August 2, 2010

• Hareton's Photo Scavenger Hunt Round 4

      Both my friend Ryan and I took part in this fun scavenger hunt put together by Hareton.

  thanks Hareton for a fun adventure, enjoyed also by my kids, their cousins and friends

  1- arrow

  
  
   

  like many things in Costa Rica often they seem to make errors of judgement;
  things are often to my mind, too much or too little
  either completely lacking in information, or going over the top with it

  case in point: this arrow

  go straight or go right or go left,

  or else

  go straight a little further before turning right or left.

  2. crushed

   

  elias and lily interpret "crushing the spirit"

  3. duct tape

  

  available in MAXIBODEGA for just 970 colones a roll!

  4. hole

  Ryan already used the obvious one if you live in Costa Rica, especially in the wet season; a pothole.

  so I had to resort to a random backup ordinary trashy type of hole in the ground. this one looks more deliberate than most!

   

  5 - "your state"

   

  this is my state in more ways that one; can you guess what they are?

  why...

  yes, I AM sweet-smelling!

  yes, I AM mostly in a squidgy liquid-gell-plasma type of state contained in a somewhat more durable, more solid-y outer case type of state

  and YES, I AM from the Australian state of Victoria.
  (but not in any other way anything to do with "Victoria's Secret". for that matter, probably this cheapo-scent isn't either, so that's another similarity afterall )

  and YES, it was VERY difficult to find anything remotely Victoria-like.

  I was thinking Alajuela, my Costa Rican state-equivalent, but then I realised that is a province, and anyway, I didn't find anything for that.

  6. money

   

  nice collection of venerable heads

  7. contrast

   

  once again Lily and Elias perform their interpretation

  8. western

   

  i had taken this already when I came across a brillant window display in Zarcero today.
  which are close runners up
  
   

  9. nothing

   

  27% more of nothing is still nothing.

  10- vending machine

   

  well this is the nearest I could find. a kind of vending machine, aren't they?
  they sell the dream that you're going to score something really great for just 100 colones (20 cents)

  11- missing

   

  Lily's tooth!

  12 - four

   

  FOUR kids creating havoc in my house all weekend!
  from right to left; my Bela, cousin Caleb, my Lily and Bela's friend 'Kuki'

  13- old-fashioned

   

  the old stove at my mother-in-law's.
  Like many Costa Rican women, she has a gas stove inside in the real kitchen which she almost never uses,
  preferring to cook tradtional food on the traditional stove out in the back porch.

  it's corn season, and that is one of first 'chorreadas'   - or pure corn 'pancake's of the season

  to be eaten with sourcream and coffee! yum!

  14- laundry

  

  my favourite part; all that swishy soapy water =)

  15 - weapon

     

  Caleb's interpretation of some kind of future ray gun thing, designed to make enemies collapse into laughter.
  go Caleb!

  16 - the letter A

   

  Bela, Kuki and Caleb again

  17- puff

    

  Elias puffs on some flower petals. we were just going for the visual effect and trying to get some smoke coming out, he really did breathe in some of the smoke, the weird thing was it really smelled like tobaco!

  18 - red

   

  curiously enough, i really like the colour red and many of my most favourite objects are red - my old bag, my cell phone, my new computer.
  red red red

  19- palm

  

  three of these palms are blood related. which?
  one of these palms is not like the others, how so? and why?

  20 - water tower

  

  I know Ryan has featured this in his photo blog. luckily for me, since he got in first publishing his scavenger hunt, he didn't make a return visit to this, the most famous and attention grabbing of water towers in the local area.

  21- game

  

  "super banco"; the Costa Rican version of Monoploy.

  rather than Opportunity and treasure chests - or - whatever??? - It has FLORA and FAUNA cards,
  and you play to buy volcanoes, San Jose, Puntarenas, etc

  wonderful!

  22 - wrong

  

  had to return to that set of shots. it's wrong Elias enjoyed himself so much!

  23- ownership

  

  our friend Wilton the mechanic, and his land rover. this is the guy that made wil's car for him.
  these guy's cars are their fondest and best possessions, no contest.

  
  24 - label

  

  strange disc labelling an electrical post next to - actually inside the fence of - our house.
  probably those numbers mean something to someone.
  or else they wouldn't have put them there.

  would they?

  25 - toy

  

  our niece Maria Angelica with her favourite toy

  *

  and now our story is all done

  thanks Hareton! that was fun!

  be sure and go and check out the other efforts made by other participants here

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