Looong Day

In the last 36 hours, I've only slept 2. I worked the morning shift yesterday, relaxed in the afternoon, and then we went out on the town. Renata, our manager of sorts, decided to show us a night out. We started off going to this place called the Farinia, which is an alleyway with numerous stalls selling mostly wine, cheese, salami, and olives. It's a pretty cool outdoor place, and you can sit at some tables and drink lots of wine. We started off with a cheese/olives/salami platter, empenadas, and a couple of bottles of wine. Then we went to an outdoor market area and hung out with some hippies. Usually there are many stalls with various crafts but the night was bitterly cold so the place was pretty empty. Then we went to a hostel where a friend of Renata's works and he made us Caipirinias, some Brazilian drink, which were pretty good. Then we went to the dance club. I forgot how much I like to dance crazilly to techno sometimes. I have to give a shout out to my techno dance party ladies because I thought of you a lot, especially during some boom boom pow and satisfaction. I also made my friend try to high-five me during a strobe like session--it's insane. When I went to the bathroom in the corner I found out that there was an entirely other dance floor with djs. When I went to the bathroom in that room, I found yet another huge dance floor! This place was endless. All of a sudden it was 4 am, I still have very little idea of how it got to be so late, or early, depending how you see it. We were pretty tired, but decided that we would just have to stay out until it was time to go to work. We finally left the club at around 5am, got some hamburgers and hot dogs, and headed back to the park, where everyone else passed out, but Dan and I had to get up for work in about half an hour. I took a cat nap in one of the hammocks while he stayed awake to make sure we got up and out. Since I've been staying at Annie's house, I didn't have any other clothes with me so I had to go out into the field all day in the jeans and a tshirt I went out in last night. I was a pretty sorry sight. The two of us went out into the field and followed monkeys for the next six hours on no sleep at all. Luckily the monkeys were moving a lot so we didn't really have time to sit and let our bodies feel exhausted. When we finally did towards the end of our shift, it was very hard to get up. I got back in a daze, made some food and took a much needed nap. Dan and I are pretty much champs. So today has been a pretty long two days for me. On the bright side, I've seen plenty of toucans lately. There were about 7 of them just chilling in a tree by the side of the road yesterday and today. Tomorrow is my day off again, and the forecast looks better than my last one so I'm definitely going to trot over to the Cataratas! Now I'm going to rest.