See how the clouds roll through the rain forest? We've been trying to get a photo of that for ages, but generally, by the time we realize the clouds are coming, we're in the 'fog'.
Paul commissioned Mr. Rodriquez to build a bed for our spare room - here the finished product is, when we went to pay for it at his shop:
Now, the only problem with having a queen sized bed built is getting it home. Luckily, Mr. Rodriquez knew Carlos, a taxi driver, whose taxi was a Toyota truck and judging by how quickly they got it loaded and strapped down, they've done this before:
Since our major problem was figuring out how to move our mattress to the new house, we asked the taxi driver if it was possible to drop by our rental house - he could do this in the same load! And he did .... the cost for moving both bed and mattress was $3.00.
Looks good in the guest room, doesn't it? Paul had Mr. Rodriguez build the bed 'Panama-style', which means that no box spring is needed. Believe it or not, it's very comfortable.
We're still waiting for Union Fermosa, the local electric company, to put in 1/2 kilometer of poles and install our service. The crew has optomistically built the thing we need for the electric company to hook up to. Don't ask me what it's called, but Carlos, the architect, designed it so we could use the bottom portion for our trash cans - they just haven't built the gates for it, yet, in these photos.
Union Fermosa says we'll have electricity in "15 days" ... we've heard other gringos say they were given the same time, yet one person waited 35 days, so I'm fairly certain they mean 15 'Panama days' ... Panama doesn't count time like anywhere else I've ever been - they only count Monday thru Friday (claim they count working days, but even if a place is open on Saturday, they don't count it as a work day). Furthermore, they do not count holidays. SO, when the electric company tells us "15 days" I scramble to find out if there are any holidays this month (not that I can tell), so I figure they really meant "3 weeks".
