Hot water

If you turn on the hot water without 'warming up the pipes', the entire apartment produces a perfect sinusoidal 'E' note. It's deafening.

However, on the subject of sounds...
There are five infants in the green group, who spend most of their days either playing in the trees or screaming in terror when they realize we're anywhere near them. While they perform the most amazing acrobatics in the trees, and can climb up anything with the greatest of ease, they are not yet adept at returning to the earth's surface. Their current method is simply to drop from the lowest branch, which is often at least 10 feet off the ground.
"Phoomp".
It's my new favorite thing.


It's been a frustrating past couple of days with the group. Yesterday we searched for eight hours and then after we had given up, drove past them on our way home.

Today we woke up extra early to catch them before they had moved, but it turns out they didn't really feel like traveling more than 100 meters from where they had slept the previous night, as it was cold and rainy all day.

We also locked the keys in the car, but were able to break back in using a piece of wire scavenged from an abandoned Berber house near the road. So that was fun.

Also, with all this rain I've realized that neither my rain jacket nor my hiking boots are quite as water resistant as I had hoped. Spending another 8 - 10 hours soaked to the bone tomorrow is not something I'm looking forward to, but hopefully I can shop around this weekend for replacements.