Parque de La Reserva

Back in the United States, my Sundays consisted mainly of getting up and going to church, followed by a big brunch, and the usual Sunday cleaning of my entire apartment. This past Sunday, May 10th, however, I spent my hours- from the time I woke up, roughly 8 am, till about 10:00 pm- sitting at the corner of a wall far back in the restaurant we have next door. I've spent a lot of time at my personal imaginary cubicle actually; from sitting down there to avoid the slow wifi that everyone connects to at the same time in the common area and entering the virtual world we have yet to try and leave alone for this month away from home, to the extensive hours of researching about ancient Andean cultures and blogging about my days.

When lunch time came around, I did not even budge from my spot; instead, I ordered pizza so I conveniently did not have to stop writing to eat. After lunch and two shots of espresso ordered throughout the day, I was burning out by dinner time. Sadly, Michael and I were unable to participate in Joey's birthday festivities, so we made a quick break for dinner and went to Nova. There we shared a Maracuyá Mousse for desert that was heavenly and imidiately altered my mood. 

When we got back, we were told by Dr. Brown that we absolutely MUST go see the Parque de La Reserva. With a few more paragraphs to write, we decided that by the time the rest of the group got back we had to go check out these water fountain shows. 

By the time we walked in the park and I saw the first water fountain, I instantly forgot that I still had to revise my Geometry Paper; the view of the first water fountain was that of a rainbow, with multiple colors projecting from each row, it depicted the shape of a sine wave at half way oscillation, or at pi, 3.14. 

The next water fountain was of an enormous 4-D equilateral triangle, which shot water at equally spaced jets on all four sides which when looking at it straight on, these water intersected forming rhomboid shapes. The fitting name for this particular water fountain was, Fuente de la Armonía, Fountain of Harmony. Usually when I think of Harmony, I immidiately think music, and music is deeply intertwined with Mathematics so I thought what an interesting resemblance and was taken aback by this fountain. When I attempted to translate the Spanish plaque about this fountain, it read,

            "The fountain of Perfect Geometry represents harmonious feelings of beauty. This futuristic pyramid shape is formed by water jets that run parallel forming a beautiful pattern that crosses virtually and gives the source strength and harmony."

Needless to say, this little piece of information on a plaque made me stop and think of all the hidden beauty around me. This little reminder was kept in my head for the rest of the night and it was probably the driving force that made it seem okay to run through random bursts of grounded water jets and get completely soaked in 50 degree weather. 

Hope no one has a cold today..

Till next time,

Julie