Nothing much has been happening. We saw an Iguana yesterday near Minerva's parents house.
Carlos lent me his bike so that I could go to the lab this morning. I have loads to do, so I thought that I'd go in this morning so that I'm not running around like a maniac next week trying to finish things off and suck all the information I need from Carlos!
He looked out the bike for me ages ago, but I've been too scared to use it because of the traffic! They drive a little scarily, not quite as suicidal as Armenians, but scary all the same! I couldn't put it off any longer so I set off this morning. In the cool of the morning when I was whizzing along (mostly on the pavements!) it was lovely. I was thinking to myself, why haven't I been cycling in everyday?? I got to uni with no problems, and managed to get another 5 samples sieved. When I left at 1pm, it was blazing hot sunshine and not a cloud to be seen. It was roasting! I haven't done anything that can be considered exercise in ages, and by the time I got back to Carlos' house, I was dripping with sweating and my face was bright red! That's why I haven't been cycling! But at least I managed it without getting knocked over. Although at one point I forgot which side of the road they drive on, looked behind me, saw nothing was coming and rode straight out in front of a car coming towards me. Oops!
Incidentally, Carlos met Mark Beaumont who is Cycling from Alaska to Patagonia making a documentary for BBC. He is writing a blog and sends his videos to the BBC who update his page. Carlos spoke to him about Volcan de Colima, and showed him some stuff at the observatory, and he filmed it for the documentary. I tried to find it on his page, but I can't view any of the videos here. This is the link to the Mexico part of his journey, so if you have some time and are interested, there should be something there about Colima:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/cyclingtheamericas/2009/09/
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