covered by the clouds

so i am in La Fortuna, where the big bad volcan arenal is at. he's a shy guy. he always has a small cloud covering his top, so you can't see any spewing rocks or lava coming down the side. my hotel room has a great view though. this morning i woke up at 3am to leave with some people i met at the hostel and go see the other side of the volcano, it has a better view. we got to the other side and we had to walk down a trail to get to this really good viewing spot. BUT! the trail lead us to a river that we could cross and we ended up walking back to the taxi, from there though, we could see some flaming rocks falling from the cloud cover. i think i am going to stay here until i see a good view of arenal. hopefully within the next week, if not i might just go back, but i really want all these clouds to be blown away.