Decree, H. 1990 December 15 Rained much of the night and off and on through breakfast, although there are patches of blue sky too. River is once again brown and boiling, even tho yesterday it had receded and the downstream Losjan was covered w/ turtles (Rhinochelys). A carload of us went to Orlando Vargas' wedding to Maria Ester in la Iglesia de Puerto Viejo - the formalities of Catholicism sprinkled w/ local easy going. At various times during the x 30-45 minute ceremony, the priest left to turn up the microphone, a woman from the congregation went in the office behind the alter and turned on a light, children wandered here and there, an iguenda screamed from the tree next to an open side door, and so on. Then everyone filed across the street for food and drinks, the new bride and groom led off a waltz, and everyone seemed geared for an all day celebration. We came back to la Selva for a late lunch. At x 1630h as I walked up to the new lab I saw and heard a loud heavy rain storm come from the bridge a couple of hundred meters away - heard the roar of heavy rain approaching before any drops hit me! At ~1700h Jisa (a German exchange student) brought in a bromeliad she took 2.6m above ground on a tree in the Arboretum, and showed me a Leptodeira septentrionalis tucked in the base of one of the lowermost leaf axils (13.5g, 422x123mm) - snake was wet (all axils contained water) and