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I have recovered from my fever, what ever it was. Russ went to fix the radio that went out when he had fixed the transmission at Isla Pedro Ganzalez. He wasn't prepared to deal with the transmission again just yet, but indeed did find it was not the coupling come loose again. When all was said and done...the transmission wasn't broken, he probably just didn't have it engaged fully and assumed it was broken again. This time with no proper tool to fix it. He broke that last time. I swear, if he would quit fixing things, more things would just start working on their own!
Anyways, We took a cab to the Canal Administration building to get the deposit back from the transit. The front dest acted as if no one had ever been there before to collect a check! Finally we made it past the front desk to the third floor where Lin Wolfe was sorry to tell us there would be a delay. Big surprise, but there had been an erroneous anchor charge and she couldn't write the check untill it was reversed. Could we come back Friday.
We climbed Ancon hill again. I had wanted to bring a banana for the monkeys but had no chance to buy one. Two big Toucans were in the trees near the benches.
A Kuna, Nataniel, was walking up with two backpacks. He paints feathers. I was tempted to buy one, but don't know about feather customs. And the painting had cruise ships, not sailboats in the canal.
On the way down we met a family who's daughter is in school here. From Colorado.
Passing a residence, a man got out of a car to go inside with a gas can and a banana. Of all the things in the world, I could want right now, and so I asked him. I asked if he could give me just one tiny little piece of his banana for the monkys. He happily gave me the whole thing. He said it was not his whole lunch, I checked!
Sure enough, at the bottom of the hill, the monkys woke up and crawled down to take tiny bits of banana from our hands and gobble them up. Our new friends came to try as well as a mother and small boy. I held the boy's hand while the girl lifted him up to feed the monkey. His eyes were so wide. The mother was so thrilled.
Taxi to Coca Cola restaurant and had the lentil soup and chicken fried rice. Loud. Checked out the Machetaza department store and taxi back. It was a full day.
The ssb weatherfax still eludes me. I can't seem to find a station that gives a fax page.
