No time for big captions here today, so if you want to know any more about the circumstances of one of the photos, email me and I'll give you the whole story if I can remember it....

This is the central park during the July Fiestas in my site. It was crowwwwded...

Here is how some of these photos were taken...flying past trees dripping with epiphytes with my head hanging out of a bus window.....

Another festivities shot. That colorful UFO is a mini hot air balloon they make out of paper and put a real little flaming torch in the bottom of. The guy on the far right is the vice mayor of the town and he was a little concenrned that the thing would land on a roof and set the whole city ablaze. Nothing happened though, and it eventually took off for parts unknown...

Taken from the same place as the last shot, this is the municipal dudes shooting off homemade fireworks on the roof of the town hall building. There's the vice mayor again with the beard...

Of course we do pot in the Peace Corps.... see, here's photographic evidence.