Today, except for early in the morning, was a very rainy day!!!  We hung around the house in the morning, halfway hoping the plumber would show up, but he never did.  Turns out today is ALSO another holiday in Panama.  The first week of November is full of holidays for Panama!!  So, by the time we eventually headed into town, it started raining shortly after that.  We appreciated all day long that we had a car, but that is coming to an end tomorrow - we return the car tomorrow morning.
We had lunch at the Bistro Boquete again, I had some delicious mini-hamburgers and Guillermo had a soup that he declared was delicious!!  His kind of soup, he said.  While we were eating, that's when it started raining.  We had planned on going to some stores after eating, but most of them were closed for the holiday.  But we did run across an interesting looking restaurant.  We were just walking down the main street, when we passed some steps that seemed to go up to a second floor.  On the wall by the steps, we saw a sign for german cooking so we decided to go up and check it out.  It looked very nice up there and smelled delicious, so we decided to come back another day and try the place out.

Back in the car, we drove out again to the Pasteleria Alemana and bought more pastries and more empanadas.  It was raining really hard when we were there.  Back in town, we did some more grocery shopping and that was our last running around with the car!!!

In the late afternoon, we took a walk again around the valley.  We walked almost the entire place.  It was such a pleasant walk - humid, but nice and cool.  The clouds were low on the hills, so it looked like it was going to rain, but it never did.  We passed 3 nice waterfalls, saw a few birds (but nothing too exciting) and we also saw a solitary coati.  As we walked around, we realized we really should have brought along our cameras, so the next time we go for a walk, we'll take pictures of how it looks around the valley.

Here are some pictures of the outside of the house we are living in:

Looking toward our living room and the carport.

The houses on this block are duplexes, and fortunately we are in one that is on the end.

Tomorrow we will try to take pictures from across the valley, to see how the house looks from way over there.