Life gets complicated, duties pile up and the best intentions get filed which is exactly the case with my BLOG. I haven't been paying it too much attention of late and that's why nothing new has appeared. Such is life in the tropics, as my husband would say.

It appears that the hot weather has arrived. All week the sky has been overcast, the humidity level up and the air-conditioners turned back on. The mornings have lost their fresh snap and the afternoons are just plain hot! Once again we enter the beginning of the rainy season and although it's not my fave time of year, the flora and fauna will no doubt benefit from this humidity. We can expect torrential downpours to begin in about one more month and it will pretty much rain every afternoon until November. Some residents claim they love the rainy season because of the spectacular lightening shows and the new layer of green on everything that grows. The rivers turn chocolaty from debris, the streets become waterfalls and the dank smell of soil fills the air. There are also almost no tourists which means the beaches aren't as crowded, you can get good deals on tours, and there are no line-ups at the grocery store so I guess there are a number of upsides to the "low" season.