Travels!

I have safely, though not entirely sound, returned from my field trip to the Rebio (Reserva Biologica) Guaribas. During the 36 hour bus ride home though, I also managed to get sick and have spent half of this week recovering. Yay! Marshall at least has a clean bill of health, and is almost done with his stressful and previously looming Teacher Work Sample. Now it's just me with the huge to-do list, and we still are lacking on final travel plans still-- yikes!

I WILL post pictures pretty soon, particularly from Guaribas, because we found a gorgeous translucent red snake that became my best friend and photo shoot model (before he/she become a permanent member of the CHUNB collection). However, there is a picture of me (the tiny person in the blue hat) setting up pit falls (traps for lizards, though scorpions and ridiculously huge ants, spiders, etc fall in them too) on the Brazilian goverment's website: www.icmbio.gov.br The only problem is that it is not a direct link and it's obviously in Portuguese. So. . .. choose Mais noticias in the middle of the page, after which it is necessary to click on 08/10/20008 - Cientistas da UnB e da UFPB inauguram pesquisas na Rebio Guaribas. I'm not sure how long their news articles stay online, but hopefully it will stick around for a bit longer!