Okay, so after we high tailed it out of Parisminas, we looked for somewhere to eat breakfast. I don't remember what town we stopped in, but I can't forget who we met after breakfast. Right outside the soda, sitting there on a plant we encountered, The Grasshopper, the biggest grasshopper I have ever seen. At first I thought it was fake, like a toy or a lawn ornament or something, except that it was so detailed, I knew that no one in Costa Rica would leave a trinket like that sitting outside because it would get stolen. Karina was of course very excited about our new little friend, and we decided it ought to join our road trip ...if we could get it off the leaf it firmly clung to! Fortunately we had an empty food tupper which became it's temporary home during the drive.
The Grasshopper was an integral part of this trip. You could basically define the trip in 2 parts. Before The Grasshopper, and After The Grasshopper. Haha :)
She was really quit beautiful too.
Thus Karina began plotting how to get this little specimen home with her. Unfortunately that mean it had to be dead, so into the freezer it went. The final specimen turned out beautiful, but I have to say she was quite prettier alive.
We discussed different ideas for smuggling the thing, such as stuffing it in her suitcase, putting it on a string and wearing it as a necklace. Passing it off as a "toy". It probably would have been far too risky. But then magical things started happening and in the few days she was there, Karina actually found this licensed bug collector guy who was able to expedite a drying/pinning/framing for her and she was able to bring it home legally, yay! I will have to ask her for a pic of it pinned and framed, it has some pretty red wings.
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