My dear husband reminds me that Ylang Ylang is the correct spelling for the restaurant name in the last post. Silly me. It is also the correct spelling for the name of the flower and tree from which it comes. This gives me a chance to tell you about this flower and also add something that I omitted from the previous. We have several large ylang ylang trees near our house here that we planted. One of my favorite times of day is at about 3:30 when the flowers release their scent into the afternoon and early evening. It is intoxicating. The ylang-ylang is used by perfumers in very expensive perfume.
We also have stylized ylang-ylang painted on our wall in the house.
The other point that I wanted to mention was about restaurants here in Costa Rica. All restaurants wash all their dishes by hand. Can you imagine this in the US? We have a terrific fish restaurant at the foot of our mountain. They do pretty big volume for a local place. I glanced into the kitchen the other day and a man was standing at a sink washing dishes stacked four feet high. It looked like an old cartoon feature. People here are very hard-working.
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