This is Kari, Lee´s sister, holding the cutest little baby sloth in the world. She lives at the hotel beside the one we stayed at in El Valle. She is about 2 months old and they take her out of her cage to hold her every day so she will have contact with other animals. That helps her stay healthy. We were coming back from the market and we saw a guy holding her so we just asked if we could hold her too. Oh, and the Spanish for sloth, mono perezoso, literally translates to lazy monkey. I thought that was pretty funny for a while but, if you think about it, us calling them sloths is kind of funny too.
Our hotel had some interesting pets too but we did not hold them. They had a Tucan and some golden frogs.
Just a side note while I am waiting for the picture to load... Lee and I will have spent a total of over 8 hours each on the computer today by the time we are finished. I never would have imagined that we would use computers so much in the Peace Corps, but we do a lot of paper work. We are helping with the training of the new group of volunteers in a couple of weeks so we worked on that for a while. We did thank-you letters to agency members who came out to our community. Lee worked on the cover for an educational video, using inadequate software. I have spent hours on work-related e-mails. I have not even sent one personal e-mail today. Sorry to everyone waiting for responses... And after a cummulative effort of about 2 hours I will have completed one new post for the blog if/when this picture finishes loading. I really do not mind the work, even the quarterly reports we have to do, which are a little tedious at times. I actually love the work. What is so frustrating is using computers that may or may not have the software you need and may or may not have issues so that it may or may not take you 2 hours to finish a post that should take about 5 minutes. Okay, I am finished venting and the picture is finished loading. Sorry about that; I try to keep this fun and informative but I slipped up with a little rant. Hopefully I will be able to try this again tomorrow. I have lots more awesome pictures from Lee´s family´s trip down here to visit us and if they load fast enough tomorrow I will not have time for any more rants...
3 comments:
So good to finally see a new post. Sorry about the trouble with the computer. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day. Love, Pinkie :)
It is good hearing from you in any form of message - except emergencies. Stay healthy and well. Glad you had a good visit with family. Hope you can come home again soon. Those little ones are getting big! Have a good weekend and keep on "computing". Can hardly wait for the pictures. Will be sure to see Carolyn's album when I get to AL - unless she want to come here - hint, hint. Love, Nancy and John and Rocky
kari brought the album when she came. i enjoyed looking at it!!! that stinks about the computers!!! jon is visiting right now and last night, we were each sitting around with a laptop in our laps. it was funny! ...but maybe not to you so forget i said anything. love ya!!
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