First weekend in Monteverde

This Sunday is Costa Rica´s national elections. This entails, not only that countless vans with loud speakers and music are parading up and down the neighborhood streets at all hours of the day and night, but also that no alcohol will be served from midnight last night until the election results are announced Sunday evening. I guess this became national policy not too long ago (within the past ten years), after riots ensued during the elections. Anyways, it was interesting at Bar Amigos last night. Around 11:30pm, the bartenders were pulling the bottles off the shelves and out from under the bar, both full and already opened, and selling them to bar patrons. Then at midnight, about 10 police officers came in to empty the bar and lock the area.
In other news, I tried to upload some photos onto the site. Not sure how you can access them, because I don´t see a link to ¨Photo Gallery¨ on this page, but I¨ll look into it more. Unfortunately, after loading five pictures, it claims I´ve exceeded my upload limit, but I´ll check into that too.
Tomorrow, I´m going hiking in San Luis about an hour and half north of here. It´s a four hour hike down to one of the bigger waterfalls in Costa Rica - I´m looking forward to it.
That´s all from here for now. Stay warm!

Kathryn