Today’s events were a bit more low-key, but still started early. Feeling badly about constantly hounding the kids to be on time for all the outings, we gave them the option of opting out of today’s activities. Both initially insisted they would skip the morning activity to sleep in, but at the last minute decided to pull it together and join us. This pattern was repeated for the afternoon activity as well, making us feel a little bit more confident that we hadn’t been torturing them. We visited the island of San Cristobal, one of the oldest and most mature islands and home to one of the few human settlements on the islands. Unlike most of the islands, there are natural reserves of fresh water here (due to the more mature landscape’s ability to retain the
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