Hello,Here we are in the middle of the rainyiest of the rainy seasons. Wow, it rained almost every day in August and still going strong for September. Although lots of storms have gone by none so far has done any damage besides the obvious disaster of the road. I don't even want to go into it!! And the Mold! Woah!!
Of course there are lots of benifits to the rain. One is the plants go over the top, literally, the bougamvilla on both sides of the hotel are over the roof. I can't imagine how many gardeners we would have to have if the hotel were open in the summer just to keep up with it all. No dust is another big benifit, jeez i hate that stuff! And the animal and bug life is constantly entertaining. Many of you know that the kitchen at our house is outside. Ideal for the tropics where it never gets cold, but at night with the lights attracting every bug from miles around it's like cooking in the Amazon, massive beetles, mantisis, moths the size of my hand, all flying around my head at the same time! Yikes! Very interesting. August of course loves it and has a new "friend" everyday.
Some of the more pictuesque additions are the millions of butterflys like the one above. This one in in the flowers infront of the restaurant. I tried to take a long shot cuz there were sooooo many but they just blended in (as they are supposed to do no doubt). There are stripey ones, grean and black Monarch look alikes, orange, yellow, solid white huge ones and ones that "snap" when they flap thier wings. I got to look that one up! So all in all everything is going well.
We will start preparing the hotel to open next week, no big changes this summer. Will write more later,
