Wait, what?

So I was just talking about presents.

This is the proverbial icing on the cake. Fitting because I'm talking about birthdays. Or perhaps then, this is really the whole cake. So the cake is decorated with maní garipiñado. Wait, what? I'm OK with it though.

Anyway: the cake.

I have a camera!!

Wait, what? My mom got here and had an extra gift bag for me, besides the backpack I had asked for. It was like 10 p.m. and we were going to go to the bus to Panamá, so I waited to open it. But she made me. Welcome into the world a new Nikon point-and-shoot, beautifully portable, 12.1 megapixels, memory card and case. 

"Wait," she said. "You have to see the card."

So, in the back seat of our tiny car filled with my familia tica and my mom and I opened the card. And it was a cat card, and it was signed by, like, twenty people from T6. And apparently not even everyone signed it. T6, my old home, my "residents" or what-have-you, my best friends last year, bought me a camera. 

I cried even harder than I do during the resurrection stone scene of the Deathly Hallows, which I watched again on TicaBus. Oh my goodness. I have no words. Best present of my life. I love you friends. I love the camera. It is absolutely wonderful. I dedicate every single future blog post to you. 

O sea, I have pictures again!! From Panamá and Independence Day today! It was great, I will tell you all about it later!

Also my mom is here! It is the best! Hi mom!

So so so so so much love from the tropics,

Bailey