The "bail out"!!!

The bail out of water down here in Costa Rica, that is! This month, October, is supposed to be the rainest month of the rainy season; that's what we've been told anyways. Things got a little scary around here this afternoon when Kyle and I stepped out our front door and realized that the good-sized ditch across the road from our driveway was up over the embankment and flooding our neighbor's house. We quickly began moving things to higher ground off our front porch (our shoes) and in our front room, the livingroom. I ran down the road and got Ken at the camp and we started helping our neighbor, Norberto. It was pretty messy, but we had fun working away with the family to clean the home. His sister, Isa, is our camp cook and Isa's husband, Koki, is the camp groundskeeper, who came with Ken when I found him at the camp. We also got an urgent phone call from Marjorie, our Spanish teacher, asking us to drive to town, Orosi, and help her remove water from her home as well. This week the team is working around the rains trying to paint the camp swimming pool that we drained over the weekend. We've got a rental group coming in this weekend and we hope to have it back up and running by then. Yikes! I've got cabins to clean tomorrow!