Our Trusty Steed

Well, it turns out it's been quite handy to have a car here in Monteverde. First of all, we live far away and up a steep hill. But that's relative. Everything here is hilly. By far away I just mean it's a 10 minute drive instead of a 45 minute walk. We have been happy to have the car recently, for a few reasons. Artie is outside right now, helping to pull a friend's car back onto the road. It's pouring rain and quite bleak outside. The boys went to help, or observe. Our car is 4WD and hopefully Artie can pull Umberto's car back up!
We took a carload+, 10 people total on a drive this morning to the trail head so that we could hike to a beautiful waterfall. Luckily, traffic laws are either unknown or not enforced.
Yesterday we had another exciting adventure involving the car. Artie and I had just walked back from taking the boys to the bus stop, a pleasant, early morning 20 minute walk. Our landlord knocked on the door and told us that Alfredo, the man who cuts the "grass" had fallen and cut himself on his machete sharpening tool. (There another story here too, but anyway.) Artie jumped in the car with Fred and Alfredo and drove to the clinica.
We try not to rely on the car too much but as you can see it has come in pretty handy. Here's a little photo of our trusty steed, as we are loading our fresh food from the feria, or Farmer's Market.