Friday continued.
On our way home from Puriscal four people from University for Peace got on heading for Ranch Mastatal, to hang out for the weekend. We knew 2 of the girls from a past group. On the way home, though, Sineads foot began to swell and get painful. A small cut had become quickly infected. When we got back she got a home remedy of salt water and local plants that helped immediately. Dinner was abnormally late which made some people upset, including Joey. We have a couple of slacker volunteers at the moment who had the U Peace people help with dinner but didn´t even cook themselves. All the dishes in the kitchen were used, not an easy task. Impressive under any other circumstances. We had a bonfire planned for later that night because it was a fool moon. A few volunteers from a local farm came to enjoy the festivities. It was amazing the Ranch had doubled in size over a day.
Saturday the 27th
The two slacker volunteers and the U Peace students were planning an early hike up to Leo´s. Greg had other plans. Saturday is a work day and the U Peace students were staying as volunteers and needed to earn their stay, so he had them shell beans for most of the morning. Sinead ordered produce as usual. Her foot was still swollen so Lilly( an awesome local women who works at the ranch) gathered some local herbs and made a foot tea. It was a miracle cure, not only did it make her foot numb for most of the day the infection was completely gone. Before Lunch the U Peace and some volunteers decided to go on the hike leaving us and greg at the ranch, even though Joey said he was going. So joey hoped on the Ranch bike and caught up with them at the Leo´s House after he helped me with lunch. Joey saw monkeys and Pico kill a strange rain forest rodent. It was a mellow day until the sun went down and beer pong got started. After multiple games we decided to go to the pulp, which was closed unusually early. Everyone in town partied a little to hard Friday night, so no one was out.
Sunday the 28th
Before the group left we all decided to walk to Iguana Chocolate for a tour. Iguana Chocolate is an organic Cocoa farm 1km away. Very interesting place, really small. Still make everything out of their kitchen. They also have a bio-digester installed by a renewable energy foundation at the ranch. The gas they use for cooking is methane, it comes from their Pig´s waste and water in a huge inflatable bag. The Ranch is thinking about making a human bio-digester out of the flush toilet in the main house. After the U Peace group left it was movie time. 40 Year old Virgin.
