October 16, 2010

Went to immigrations on Friday. I wore longer pants knowing shorts cannot be worn into any government or business office here, but the guy in front of me in line had a baseball cap on. He got stopped by the officials and had to remove it. And while we are on the topic of clothing, I saw a school uniform today that I would certainly have home-school my children rather than them having to wear it. These boys were wearing long pants that were BRIGHT ROYAL blue. Then, they had a knit shirt with a royal blue collar and royal blue ribbing on the sleeves.
I was taking a walk after school one day with my friend. Up ahead, we saw a car stopped, people were getting out of it and SOMETHING was on the ground in the middle of their lane. Fearing it might be something we didn’t want to get close to or maybe something they had hit, we held back for awhile. Then discovered it was a sloth! I guess frequently they will be “resting” in the middle of the road. These “nice” people stopped, grabbed a big branch from the edge of the jungle, came back and encouraged the sloth to grab onto it and then carried him back to the jungle. We got to watch it ALL!! It was just so cool. Then, we watched the sloth very slowly find a tree and begin to climb. How cool was THAT. We were close enough we could have touched it, but we have been warned not to. I guess they are full of bugs, up to 600 different kinds of bugs actually live on them and moths actually grow in their hair because they are just so slow. But oh my, how adorable their little faces are. In fact, I was so excited I told my Panamanian neighbors when I got home. However, they looked about as excited as I would be if someone in Cincinnati told me they saw a cat while on a walk.