And I'm far, far away.

Yesterday morning, I felt a bit bunged up. I put the Costa Rican equivalent of Vicks VapoRub on the balls of my feet, put on my shoes and socks, and it cleared right up. An odd tip from Marc the Medic, but there you go.

I was told that I wouldn't be allowed to do any more driving. Disappointing but not surprising, but it's not like getting told I'm now in N-Dubz or that I'm now a journalist for the Daily Mail. Let's keep some perspective here.

We were sent off on a small road trip to a couple of sights near Turrialba all by our lonesome, in two Land Rover Defenders. It pissed rain. First place we had to visit was the Guayabo National Monument, which I could tell you about, but why bother when they have a website? If the roads needed to get there are representative of the roads needed to get to projects, I'm pretty happy not driving, and not being responsible for people's safety, and looking out the window taking in as much of the magnificent scenery as possible. The site had a touch of the Jurassic Park about it.

It also had some ants working super-hard, doing their ant thing.


And it had a pretty badass archaeological site.

Our second thing to find was a waterfall with no name and no road signs, with the concluding comments of the directions we received going something along the lines of 'There's no point in calling us if you get lost. Everything looks the same so we won't be able to tell where you are.' Challenge accepted.

With some wrong turns, scouting walks, interrogating locals, constant communication, and a quick break for myself and Marc the Medic to get to know each other better...

I'll be disappointed if he doesn't call me. Picture courtesy of Rich.

...we finally found a waterfall. It was a very pretty waterfall.

It had ginger growing next to it. It looks nothing like what I get in the supermarket.

And apparently these are bananas?

Pink and furry? Definitely not EU regulation bananas.

Somebody decided to try a path in the opposite direction, where we found the waterfall and its beautiful surroundings, which were straight out of Jurassic Park.

Picture courtesy of Rich.

We obviously became overwhelmed by the beauty of our surroundings and the excitement of being let out by ourselves, because the pool at the bottom of the waterfall somehow became full of Advance Team!

Picture courtesy of Lucy.

And here I am, stood by a waterfall, in my boxers, looking very pleased with myself.

Picture courtesy of Tess.

I won't pretend I didn't feel like a skank, coming home with my underwear in my pocket.

It was a fun day. I liked going through the forest to find the waterfall. It felt like an exploration, exactly what I'm here for in many senses of the word. It was a great team bonding experience. Everybody played some role in the excursion and there was much banter. It was much needed by us all.

Today has been much more restrained. I tried to give a tutorial about blogging this morning, so people can still update the corporate blog if I'm out on project. Unfortunately, explaining such a thing is boring as hell, I hate teaching stuff, and the website was broken and wouldn't save what I'd done, when I'm already behind on my blogging. On a positive note, I finally had time to finish the tasks set for this week in terms of my role. Yay!